March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

ENGLISH 8

3rd QUARTER STARTS

Portfolios handed in.
New grammar packet. Due Friday. Maybe a quiz will follow.

Finish working on your personal oasis essay. Rough  draft due tomorrow. Final on Thursday. Today is quiet time.

While you are writing, writer’s conferences commence.

HW: Weds: Personal Oasis rough draft for peer edit
Thurs: Final Draft, Personal Oasis;  The Book Thief begins. If you have your own book, please bring it to school
Fri: Grammar Packet due. Quiz.

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About Me

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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