March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Thursday, April 21, 2016

ENGLISH 7
Thurs, April 21, 2016
Looked over poetry booklet models.
Reviewed project. Showed poems from books. 
Questions? Worktime.
HW: Tues: Rough draft of all poems
Thurs: Poetry Booklet
ENGLISH 8
Thurs, April 21, 2016
A Poetry Project model.

And try writing a poem, on your own:  A Sense Poem (handout, directions)

Today is  Poem In Your Pocket Day. Got a poem. Read it to yourself. Read it to another person. Figured out what it means, to you, at least. Walked around. Read it to another person. A couple of times. Put it in your pocket. Read it to someone else later today. Keep it if you want for your poetry project.


HW: FRI: RD Essay for poetry project.
Tues: Poetry project, essay and ready to recite


 Presenting/reciting favorite poems






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Sebastopol, CA
After many years as a newspaper reporter and writer, a job that I was lucky enough to love, I got my English teaching credential, hoping to pass on to kids how to find their unique voice and clearly communicate what they think and feel. Public school educated in Philadelphia, college in New York City (Barnard College), transferred to and graduated from UC Berkeley in English and received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. Yay, my son, my student in 8th grade, is now a Cal alumni, too, a 2017 graduate with a degree in computer science, now working at Google (You Tube) as a product manager. William Faulkner is one of my favorite writers, as well as Anne Lamott, Langston Hughes and many of the nighttime, satirical comedy shows. On my top bookshelf sit Nobel Prize winning writers Toni Morrison and Orhan Pamuk, along with friends who have won Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, who started writing in junior high or in writing groups in Sonoma County. Go public education in California!

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