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Monday, August 27, 2012


Please bring in pictures of your pets for our classroom pet wall.





ENGLISH 8

QW: “Somewhere, something is waiting to be found. “ Use that prompt as the start of a story, or the end, or the middle, or whatever you want. 10 min. Use pen. Write the date and the prompt.

Got your three late slips. Not transferable.

On spelling, we will not do pretests in 8th grade. You are on your own. The homework and test will be on Thursdays.

Essay work, day 2. Finished up terms and filled in graphic organizer.

Started interview presentations. We will continue with these on Tuesday.
HW: Thurs: Spelling Unit 1, p. 15 exercises, 1-20 & test




ENGLISH 7

Completed Spelling pretest Unit #1

Peer-edited RD of diagnostic paragraph on you in 7th grade. Final draft due Tues, beginning of period. Peer editors must write their comments on a separate piece of paper. Peer edits are also graded. They include:
What was the writer’s anecdote?What personality trait did it show?Were there any mistakes in grammar, punctuation or spelling? Circle them on their paper. Make a suggested change if you have one.Name one thing the writer did well. Give one overall suggestion for improvement.Put your CB (corrected by) on the paper.

HW: Tues: 7th Grade Writing Assignment Final Draft. Peer edit and RD attached.
Weds: Planners & Notebooks
Thurs: Mugshot Week 1
Fri: Spell Unit 1, exercises, p. 15, 1-24  & test on Unit 1. Make sure to write each misspelled word 3x
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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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