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Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Monday, January 9, 2017

WELCOME BACK AND HAPPY 2017!

 ENGLISH 7
Seedfolks work returned and filed in portfolios.
QW: Write down what you want to accomplish this year, this semester. What are some of your resolutions? For school, for yourself, for anyone else. Be thoughtful! Write for at least five minutes and one page in your notebooks.
Pre-reading activity on The Giver by Lois Lowry. Books tomorrow.
After complete the pre-reading, write one paragraph on the back detailing why you feel the way you do about one or more of the items on the list. Hand that in.

 Handout-- Pet Peeve speech assignment. List of ideas link here.
HW: Tuesday: Come up with three ideas for a speech on your pet peeve.
Fri:  Second quarter ends. Unused late slips due.

 ENGLISH 8
Graded work returned. Read over and filed in  portfolios.

 Resolutions. A handout, a list,  some writing and some thought.
Using the worksheet, take an  inventory of yourself write things you want to accomplish, want to avoid, in particular, in English class, if  you can. These  can be both serious and/or funny. Make sure to complete  the other side as well. Those should be handed in.

 The Pearl -- Get copy of Chapter 5. Annotate and do a worksheet as  done for the other chapters. 

 Coming up on Tuesday-First Semester Portfolio Assignment.
HW: Tues: Read and completed worksheet and annotation on Chapter 5 of The Pearl
Fri: Second quarter ends. Unused late slips due.
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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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