March 23 and on--

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

ENGLISH 8


IOA essay handed in.

Began watching Spellbound, a movie about champion spellers.  
The documentary follows eight teens and pre-teens as they work their way from their homes toward the finals of the National Spelling Bee championship in Washington, DC in. All work hard and practice daily to win regional competitions. They face tremendous pressure as the original 250 competitors are whittled down and words get more difficult. We meet their families and the kids who are the children of professionals, working class and single parents; some children of immigrants; and all of them jazzed about their adventure.

HW: Thurs: Spelling Unit 8, context sentences and quiz.
Grammar worksheet, compound/complex sentences 
Mon: In-class RD Biography essay. Bring book with post-its and DEJs
 Weds: Final Project, biography: includes final draft of essay and book cover. 50 points.

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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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