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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

ENGLISH 7
A Christmas Carol Day 2
Check-in plot diagrams.
QW: Fred entered his Uncle Scrooge’s counting-house on Christmas Eve and cried in a cheerful voice “A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” Scrooge’s less cheery greeting was “Bah! Humbug!” Explain why Scrooge’s exact words, and not his nephew’s, have grown over the years into a well-remembered phrase? Do we tend to think of that phrase as something associated only with Christmas, or have we put it to use for other circumstances? What exactly do you think a humbug was (or is)? What is a current phrase that you believe to have the same meaning as “Bah! Humbug!” Do we use this phrase just during holidays, or are there other times? Give examples.
Take a quiz on Stave 1. Half the class will do even numbers, the other half odd. Wait for yours.
Listen to parts of Stave 2. Finish reading on your own and fill out whatever you can on  the plot diagram.
HW: Weds: Finish reading Stave 2
Thurs: Mugs
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ENGLISH 8
Quiz on Chapters 1 and 2. Separate piece of paper please.
Hand Out Chapter 3.
Listen to Chapter  3. An important one. Read and annotate.
On your own, work on questions for Chapter 3. Evens or odds. Wait for yours!

HW: Weds: Finish Chapter 3--read, annotate and fill out organizer for plot, characters, setting, theme, conflict and predict or / ask question. Make sure to do the complex text task.

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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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