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Thursday, November 3, 2016

ENGLISH 7
Mug check in. Five weeks of check-ins. 25 points. Handed in.

Handed in FD Seedfolks character paragraph with rough draft attached.

QW: What is the purpose of a rough draft? What is the purpose of a teacher’s comments on a rough draft? How or did I make use of the comments on a rough draft? Why did I? Why didn’t I?

Read, listen and annotate Leona and Sam. You choose which annotation.
Finish worksheet for homework on Leona and Sam.

HW: Fri: Spelling # 11,  homework on pg. 58 and 59. (Different than the usual.) And a quiz. Maybe. Leona and Sam worksheet questions.

ENGLISH 8
Completed and turned in thesis statement quiz.

Checked, briefly chatted biography speech ideas.
Essay work
Types of Thesis Statements-handout. With one partner, read over p. 45, 46 & 47
For homework, three (just three!) exercises to complete, p. 48 (read) and 49 (Do!)

HW: Friday: Do three (just three!) exercises on Writing Better Thesis Statements, p. 49
Monday: Final draft of speech, earlier if want feedback. (Use bio poem, 20 discussion Qs and biography check-ins to help)
Tuesday: Speeches start. Notecards--2 only, props and costumes ready.

Must hand in and be finished with written copy (final draft) of your speech.
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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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