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Monday, November 28, 2011

ENGLISH 8

Today we began The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, an American writer. Champion of the disenfranchised, the poor, the downtrodden. A Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner.


“It’s enough if a writer is honest, enormously talented, tells the truth, and has some stuff to say that, if people would pay attention, can affect their society for the better. John Steinbeck was one of those. What more do you need?” --Playwright Edward Albee


Video John Steinbeck. Took notes. We will review these, too.
 
Reading guide and questions for each chapter handed out on Tuesday.


HW: Weds: Read Chapter 1 of The Pearl and handout questions due
Thurs: Chapter 1 Pearl vocabulary worksheet due
Fri: Read Chapter 2 of The Pearl and handout questions due
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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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