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Thursday, September 19, 2019

ENGLISH 7
Mugshots- check in and review. (Two of them!)  Handed in plot diagrams. Task -- In textbooks, completed questions 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6, all parts on p. 189. In notebooks. Complete sentences are required. When finished, there was time for other English homework.
HW: Friday: Spelling Unit 5, exercises 1-20 on p. 31 and a quiz. Novel check #2. You are two-thirds through novel  Make sure to have novel with you. 
ENGLISH 8
Graded the Speckled Band quiz.  Peer Evaluated Squeaky Paragraphs using supplied rubric.
Reviewed plot diagrams. Look at a model or two.
First - How to do a summary? Check this out. Take notes.
Second - Task--Write a five-paragraph plot summary of The Adventure of the Speckled Band. Make sure to name the main characters and cover the five stops along the plot line -- exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. The summary can be no longer than five paragraphs with five direct passages, properly explained and cited. 
This is classwork, done in your English class folder. Title it: Sherlock Holmes Summary. Turned in the plot diagrams to class basket at the end of the period. Make sure name on it.  Working individually. Will continue to work in class Friday. 

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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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