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Friday, September 27, 2019

ENGLISH 7
Completed Spelling homework and quiz, Unit 6. 


Novel check in- # 3. On a separate piece of paper to hand in. 
A letter to the author. Please say what you liked about the novel, with specific examples.
If you did not like something, write your criticism with tact and be constructive.
Make sure you comment on the main character as well as the ending.
Say whether or not you would recommend the novel to someone else.
Use proper letter writing form. Look in The Write Source, p. 151.
Do not address author by first name, but Mr. Ms. or Mrs.


Finished the prepositions.


ENGLISH 8
QW: Write who you think will win and why. Look over your list of kids. Remember who got knocked out already, so they can’t win!
Finished Spellbound.  ---
Where are the Spellbound contestants now? Try some words you’re supposed to know!
In notebooks. Ten words. 
Returning papers, Insanity Trial. Look over yours. Read comments.
What did you do well? What did you miss? File in portfolio. 
Checked in essay work.

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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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