March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Essays: Best of three. From the following essays: Personal Oasis, 2nd in-class timed essay, compare/contrast Liesel & Max, you picked which one gets the big, 50-point grade. The other two you get 20/20 points, full credit. All three returned to me. With a note on what you are most interested in my looking at on the graded, 50-point one. You really can’t lose on this one.

Cats and Dogs compare contrast. Checked out the winning one!

Speeches. First up, a persuasive one. A spoken essay of sorts. For tonight's homework, make sure to pick and brainstorm an idea to base your persuasive speech on. You can select from my list of not-quite 50 ideas , or come up with one of your own. Choose something you care about, that is meaningful, funny, moving.
For help, go to p. 416 of literature textbook and pgs. 347-354 in The Write Source.We will work on speeches tomorrow, as well. Your idea is due Weds. Rough draft due Thursday. Speeches start Friday.

Public Speaking video. Watched some.

HW: Weds: 1/3 thru novel and Speech, choose a topic and brainstorm it. Bring that work in to class tomorrow. You will be writing a draft of your speech in essay form and will then write and present it.
Thurs: RD of speech
Fri: Speeches start. Will need a final, written draft
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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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