March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Friday, May 20, 2016

English 7
May 20, 2016
Settled grade disputes. Highlighted your question and turned in for review.
Handed in completed worksheets A Long Walk To Water.

Previewed performance task for Monday’s SBAC testing.

“I overcame all the difficult situations of my past because of the hope and perseverance that I had. I would not have made it without these two things. To young people I would like to say: stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.”
--Salva Dut
Writing Choices:
1.Write about a time you decided to persevere and power through something, rather than quit. What did you learn? What happened? What are the details.
OR
2. Write a story with a character, your age, who perseveres and powers through something, rather than quits. What are the details of that journey? What did they learn?

 Leave what you started in basket and we will return to it on Monday. HW: OPEN HOUSE TONIGHT.

English 8
Friday, May 20, 2016 
LAST FRIDAY WORKDAY AT TWIN HILLS!
⌇⌇⌇  Preview performance task for Monday’s SBAC testing. Wait for instructions.
⌇⌇⌇  Settling grade disputes. Handed in your highlighted question and turned in for review.
⌇⌇⌇ Handed in DEJ # 3.
Partner (Circle) Write:
PROMPT: Someday I would like to stand on the moon, look down and say, “There is a beautiful earth out tonight.”
HW: OPEN HOUSE TONIGHT.


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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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