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Thursday, September 20, 2012

ENGLISH 8

 Completed Spelling Unit 4. Exercises and quiz

Started new grammar unit, on homophones.

Essay work. Graded the last quiz. We will move on to the next part.

HW: Fri 9/21 Section 2 of your mystery novel
Hound:Read and complete questions for Chapters 7, 8, & 9
Chapter 8 has its own questions. It’s an important chapter.
Christie:Read and complete questions for Chapters 6-10*
Hardcover, pgs 60-121; paper
Mon 9/24: Final Draft Squeaky paragraph. Typed. Include RD for credit. Stapled ahead of time.


ENGLISH 7

Mugshot check-in and review Week 4

In your writer’s notebooks, in ink:
Quick Write--QW: What is your reaction to the way the other children treat Margot? What if you were Margot, what would you do? If you saw someone being treated like Margot, how could  you help her? Share a few.

Discussed questions at end of story, p. 271

Began character paragraph work for All Summer In A Day. Margot:
  • Describe Margot's character, his/her personality and behavior.
  • What role does she play in the story? What is her relationship to the other characters? How do her actions move or advance the plot of the story?
  • Describe any change that she undergoes during the course of the story. What does she learn?
  • Now, write one paragraph about Margot, a character study about her personality and behavior in the story, All Summer In a Day.
If not done in class today, will have time on Friday.

HW: Fri: Spelling Test and exercises, p. 27, 1-20. Write misspelled word three times. Show for credit.
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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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