March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Friday, January 11, 2019

ENGLISH 7
Completed Spelling #10 homework & quiz.
Handed in notebooks. Make sure name clearly on the cover.
Watched Twilight Zone version of The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street.
Completed Movie/Book comparison sheet-handout
Returned Pet Peeve speech rough draft. Many of you need to work on an interesting start and a grabber. Make sure to re-red the assignment and look for specific details that will make this interesting, funny, or specific. Will do peer work before final.  
HW--Weds: Pet Peeve speeches.
Thurs: Mugs, weeks 13 &14
Friday - Spelling Week 11
ENGLISH 8
Turned in portfolios to the bin at back table.
Watched John Steinbeck biography. Take notes in writer’s notebook.
Turned in notebook.
"It's enough if a writer is honest, enormously talented, tells the truth, and has some stuff to say that, if people would pay attention, can affect their society for the better. John Steinbeck was one of those. What more can you ask?"

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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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