March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

ENGLISH 7
Shared and turned in One-Pagers
Instructions for Writer’s Notebook, handout

Read and annotate the short story, Seventh Grade, by Gary Soto.  (Handout)
Finish reading and annotating. 
HW: Weds Finish annotation Seventh Grade
Friday: Spelling exercises p. 15, 1-20, in writer’s notebook. And a quiz.

ENGLISH 8
Library. Got literature textbook. Put name in ink inside cover. Take it home.

Personality Quiz. Add yours up. What does it mean? (Handout)
QW: Reaction to Personality Quiz. Does it make sense? 
What in that animal relates to you? What doesn’t fit. 
What did you learn about yourself from the quiz? Write and ponder for 5 to 10 minutes. 

With desk partner, share your reaction to both the mindset and the personality quizzes. 
Be prepared to share with the class afterwards. 

Interviewing each other. Desk partners. Handout. And discuss. 
Can write responses to interview questions in notebook or piece of paper.
HW: Weds--Finish interviewing desk partner. Get phone number to do tonight 
if not done in class! Don’t have to write the paragraph YET. 

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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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