March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

ENGLISH 7
Planners
New Mugs, Weeks 13 & 14 due Thursday.
Let’s talk about that ending.  With partners. Be prepared to share your comments with the rest of the class.
Then as a class.
Assess the literature circles -- Your work, the group’s work. Be thoughtful and specific. Hand it in. Be honest. Grade yourself. Grade your group. Individual comments confidential
HW: Thurs Mugs 13 & 14
Fri Spelling Week 13


ENGLISH 8
Biography speech assignment. Speeches start on Tuesday. Order of speakers chosen randomly.
To print (if not already), gather together and hand in as one set of papers:  your own panel discussion questions (you have already), the biopoem (just your part, not the directions), then the three bio checks--COMBINED on one page to hand in when you deliver your speech.

HW: Thurs: Brainstorm and rough out your biography speech. We will edit and revise
with peer support.
Mon.  Final Draft speech. The Hunger Games permission slip. Can turn in earlier
Tues: Biography Speeches begin.

Weds: The Hunger Games after school

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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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