March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

ENGLISH 7
Planner check and speeches. Fabulous start everyone.

HW: Thurs: Mugshots Week 1. Speeches continue.
Fri: Spelling Unit 2; exercises, p. 19, 1 through 20 and quiz on the 20 words.
ENGLISH 8         
Handed in Butcher/Thieves work to class basket
Edgar Allan Poe. Who he was and why we bother.  Handout. (I’ll read. Annotate while listening)
QW: Listen, read and predict. (Audio Link) 13 min +
Predicting what you read helps you engage and actively read a story. The Tell-Tale Heart is a very nearly perfect short story, with all the major elements of a story:
plot, character, setting, conflict.
HW: Thurs: The Tell-Tale Heart questions, p.528, in lit textbooks, 1-5, all parts. In your writer's notebooks. Pencil okay. The story is on p. 522.
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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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