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Monday, December 5, 2011

ENGLISH 8 Book Fair All Week in MUR



Completed surprise, short-answer quiz on Chapter 3. You can use your book.


Chapter 3 questions on desk for check-in.

Let’s listen to and then write from the opening paragraph of Chapter 3.

QW:   A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns, so that there are no two towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences.
Now, think about how this might apply to the town you live in or how it applies to our school. How is Twin Hills like a place separate and distinct from other schools? What distinguishes it? What is the Twin Hills personality? Does news travel fast? Does gossip trap you and define you? How do you combat gossip, especially in this Facebook era of easy and sometimes malicious gossip?

HW: Tues: Read Chapter 4 and complete questions for Tuesday.
Thurs:  1st Response Due
Fri: Read Ch. 5 and Questions due


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Sebastopol, CA
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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