March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Monday, March 5, 2012

ENGLISH 8

Women’s Project handouts. Discussed.

Graded Book Thief final test
Turned in books, if not already. Thank you if you have.

Nearly finished compare/contrast exercise on cat & dog. We will look over the model on Tuesday and see how you did. One last handout on compare/contrast. To keep for your files.
Please give Great Debaters note to parents. 

Last Friday, completed and turned in final draft of compare/contrast essay on Liesel and Max.

HW: Tues: Note to parents.
Weds: One-third through novel. Working on DEJs. Identifying social issues with post-its. Speech topic idea.
Thurs: Rough Draft speech
Fri: Speeches start. Volunteers?

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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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