The Morgan School
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Junior Honors English- Mrs. Chausse
The expectations and assessment tools used to evaluate student performance are designed to reinforce The Morgan School Academic Expectations and student responsibilities. Please carefully read and become familiar with the challenges and expectations presented in this course syllabus.
Teacher: Leslie Chausse Date: 2011-2012
Credits: Year Course / 1 credit
Textbook: Short story selections, poetry, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Poisonwood Bible, Mourning Becomes Electra, Medea, The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Beloved, A Doll’s House, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Streetcar Named Desire, transcendentalism selections, novel choice selection
Required Materials:
· A folder for all English handouts and assignment sheets
· A notebook
· A blue or black pen
· Post it notes and tabs
Academic Expectations (AE):
The Morgan High School student:
· AE1: Uses standard English to read, write, and speak effectively
· AE2: Communicates and receives information through oral, written, visual, artistic, and technical means of expression
· AE4: Utilizes critical and creative thinking skills for problem solving and decision-making
· AE5: Employs tools of technology to research, process, and communicate information
· AE6: Works independently as well as cooperatively to achieve goals
Civic and Social Expectation:
The Morgan High School student:
· Develops a healthy lifestyle that promotes individual wellness
· Demonstrates appropriate social behavior, including integrity, respect, and self discipline
· Demonstrates civic and global responsibility
· Respects individual, cultural, and racial diversity
Course Overview:
Students refine their reading and writing skills through the study or American Literature.
Attendance/Missed Assignments:
· Homework assignments with links to worksheets and websites are on my class wiki.
http://chausseclasses.wikispaces.com/
· Late homework assignments will receive a zero.
· When absent, you are responsible for missed assignments. Consult the wiki. Email me.
· I do not administer make up quizzes on vocabulary. You are responsible for all vocabulary words. All words may appear on the midyear and final exam.
· If you are absent on a day that you are an assigned expert for the reading assignment, you will not receive credit for leading the discussion.
· Students cannot make up reading quizzes. If a student misses several reading quizzes, he or she may need to complete an alternative assignment.
Homework Policy:
· Carefully read all assignments by the assigned due dates. Usually I will give out a reading schedule for the assigned work. Always expect a reading quiz. The quizzes will be very specific designed to encourage close reading of the work. Scoring a 100 on the reading quiz will require you to take notes on the assigned reading. Absent students must keep up with the reading assignment. Consult the class wiki or email me if you have questions on the assignments.
· Any written assignments on the reading should be word-processed. If you are absent the day the assignment is due, you must email the assignment to me on the due date:
· Word-process all writing assignments.
· If you have a printing issue, you must have the issue resolved by the beginning of class. The computer in the back of the room is a student computer. You may come in before school begins to print out your work from your memory stick. You may also come in during a study or lunch provided the computer is not in use by a student in my class. In an emergency, I will a print out a paper which appears in my email inbox when I arrive at school. The paper will be in your class slot or on the printer tray.
· WORK PRINTED DURING CLASS is LATE.
· Upload all writing assignments to Google Docs and your class wiki space. Label each assignment with the date and title.
· Enroll in our class on turnitin.com. Submit papers to this site by the due date. Failing to submit a paper to turnitin.com will earn a grade of zero.
Grading:
· I will grade on a point system
Quizzes: usually 20-30 points
Homework and class participation: 5-20 points
Tests, major papers and projects: 100 points
· Final grade is total points earned divided by total possible points
Honesty & Academic Integrity
Cheating, plagiarism, or falsification (lying) of any kind will not be tolerated.
Students are cheating if they:
· Copy or allow to be copied any assignment by any method
· Use any unauthorized aid on quizzes, tests, or exams
· Steal, possess or view a copy of a test beforehand
· Give or receive help on a test
· Take someone else’s work and submit it as their own
· Scan, alter or forge any school document
· Plagiarize, i.e. submit material written or designed by another without giving the author/creator credit or identifying the source; or submit work created by family, friends or tutors.
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