Please read the information below about what we are doing in class this week. I will update this site once a week.I have posted the course content list and expectations for each course I teach (Honors English III and English III). Please feel free to contact me via email (vhendricks@wcpss.net) or phone (870-4250).
Valerie Skinner Hendricks
*Students in 4th period will have a vocabulary quiz on list 8 on Friday.
*Students in 4th period are studying Ellen Foster. We are also working on preliminary work with the research paper.
*Students in 2nd and 3rd period are working on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. They will have a vocabulary quiz on lists 9-10 on Friday. They have also started working on the research paper and will be in the media center next week on Tuesday-Friday.
*Look for more information next week.
Course Expectations
Honors English III
Welcome to 11th grade honors English! I hope this course will prepare you for higher education and challenge you to become a thoughtful reader, writer, and person. I look forward to working with you and your parents/guardians!
Communication and Information:
• Appointments in room 125
• Email: vhendricks@wcpss.net
Phone: 870-4250
Academic Expectations: All work must be your own!
•Final copies of compositions must follow the rules of manuscript form.
•Notes and some other assignments may be completed in pencil. You must type major assignments.
•Refer to the LRHS Student Handbook for the policies regarding make up work.
•Requesting make up work is the STUDENT’S responsibility. Ask the class secretary, check announcements and materials in the classroom, or see me.
•Plagiarized work will result in a grade of “0” and one opportunity to re-do the assignment for the first offense. All plagiarized work after that will result in grades of “0.” I will notify parents/guardians of any incident involving plagiarism. I will involve school administrators in the event of repeated offenses.
Behavioral Expectations:
•Be in your seat and have materials ready when the tardy bell rings.
•Do not leave class without a pass from the teacher.
•Listen to the teacher, speaker, or any student who is addressing the class. Do not talk while someone else is talking or students are working quietly.
•Treat everyone with dignity, tolerance, and respect.
General Disciplinary Procedures:
•Consult the Leesville Road High School and Wake County Student Handbooks for specific policies/ procedures.
•If a student is tardy two times, he/she will serve an after-school detention
•Unexcused absences result in calls to parents/guardians.
•Other issues or habitual infractions will be handled appropriately.
Materials: Loose-leaf paper, Pencils, Black pens, Notebook (Composition Book, Folder, Binder, etc.)
Grading:
Major:50% Quiz:30% Daybooks: 15% Daily: 5%
Major grades: major compositions, tests, and projects; quiz grades: quizzes and shorter compositions/ assignments; daybooks; daily grades: practice exercises, enrichment/group activities, etc.
Course Content
Note: I have placed a X next to works we have started and/or finished.
Textbook: Literature: The Reader’s Choice, American Literature (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2000)
Novels:
XAdventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
X The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Ellen Foster (Kaye Gibbons)
* Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson)
*The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
*Book circle choices
Short Stories:
The Pit and the Pendulum (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Story of an Hour (Kate Chopin)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce)
Poetry:
X Success is Counted Sweetest and selected Dickinson poems (Emily Dickinson)
Song of Myself (Walt Whitman, Mending Wall (Robert Frost)
X The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Langston Hughes)
X I, Too (Langston Hughes)
X Prayer to the Pacific (Leslie M. Silko)
Nonfiction:
X How the World Was Made (James Mooney)
Xfrom The Iroquois Constitution (Dekanawida)
X Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson)
XNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass),
X From Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
X From Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau)
X From Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
X From Self Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
X From The Life of Olaudah Equiano (Olaudah Equiano)
X from Dust Tracks on a Road (Zora Neale Hurston)
Drama:
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
X Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
Films:
Pudd’n’head Wilson (Mark Twain)
X Berniece Bobs Her Hair (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
X Smoke Signals (Sheman Alexie)
Documentaries:
Mark Twain biography
X F. Scott Fitzgerald biography
X The Great Gatsby (Great Books)
X Frederick Douglass biography
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Great Books)
The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Great Books)
X Unchained Memories (slave narratives)
X The Works of Henry David Thoreau (Great Books)
Grammar/Vocabulary
Phrases and Clauses Pronoun Usage
Subject-Verb Agreement
Effective use of Parts of Speech Parallelism
MLA style
Vocabulary: Lessons 1-15 in Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT
Writing/Research
Writing assignments and instruction including
Personal Narrative Literary Analysis Informational Writing Creative Writing
Research: Inquiry-based research paper and presentation (We will prepare for this project by practicing research skills in the weeks leading up to the project. Throughout the semester, you will have an opportunity to start finding and evaluating sources on your topic.)
Daybook
You are expected to keep a daybook (spiral notebook, section in a binder or multi-subject notebook, composition book, etc.) You will have at least four daybook assignments per grading period. The average of these assignments counts for 15% of each quarter average. Daybook assignments will require you to use your notes, vocabulary lists, literature questions, and other activities completed and compiled in the daybooks. You will not be able to use other texts or the assistance of others on these assignments. The daybook assignments are unannounced to encourage you to keep up with your work. I will not directly check your daybook, but will check to make sure you are using your own daybook when you have a daybook assignment. In order to offer more incentive to keep up with notes and daily work, I will occasionally offer opportunities to use information in your daybook for test/quiz preparation. For example, you may be offered an opportunity to use your daybook as a reference during a quiz or to prepare a certain number of note cards to use on a test.
Course Expectations English III
Welcome to English III! I hope this course helps you develop as a student and as a well-rounded person. You will read great American literature, learn new words, refine your writing skills, and have some fun! I look forward to working with you and your parents/guardians!
Communication and Information:
• Appointments: in room 125
• Email: vhendricks@wcpss.net
Phone: 870-4250
Academic Expectations: All work must be your own!
•Final copies of compositions must comply with requirements in the English Handbook (online at www.leesville.org). Notes and some other assignments may be completed in pencil. Type major assignments.
•Requesting make up work is the STUDENT’S responsibility. Check the classroom for handouts, talk to the class secretary, or see me after class. See the make up work policy in your student handbook for more details.
•Plagiarized work will result in a grade of “0” and one opportunity to re-do the assignment for the first offense. All plagiarized work after that will result in grades of “0.” I will notify parents/guardians of any incident involving plagiarism. I will involve school administrators in the event of repeated offenses.
Behavioral Expectations:
•Be in your seat and have materials ready when the tardy bell rings.
•Do not leave class without a pass from the teacher.
•Listen to the teacher, speaker, or any student who is addressing the class. Do not talk while someone else is talking or students are working.
•Treat everyone with dignity, tolerance, and respect.
General Disciplinary Procedures:
•Consult the Leesville Road High School and Wake County Student Handbooks for specific policies/ procedures.
•If a student is tardy to class two time, he/she will serve an after-school detention
•Unexcused absences result in calls to parents/guardians.
•Other issues or habitual infractions will be handled appropriately.
Required Materials: Loose-leaf paper, Pencils, Black pens, Notebook (Composition book, Folder, Binder, etc.)
Grading:
Major:50% Quiz:30% Daybooks: 15% Daily: 5%
Major grades: major compositions, tests, and projects; quiz grades: quizzes and shorter compositions/ assignments; daybooks: instructions/criteria coming soon; daily grades: practice exercises, enrichment/group activities, etc.
Course Content
Note: I have put a X by each work we have started and/or finished.
Textbook: Literature: The Reader’s Choice, American Literature (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2000)
Novels: X The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson), X Ellen Foster Foster(Kaye Gibbons)
Short Stories: The Pit and the Pendulum (Edgar Allan Poe), An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce)
Poetry: Success is Counted Sweetest (Emily Dickinson), Mending Wall (Robert Frost), X The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Langston Hughes), X I,Too (Langston Hughes), X Prayer to the Pacific (Leslie M. Silko)
Nonfiction: X How the World was Made (James Moody), X Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson), X X Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass), X From Walden (Henry David Thoreau), X From Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau), X From Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson), From X Self Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson), X From Dust Tracks on a Road (Zora Neale Hurston)
Drama: The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
Films: X Smoke Signals (Sherman Alexie), The Tell Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe), X A Lesson Before Dying (Ernest Gaines)
Documentaries: X F. Scott Fitzgerald biography, X The Great Gatsby (Great Books), X Frederick Douglass biography, X Unchained Memories (slave narratives), The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Great Books), Grammar/Vocabulary
Phrases and Clauses Pronoun Usage Subject-Verb Agreement
Effective use of Parts of Speech MLA style
Vocabulary: Lessons 1-15 in Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT
Writing/Research
Writing assignments and instruction including
Personal Narrative Literary Analysis Informational Writing Creative Writing
Research: Inquiry-based research paper and presentation (We will prepare for this project by practicing research skills in the weeks leading up to the project. Throughout the semester, you will have an opportunity to start finding and evaluating sources on your topic.)
Daybook
You are expected to keep a daybook (spiral notebook, section in a binder or multi-subject notebook, composition book, etc.) You will have at least four daybook assignments per grading period. The average of these assignments counts for 15% of each quarter average. Daybook assignments will require you to use your notes, vocabulary lists, literature questions, and other activities completed and compiled in the daybooks. You will not be able to use other texts or the assistance of others on these assignments. The daybook assignments are unannounced to encourage you to keep up with your work. I will not directly check your daybook, but will check to make sure you are using your own daybook when you have a daybook assignment. In order to offer more incentive to keep up with notes and daily work, I will occasionally offer opportunities to use information in your daybook for test/quiz preparation. For example, you may be offered an opportunity to use your daybook as a reference during a quiz or to prepare a certain number of note cards to use on a test.
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