March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Monday, October 16, 2017

Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 17.
We will catch up. No worries. 


7th-graders -- Please make sure you bring your novels with you to class on Tuesday, as well as your writer's notebooks, planners and mugshots.



8th-graders -- Please make sure you bring The Hunger Games, your planning schedule so we can update and, of course, your writer's notebooks. (The revised schedule is linked if you would like to look ahead!) On Tuesday, we will review Chapter 6. By Wednesday, make sure you have read Chapters 7, 8 & 9, which finishes Part 1. Start reading Part 2.


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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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