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Friday, October 21, 2011

ENGLISH 8

QW:  The mood of a story or passage is the general feeling it conveys. A story's mood might be tense in one passage and light in another. Use the sentence below as the first line of a story, and then create six different second sentences, each of which creates a different MOOD.
           Pierre sat quietly and stared out the window.

For example:
Pierre sat quietly and stared out the window. He watched as a meteor headed for his elementary school on the corner.

Pierre sat quietly and stared out the window. His girlfriend, Betsy, was walking hand-in-hand with Brian, his oldest friend in the world.

Peer edit significant impact paragraph. Use form.  Final draft due Monday.

HW: Mon: Final draft significant impact paragraph. Typed. Double space. Include RD and peer edit. Staple ahead please.
Bring work for grammar card classtime.
Tues: 10/25 Biography DEJ#2
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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