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Thursday, December 7, 2017

ENGLISH 7
If you do not want your copy of The Circuit, please donate to our classroom to share with others. Thanks.
Mug check-in and review.
Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez
Annotation levels 1, 2 & 3. Handout.
Annotate the first two chapters for Level 1, a blue pen.
Handout-- Use the Journal summary handouts for the first two chapters, similar to your reading journal writes from The Circuit.


Read Breaking Through. Two chapters. Annotate. “Forced Out” and “Home Alone.”


HW: Fri: First two chapters. Finish for homework.
Spelling Week 13. Exercises & quiz
ENGLISH 8 (The Hunger Games permission in basket if have)
  • Review (get) speech rubric
  • Check-in and work on rough draft. Share with a peer. Look for a great opening. Let’s talk about those.
  • How organized are you? It is key. Research/update. Did you use the library research links? You should.


  • Watch DVD on speech tips
HW: Monday: Final draft of speech. Presentation different than final draft.
(Use bio poem, 20 discussion Qs and biography check-ins to help). Practice with a peer. Rewrite.

Tuesday: Speeches start. Notecards--2 only. (Even if you are not in school on Monday, you may still have to do your speech on Tuesday, so be ready. The randomizer is in charge.)

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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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