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Monday, December 17, 2018

ENGLISH 7
Returned/filed rubrics for One-Pager
Discuss ending of A Christmas Carol.  Look over plot diagrams. Get summary.
Anticipation Guide -- get yours back. Now. Think again.
Partner work. Do only two questions in each section. Your choice.
HW (!): Tues: Be ready for a quiz on A Christmas Carol.
Weds: Secret Santa exchange and party-- Bring treats to share!

ENGLISH 8
Pop Spelling Quiz on No Excuses words.
Checked in lit textbook Qs in notebooks. Two stories
Watch Spellbound, an award-winning movie about champion spellers, that follows
eight teens as they work their way toward the finals of the National Spelling Bee
championship in Washington, DC. All work hard and practice daily to win
regional competitions and face tremendous pressure as the original 250 competitors
are whittled down and words get more difficult. They are the children of professionals,
working class and single parents; some children of immigrants; and all of them jazzed
about their adventure.
A movie about perseverance. Working hard for something you want to achieve.
Growth Mindset.  And resilience.
Because you will do some writing on it when it is over, be sure to take notes. Pay attention to where the eight students live, their ethnic and family characteristics.

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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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