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Friday, November 17, 2017


Eighth-grade and 7th-grade parents--Ask your student about what they wrote in their notebooks on Friday. I am sure they would be happy to share it during the holiday dinner. Have a great holiday!

 ENGLISH 7
Spelling -- Checked in homework. Happy Thanksgiving. No quiz
QW: Write: What do I care about this Thanksgiving? Do I care only about myself? Do I care about others? Why might it be important to care and take care of myself before I worry about others? What does it mean to be thankful?
FILL AT LEAST ONE PAGE IN YOUR NOTEBOOK.
Come up with examples to show what you are thinking about, to make your point. Be writers and communicators.
Thanksgiving fill in the blank….and learn a little…
Have a great Thanksgiving week.


ENGLISH 8
Eighth-graders and 8th-grade parents. Ask your student about the following work below. They have it in their notebooks and would be happy to share what they wrote! Have a great holiday!
QW: A different kind of writing, in your notebooks
  1. Create one list -- what you are thankful or grateful for
  2. Create a second list --  a list of your own personal needs
  3. Create a third list -- a list of your own personal wants
  4. Now, pretend you are someone else. Pretend you live in a foreign country, that your family is poor, that girls are not allowed to go to school past the age of 7, and that your village is under siege by warring factions.  What then are you grateful for. What are your needs? What are your wants?
  5. Respond --Are people’s needs really much different? Why might people’s needs be different?
Fill at least one page in your notebooks, NOT skipping every other line and NOT writing in huge letters, respond to the following:
Your ideas will be shared in a list for the 8th grade so everyone can see it.
 
Share more  turkey essays.  Share each others. In a group of 3. Pick the best one. Do not remove the labels or peek! If  time, will share with the class -- or when we come back OR take it to your Thanksgiving dinner and read it. Only after dessert!

AND HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING BREAK!
Mon 11/27 -- Complete two-thirds of biography
Fri 12/01 Finish biography

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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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