March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Oh, my. Was it our last full day of the school year? You bet it was.

ENGLISH 7
Seventh-graders graded the last test on The Call of the Wild and got a whole bunch of stuff to take home AND wrote a letter to themselves to read next year this time. (I'll save it and give it back to you. )


ENGLISH 8
Eighth-graders--oh, no, you're leaving?

Got last year's letter back. Turned in a letter written by you that I will send back to you in 2023 when you are just about to graduate from high school.
Did some fun impromptu speeches.

And you took a bit of work home. Whatever I did not get back to you shows up on Monday, in the gym, as we practice for graduation.

*********************************************************************************

Thanks for a  great year to all of you who keep me smiling and every now and then knowing I showed up in the right place.

--Ms Silver


at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Annie

Annie
National Dog Day

Contacts

msilver@twinhillsusd.org

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!

"Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction"

The digital revolution and teens, from the New York Times--
"Sean's favorite medium is video games...he sometimes wishes that his parents would force him to quit playing and study..."