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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

ENGLISH 8


Handed in biography DEJ #1

We finished persuasive skits. Hopefully, we all saw how important it is to present arguments clearly, introducing your topic and finding supporting, concrete details and arguments to convince someone (your parents!) to say yes to what you want. Same principle applies in writing.  

Memory chain work. Think of that important person. Answer as many questions as you can from the worksheet. Write one paragraph on that person and you. If not done by the end of the period today, finish and hand in BOP tomorrow. Include the worksheet. 

Any quizzes or tests to be made up must be done by Thursday. Quarter ends on Friday.

HW: Weds: Grammar worksheet on adjectives and adverbs; important person paragraph if not finished in class.

Thurs: Spelling Unit 6,  Unit 6 is a review of 1-5. Do all the proofreading exercises that start on p. 34, through and including p. 37. Just write the words spelled correctly. There are 50 of them. You will be tested on 20 of the 50 words but have to know all 50.

Friday: Significant Impact paragraph
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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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