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Monday, October 31, 2011

ENGLISH 8

Happy Halloween!

Finished up grammar card grading.


Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. Watched. Read along. Check it out  here.
Poe’s sad poem to the dead Lenore – a stand-in for his young wife who died, remember? A classic Halloween poem.

Thus insipired, we used the following words in a Quick Write, to create a spooky, moody Halloween fiction tale of no less than 100 words:
 * ghost
  * haunted mansion
  * eerie
  * goblin
  * costume
  * creepy
  * Halloween
  * candy
  * mask
  * trick-or-treat
  * party
  * full moon
  * spooky
  * monstrously
  * shriek 

HW: Tues: DEJ #3, Biography. Finished the book?


Tuesday:  in class, Finish work on fragments and run-ons and review.  Grammar review test.



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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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