March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

 ENGLISH 7
Returned/filed papers.  
On your own, finish reading Chapter 40.
Handout-- Chapter questions . We will listen/read and stop now and then for you to write the answer. 
HW: Weds: Planner Check
Thurs: Mug shots-- Last week’s and this! 
Friday: Refugee quiz. Final set of questions due. 
ENGLISH 8
FYI - HG Final test was graded out of  104 points. Didn’t count symbols.
Turned in IOA. Stapled ahead with teacher-edited rough draft, graphic organizer and final draft.  
HW: Weds- Read one-third of biography. Be sure to bring book to class. 
Biographies at the movies -- He Named Me Malala-- film. Take notes in writer’s notebook. Look for key points.
Background: “My father was a teacher and ran a girls’ school in our village. I loved school. But everything changed when the Taliban (Islam extremists) took control of our town in Swat Valley (Pakistan). The extremists banned many things — like owning a television and playing music — and enforced harsh punishments for those who defied their orders. And they said girls could no longer go to school. I spoke out publicly on behalf of girls and our right to learn. And this made me a target. In 2012, on my way home from school, a masked gunman boarded my school bus and asked, ‘Who is Malala?’ He shot me on the left side of my head. I woke up 10 days later in a hospital in Birmingham, England. The doctors and nurses told me about the attack — and that people around the world were praying for my recovery. After months of surgery and rehabilitation, I joined my family at our new home in Great Britain. It was then I knew I had a choice: I could live a quiet life or I could make the most of this new life I had been given. I determined to continue my fight until every girl could go to school.”
"I am stronger than fear"--Malala

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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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