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Monday, January 23, 2017

ENGLISH 7
PET PEEVE IDEAS--LINK HERE

 Finished Pet Peeve speeches, round 1.
Handout, Acknowledging Differences.


HW: Tuesday: Make sure you have read through Chapter 7, The Giver.


Re-do speeches. Tara, Becca, Julian, Patrick E, Kimi, Colt, Pat, Lucas, Juan Pablo, Aden, Devin, Harlow, Jesse, Ashley, Aiden. Must have a final draft to show me first,  and you are required to meet the two-minute minimum. Second chances are a good thing!
HW: Weds: Acknowledging Differences
Thursday. Mugs. Two of them.
Fri: Vocabulary quiz, Set 2. Pick 10 of the words and put in a context sentence.
ENGLISH 8
QW: On themes. Can you write a theme statement for The Pearl having to do with the following: greed, family, wealth, good vs. evil, man and the natural world, power, religion, dreams.
Write four of them as a theme statement, as on the worksheet.
REVIEW WORK -- grade quizzes,
Review/grade Friday’s quiz on Chapters 5 and 6. Absent? Take it.
Review Chapter 6 worksheet.
HW: Tues: Essay, in-class, timed.
Weds: Multiple Choice test -- What should you know for the test? Go over all your handouts. Have read the book! Make sure you understand and review the work we did at the beginning of the unit on Steinbeck--literary terms, cultural/historical background and John Steinbeck biography. If you read the book and kept up with notetaking, this will not be a difficult test

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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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