March 23 and on--

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

ENGLISH 8






Today was National Poem-In-Your-Pocket Day. From the basket, selected a poem to share with friends, family or others. Read it to at least one classmate.
When the day is over, pasted in your writer’s notebook, and use it for a quick write.

Briefly discussed ideas for graduation speeches.

HW: Fri In-class, timed essay on Civil War novel. Bring your book. Turn it in!
Tues: Rough draft of speech
Thurs: May 3: Final Draft Thurs May 3.
Monday May 7: Speeches start
Mon, May 14: Speaker tryouts and selection


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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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