March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Friday, April 13, 2018

ENGLISH 7
Worktime, poetry
CHECK IN ROUGH DRAFTS-- Models?
Worked on some more poems
Rough drafts of all poems due Wednesday.
Final draft and final project with illustrations due Friday.
HW: Weds- RD all poems
Fri: Final draft, poetry project, with illustrations and cover.

ENGLISH 8
Listen The Word Shaker, p. 445


QW: What is the symbolism of the word shaker? What do the words represent?
Who is the word shaker? Why did the tree fall? Is the ending of The Word Shaker
sad, hopeful, bittersweet? Why? What did Max book reveal about the power of words?
How do words represent both beauty and evil? What is the message of
The Word Shaker? Where is Max?
Check in Parts 8 & 9. Complete WS.
Watch Some pointers (videos) on speeches. Click highlighted links to watch.
What NOT to do, a good speaker to emulate (mimic),  
notice how this speaker uses his notecard.    
And how can I enCOURAGE you on your speech, what good speakers look for.
Speeches will start on Tuesday, UNLESS YOU WANT TO do yours earlier
HW: Tuesday edited RD AND FD and ready to present

Weds -- Read Part 10 and Epilogue. Complete WS

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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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