March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Friday, March 30, 2012

ENGLISH 8

Movie Essay Assignment handed out and discussed. Check out your favorite movie this weekend. Something to do while it rains.

Finishing work on “The Lottery.”
QW: Your reaction to The Lottery. If you have seen or read The Hunger Games, write how it compares to it. Did you see similarities? Can you imagine something like this happening today? Why do you think this story has survived as a classic of the horror category (genre)?
Why are the townspeople holding the lottery? Why don’t they stop? Shared a few.

Lottery worksheet. With partners. Complete and hand in at the end of class.

HW: Mon: Women’s Novel project & essay and self-evaluation due. Absolutely no lates and, you know, no excuses!  
Tues: Rough Draft movie essay
Weds: Final draft movie essay
Thurs: A third through Civil War book. Three DEJ entries due.
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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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