Utica High School

Utica High School

Resource Room English

Mrs. Drumm (263)

Course Description

Resource Room English extends the student’s proficiency in the basic skills of reading comprehension and writing.

Grading Policy

Each student’s grade will be determined by using a total point system. Each assignment will be given a point value and the student’s grade will be based on the following percentages.

Grading Scale:

90 – 100 = A

80 – 89 = B

70 – 79 = C

60 – 69 = D

0 – 59 = F

Class Rules:

Be Respectful

Be Prepared

Be on time

Be Attentive

*School rules will be enforced*

Class Procedures

1. Place assignments in the class tray when turning them in for a grade.

2. Focus during class discussion, take notes, and work on assignments when time is provided.

3. Mrs. Drumm dismisses the class, not the bell.

Attendance

Tardiness: Students are expected to arrive on time for class. A student who has been tardy to class for a third time in a grading period will receive a lunch detention and will be reported to the office. The fourth tardy receives a Wednesday detention. A fifth tardy in a grading period receives a referral to the office for a Saturday School, In-School Suspension, or Suspension.

Absences: Make up work due to an excused absence must be made up promptly. The time allotted for makeup work shall not exceed one day more than the period of absence. It is the responsibility of the student to arrange for and to complete the necessary work. Work missed through truancy or unexcused absence cannot be accepted for credit.

Cheating

*Cheating includes: plagiarism, copying someone else's work or allowing

someone to copy your work.

* First offense receives a zero on the assignment, quizor test.

* Second Offense will be reported to the office and disciplinary action will take

place.

Denial of Credit Policy

* Full-year course: Any student who accumulates more than sixteen (16)

incidents per class of non-professional absences in a year-long course, excused

or unexcused will receive a zero (0) for that class period, for that day and every

day in excess of the sixteen (16) days.

Course Materials

Spring Board: English Language Arts

Study Island

Reading Plus

Course Outline

Students will be reading various types of print throughout the year. Emphasis will be placed on the following skills while working on the assigned readings, as well as answering questions and completing writing assignments related to the comprehension of the material being presented.

August /

• Brigance testing for reading and writing levels

September /

• SLO pretest, plot chart, point of view

October /

• OGT Retakes , internal and external conflict, antagonist, protagonist, tone, suspense

November /

• Simile, metaphor, alliteration, hyperbole, personification

December /

• Imagery, verbal irony, dramatic irony, situational irony

January /

• Allusion, soliloquy

February /

• English Parrc tests (Performance Based) connotation, denotation

March /

• SPRING OGTs , thesis, dialect

April /

• English Parrc tests (End of Year)

May /

• End of year review, 4th 9 weeks’ test