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Monday, November 14, 2011

ENGLISH 7


Spell 12 pretest

Returned Thursday’s quick write on Sam.
Returned Personal Narratives.
          Some really good ones. Lots of effort and very nicely presented.  Read one that was a great one -- lots of action, details, and showed why the incident (surfing) was important to the writer.
          Next time, keep in mind: Details. You need them. But you do not need every single one of them. Get and use your peer edits. Include rough drafts.
          On a scrap piece of paper, wrote what was said on your personal narrative. Looked over the checks on the grading rubric. Wrote what you will work on for your next piece of writing.

Finished discussing Leona and Sam and Robert Frost poem.
Began reading out loud Virgil and Sae Young. We will continue on Tuesday.


HW:
       Tues: Curtis/Nora handouts and read those chapters
       Weds: Planner Check
       Thurs: Maricela, Amir and Florence chapters and handout. Finish book.    Mugshot.
       Fri: Spelling Unit 12, a review of Units 7 through 11. And exercises, pgs.60, 61, 62: proofread. Write the mispelled word correctly. Word list on p.60.

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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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