March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Friday, March 16, 2012

ENGLISH 8

We finished the speeches. You all did amazing work. Thoughtful, compassionate, passionate, intelligent, funny, interesting. At least one of those, if not more!  Be thinking about graduation speeches. They start sooner then you think.
If you got your speech grade back, please file in your portfolio or remember to bring back after vacation.

We finished The Great Debaters. It was amazing. I hope you picked up some pointers and ideas on how to do your next speech. We may write about it after vacation.

Speaking of vacation.....

Your book is finished and you will have interviewed your three women so that you can show me on Monday when you come back. Then we will start the rough draft of the essay. The final project is due on Thursday, March 29, and there will be no late passes.

On you return, it is the first day of your last quarter at Twin Hills and middle school. So enjoy your vacation, have a great conversation with a couple of women. And see you soon!
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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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