March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Monday, April 24, 2017

ENGLISH 7
Share poetry pair/share work from Thursday. Five minutes to prepare
Everyone get a textbook.
Hand in rough drafts of poems.
Finish work for final, due Wednesday. NO CHROMEBOOKS TODAY.
ENGLISH 8
Returned The Book Thief final assignment. Check out the rubric!
Last stanza:
Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us
we find poems. Check your garage, the odd sock
in your drawer, the person you almost like, but not quite.
And let me know.
QW: What do you like about the poem? What stands out to you? What don’t you understand? Would you recommend it to others? Would you read other poetry by Nye? Why or why not?
Models, poetry project,
Share/ peer-evaluate rough draft of essay for poetry project.
Worktime, poetry project
HW: Weds: Final poetry project due, with essay and ready to recite and present poem

Fri: Civil War novel choice due. Novel in hand?

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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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