March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Friday, August 17, 2018

ENGLISH 7
Finished snowball presentations -- our classmates. Read and review handouts:  syllabus/guidelines and expectations.
Review with parents. Tour room
Poetic Introduction (I Am Poem) of self, handout. The rough draft is due MON.

Homework: MONDAY: RD Poetic introduction of self AND parent signature on guidelines.
Tues- Final draft poetic introduction of self

ENGLISH 8
Handout, writing sample—your hopes and dreams in English this year.
 Due MONDAY.
Room tour
Handout and reviewed classroom guidelines & expectations
Mindset “quiz.” Take it. Score it. If time.

HW (Homework): MONDAY: Writing sample. Typed or ink only.
Mon: Signed guidelines and Writer’s Notebook

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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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