March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

ENGLISH 8

Speeches continued. If you are not ready on your day you get a zero on the speech.
If you switch, your are still obligated for your day if that person does not show up for class and is not ready. So, be careful who you switch with!

Watched more of The Great Debaters. Chapters:
Melvin Tolson’s Debate Team; The Pig Farmer, (watch for language); Practicing Debate Training (explains where word lynching comes from); Tolson the Labor Organizer

HW: Fri. Finish novel. Over vacation, finish novel and begin interviewing women on social issues raised in your novel.
Ready on Weds: Jackson, Dalton, Meg, Maddie; Dante Mari, Ariel, Kayja;  Justin, Celia, Jacob, Johnnie;  Matthew, Hannah, Katie, Heidi, Maren



Friday: Wacky clothing day. (Dress Code applies)

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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!

"Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction"

The digital revolution and teens, from the New York Times--
"Sean's favorite medium is video games...he sometimes wishes that his parents would force him to quit playing and study..."