March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Monday, April 23, 2018


ENGLISH 7
QW (on paper to hand in) A small task--Write to me about your voice.
What would help me to know about you and speaking in class, on being heard?
by others. What helps you to speak up?
What prevents you from being heard?
No grading. No judgment. Just info. Thanks.


Poetry spillover from Friday. In textbook --
Read poems on pages 363, 364, 365, 366 and 369. Complete the questions that
follow each poem.

Start The Call of the Wild. Pre-reading handout to complete for homework.

HW: Tues: Pre-read on The Call of the Wild
Thurs--Poem-In-Your-Pocket day. Look for your favorite to share
ENGLISH 8
Last of the speeches completed. Absent folk must come in at break to complete.
QW: Poetry. Listen/Write/respond to one of these poems.
What do they mean? Or how do you feel after reading/hearing it?
Listen to a few and then write:
Why poetry, by former NEA chair Dana Goia, a poet, writer,
Sonoma County writer.
Hamlet, excerpts, difference voices. Shakespeare (online, site above)
Dream Deferred,  Langston Hughes (online, site above)
Fire and Ice by Robert Frost, read by N. Scott Momaday

HW: Tues:Worktime for The Book Thief. Bring work to do!
Weds- Final Project, The Book Thief. Return Books.
Thurs- Poem-In-Your-Pocket day. Look for your favorite to share

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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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