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Friday, October 14, 2011

ENGLISH 8

Finished correcting Pronoun quiz. For more help on pronouns, checked out Grammar Girl, here.

Grammar checked in, verbs. And lie and lay. Troublesome ones. Sometimes you just have to memorize.
"You lie down on the sofa. But you lay the book down on the table, Lay it on me. You lay something down, and people lie down by themselves." You just have to memorize this or look it up.

Persuasion skits to be continued on Monday.

HW: Tues: Oct. 18 DEJ #1 for biography, five direct passages and explanation on the influences (or obstacles) in your subject’s life. Read at least one third of your book
Coming Up:
Ø    Tues: Oct: 25 Two-thirds through book and DEJ#2
Ø    Fri: Oct. 28: Grammar Card Deck due
Ø    Tues: Nov. 1: Finish biography and 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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