March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

ENGLISH 7

Novel Assignment. To be discussed on Tuesday. Start looking for books!

Finished speeches and returned rubrics.
QW: In Writer's Notebooks--Please write for five minutes. Reflect on your speech. How did you feel when you were delivering it? Did you think you were prepared? Were you nervous? Do you think you have gotten better at it? What do you wish you had done differently? What did you see in other speeches by your fellow students that interested you -- either something you would want to do yourself or you learned about them.
Classwork-- Read “Two Kinds,” by Amy Tan on p. 17 in purple literature textbooks from the side bookcase.
HW: Weds: Complete reading "Two Kinds” by Amy Tan in literature textbook, p. 17. And Planner Check.
Thurs: Mugshot Week Two; grammar packet on parts of speech.
Fri: Novel choice due. Spelling exercises, pg. 23, 1-20 and quiz, Unit 3


ENGLISH 8
QW: Write a dialogue that the police officers might have with the murderer in “The Tell-Tale Heart” just after the officers' arrival at the house. Feel free to invent some details, but keep the characterization of the murderer consistent with the way he is portrayed in the story.

Library card forms. Get one and return to me by Thursday.


Return “The Butcher” File in portfolios in back. Alphabetically by last name.
Grade Poe quiz. Absent on Friday? Take it.


The TTTH  (The Tell-Tale Heart) plot diagram work. With a partner, or by yourself. Complete plot diagram with direct passages, five total, one for each stop on the plot line.
Use handout plot diagrams or follow online link to download another!
HW: Weds--Finish plot diagram.Expect quiz on TTTH tomorrow
Thurs: Return library card forms

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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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