March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Thursday, May 24, 2012
ENGLISH 8  
Welcome! Your last class day at Twin Hills! Congratulations. We have had a terrific year together, lots of work, a few laughs, I hope, and ready to take on the high school world.
A few things:
Everyone clear out stuff if not @Open House tonight. If you are coming, take home your things after you show them to your parents. Your stuff on walls, too. Please give your parents a tour—what we did, what you did.
 Return letter to selves written last year. Look it over. Keep it. File it in your portfolio!
Then write, advice to next year’s 8th graders. Just one bit, something you’d like to help calm the jitters on the first day of school. Please make it positive, things to do, not to do.
Listen to The Book Thief soundtracks while you watch a slideshow of you at Twin Hills, this year and last. Have fun!

HW: Thurs (tonight) Open House. See you tonight!
Fri: Reward Trip and Olympic Awards
GRAD NITE
Tues/Weds Grad Practice and GRADUATION
Thurs: Day on the Green. Last day of middle school!
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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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