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Thursday, April 7, 2016

EnGLISH 7
Thurs April 7, 2016
Finish group discussion of Chapters 5 & 6. Make sure your discussion work is complete. You can turn in your activity tomorrow. You must change roles in the group and change activities. And vocabulary--which will also be on Friday’s quiz!
HW: Fri:  Complete Chapters 5 & 6 and activity. Expect a quiz on Chapters 5 & 6. Quiz will include vocabulary work and questions on all of the words you researched for all chapters of the book,. So make sure you understand and know those vocabulary words and can pick them out used correctly and in a context sentence.

ENGLISH 8--Thurs April 7, 2016
In 1997, 18,000 Americans wrote to the project to volunteer to share their favorite poems, speaking about their favorites. People ranging in age from 5 to 97 -- kids, teachers, Supreme Court justices, blue collar workers -- submitted. From that, more than 50 were chosen.
Poetry is universal. Poetry is choice. Poetry is individual.
Here are a few:
Watch and listen and write.
Poems: We Real Cool (Gwendolyn Brooks), The Sloth (Theodore Roethke), Out Out (Robert Frost), I Am Nobody (Emily Dickinson), Minstrel Man (Langston Hughes)
Lighter-- Harry Baker on Love of Math, Prime Numbers and Poetry


QW: “We Real Cool” the Gwendolyn Brooks poem. React, respond. Or, react/respond to any of the other poems from today. (If time.)
For homework, listen to at least three other presentations and poems from the Favorite Poems Project website. You will present your “findings” or reactions in front of the class.
HW: Fri: Listen to other poems on the Favorite Poems website, or read others on Poetry 180, The Poetry Foundation. Academy of American Poets,  
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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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