March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Thursday, October 26, 2017

ENGLISH 7
Mugs checked in. Reviewed on Friday.
Vocabulary and grammar work with a partner, or on your own. Handout.

 In class, read   “The Melting Pot” by Anna Quindlen, in lit text, p. 122.
The story deals with different ethnic and cultural groups of people in the same neighborhood -- just like our own world. It is an essay written by an award-winning newspaper writer, Anna Quindlen.
Homework for Friday --  Complete reading  “The Melting Pot” by Anna Quindlen, in lit text, p. 122.  
HW: Fri: Spelling Week 8, exercises and ready for quiz.
Finish The Melting Pot.
Please bring in book money for The Circuit if not already. Thanks!

ENGLISH 8
MY Personal Oasis, worksheet and writing IN CLASS today
First part is with a partner. On the second side, you are on your own. When fill out boxes, begin work on a rough draft of your personal oasis essay. This is a personal essay where you can and should use "I."
Hand in rough draft and worksheet at the end of the period. You will get more time to do the final draft.

HW: Finish reading through Chapter 22
No Excuses test -- postponed from Thursday.
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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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