March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Thursday, October 11, 2012
ENGLISH 8
 Checked in your list of 20 words. Easy points.
Graded mystery novel final quiz. 

Essay work. Remember that? Handouts. Worked on catchy titles, you know, catching someone's attention, making it interesting? A little competition going between classes.
 Best titles so far--First one about books and television, the second one about how to change a tire:  

Hit The Books Or Hit The Remote   and   Pop It Pump It Move It

HW: Fri RD Demons Project
Mon: Biography due
Tues: Final Draft Demons Project
Weds: Demons/No Excuses spelling test. (Know all 80!)

ENGLISH 7
Mugshot Week 7 not in packet, so we worked on it from the overhead. We will start with mugshot week 8 next Thursday

Continued work on paragraphs. Shared paragraphs written from peers’ topic sentences and got to work on topic sentences from paragraphs. The quest continues on Friday.

HW: Fri: Spelling Unit 7. Exercises, p.41, 1-20 and quiz. Remember to write your misspelled word three times
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About Me

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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