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Thursday, April 20, 2017

ENGLISH 7  Thursday April 20, 2017


Check/return rough drafts.
Pair/share poetry exercise. Get literature textbook and partners.
We will share on Friday.
HW: Mon: Rough draft of all poems
Weds: Final Poetry Booklet

ENGLISH 8   
Use that site to explore for your poems. The words and the audio/video.


Watch this video on the Everglades.
Look at this poem by Campbell McGrath.
Read it silently. Write down what you notice in the poem, including all the words, phrases, and structures that stand out.
Then, we will read it aloud -- one person.
HW: Friday: Rough draft of essay for poetry project. Target date. Time in class to do work -- poem paragraphs and essay.
Weds: Final poetry project due, with essay and ready to recite and present poem.

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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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