March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Friday, February 2, 2018

Thanks, parents, for Teacher Appreciation goodies.
Much appreciated!
ENGLISH 7
Completed & graded quiz on Chapters 12 through 18.
Got two late passes for 3rd Quarter
Day 2-- About Climate Control --Long ago, the community had decided to deal with some of the natural forces of nature by eliminating them, what the Giver called Climate Control. • What natural forces did Climate Control eliminate? • What do you imagine the community chose as its standard “temperature” and/or “weather”? Explain your choices.
• How do we deal with these things? Explain how they can sometimes be problematic and sometimes beneficial.
Handout--Natural Habitats
ENGLISH 8
“Hope is the thing with feathers/ That perches in the soul/ And sings the tune without the words/ And never stops - at all”
-- From a poem by Emily Dickinson that perhaps describes the last sentence of Chapter 3.
Reflect on it. How is it that Kino and Juana are now beginning the day with HOPE?
Chapter 3 worksheet.
Work with one partner. Use your templates and your books. “Defend” means support with examples.
Finish by the end of period?
Turn in all your Chapter 3 work -- the worksheet, the template and today's worksheet, even if you did not finish.


HW: Tues: Complete reading Chapter  4. Complete template for that chapter and keep up with post-its.

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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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