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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

ENGLISH 7
Day 2, The Circuit --Discussing Chapters 1, 2 & 3

Definition: A migrant farmworker is defined as an individual who is required to be absent from a permanent place of residence for the purpose of seeking remunerated employment inagricultural work. “Migrant farmworkers” are also called “migratory agricultural workers” or “mobile workers”.
QW: (10 min) In your notebooks. On Migrant workers--consider some of the following questions-- (5 write- 5 discuss)
What is a migrant? What words come to mind when you think about migrants?
What do you know about migrants?What do migrants do (migrant workers, migrant students, etc.)What are some of the struggles that migrants face?
Are any of you migrants or do you know people who are migrants?What is the difference between a migrant and an immigrant?What similarities do migrants and immigrants have?What differences do they have?What struggles do they both encounter?
Lit Circles meet. Go over your own Qs. Here are some additional ones. Give different roles for tonight’s homework.  (20 minutes) Checked in homework for 20 points.

Now, on your own, QW: How would you react if you couldn’t speak your first language and were physically punished when you spoke it?  How did Francisco react? (Relates to Chapter 3 Inside Out)
HW: Weds: 1- Read Chapters 4-5 (Miracle in Tent City, El Angel del Oro), pages 27-50. 2-Write in your Reading Journal. 3-Complete  your Literature Circle role.

Planner check
Thurs: Mugs ; Fri -- Spelling  a review of 7 through 11, proofreading exercise on pgs 60, 61, 62, 63. Words with no sound clue, related words, words with -ty, -ity and -tion endings, irregular plurals, and plural or possessive
ENGLISH 8
QW: “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” --from The Diary of Anne Frank, the Dutch teen whose writing was published after her death in a Nazi concentration camp. Think about this. For you, for the person you are reading. Write--whatever comes to mind. Required -- Fill one page in your notebook.  (6 minutes)

IOA Essay Models
Check in and review RD IOA essay. Peer edit.
Hand in for credit & feedback (Not optional!)
Returned tomorrow, Weds.
Work time, if time. Read your biography. Must be finished by Friday.

HW: Weds: 11/28-- RD Returned. Must do a self-edit form (supplied)
Fri 12/01-- Final copy due; Finish biography

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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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