March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

ENGLISH 8

Handed in Your Choice Civil War assignment after sharing it with others.


Discussed upcoming graduation speeches. Pick a topic. Have it ready tomorrow.
Returning: Favorite poems. Many of those will have built-in prompts for you to use in your speech because you have already chosen them as your favorite and explained what they mean to you.

HW: Thurs: Tomorrow is National Poem-In-Your-Pocket Day. Put one in your pocket if you have one. Find one here: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/409
Speech- Brainstorm speech ideas and develop topics (I’ll check these tomorrow.)


HW: Thurs: Topic for speech


Mon 4/30: Brainstorm for speech
Tues5/01: Rough Draft Speech (Peer edit in class)
Thurs5/03: Final Draft speech
Mon 5/07 Speeches start
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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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