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Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

ENGLISH 7
Reviewed quick write guidelines, handout yesterday.
QW: Advice from a 7th-grader. Read yours. React to it. What do you think about it? What will you do?
Diagnostic Writing Assignment, a writing sample based on the story.  RD due Wednesday. “Seventh Grade,” by Gary Soto. 
Background to the story Fresno, California “Seventh Grade” is set in Fresno, California, where Gary Soto grew up. Fresno is located southeast of San Francisco. Its dry, hot summers and cool, humid winters are excellent for growing grapes. A large number of Latinos, whose families are originally from Spanish-speaking countries, are employed in Fresno’s vineyards.

HW: Weds: Rough Draft--Me in 7th Grade
Planners checked
Thurs: Final draft, typed, Me in 7th grade; Back-to-School Night for parents
Fri: Spelling test and homework, Unit 1. Exercises 1-20 on p. 15. Then, a quiz on all the words in Unit 1.
ENGLISH 8
Syllabus quiz. Separate piece of paper, please.
MYSTERY NOVEL UNIT -- Time to look over and check out library books.
Chromebook log in, practice for timed essay benchmark, tomorrow.
Answer questions--me!
HW: Thurs: Back-to-School Night, parents only
Weds: 8/31: Mystery Novel
       
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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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