March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Checked in memory chain questions and important person paragraphs. Now, you are writing that as an essay paragraph. You will be using your work on memory chain and your important person paragraph to write one paragraph on someone who has had a significant impact on you.

The prompt: Describe a person who has had a significant impact on you. Include your relationship and impact on you.

The person can be a family member or a friend. This paragraph will be essay style. The concrete details will be those anecdotes or memories you came up with.  (Anecdote means a short account of a particular incident or event, often amusing often biographical.)

Label parts: TS, CD1, CM1 and CM2, CD2, CM 3 AND 4, C. Rough draft due Friday. To be peer-edited, followed by your final, typed draft next week


HW: Thurs: Spelling Unit 6, a review of 1-5, Proofreading exercises, pgs. 34 through 37, and test.
 Any quizzes or tests to be made up must be done by Thursday
Fri: RD Significant Impact essay paragraph
Quarter ends. Unused late passes turn-in

Coming up next week: Mon: FD Significant Impact Paragraph, essay style
Tues: 10/25 Biography DEJ#2
Weds.: Final draft, significant impact paragraph:
Fri: 10/28 Grammar Card Deck
Tues: 11/01 Biography DEJ #3

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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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