Introduction to English III Mrs. Rachel Self, Teacher

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Introduction to English IIIMrs. Rachel Self,
Teacher
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Teacher Background

• Education
• High school
• Graduated 1991
• Aledo High School
• Aledo, Texas
• College
• Graduated 1995
• Texas Tech University
• Lubbock, Texas

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Teacher Background

• Teaching experience
• Eight years total
• Three years Lubbock, Texas
• Ninth grade
• Summer school tenth, eleventh, twelfth grades
• Five years Princeton, Texas
• Tenth grade (four years)
• Eleventh grade (one year)

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Personal Information

• 34 years old
• Married 13 years
• Husband Brad
• Employed at Texas Instruments, Richardson
• One son Daniel, age 6
• One daughter Natalie, age 3

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Personal Information

• Pets
• Dog
• Maggie
• Cat
• Monster
• Pot-bellied Pigs
• Daisy
• Porkchops

• Hobbies
• Reading
• Cross-stitching
• Shopping
• Member Faith Baptist Church
• College/Singles Sunday School Class Teacher

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What to Expect This Year

• Occasional homework
• TAKS Preparation
• Writing (to be published)
• Reading
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Select works by Edgar Allan Poe, Washington
  Irving, Thomas Jefferson, Tim OBrien, and others

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High Expectations

• Goals
• YOU WILL LEARN SOMETHING!
• Get credit for English III
• Preparation for TAKS test
• Be ready for senior English, college, and beyond
• Work hard
• Class is bell to bell
• YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL

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English III class is from BELL to BELL every
day.
Do not forget
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I Work For YOU!

• Taxes
• Paid by YOUR parents
• Pay my salary
• Empty desks NO JOB!
• Challenge GET YOUR MONEYS WORTH!!!

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I LOVE Princeton!

• Only place Ive ever worked/applied to work since
  moving to the area 8 years ago
• Taught many generations of PHS students
• Students here are down-to-earth

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Materials

• Bring pen/pencil (you may keep paper in your
  folder)
• Folder
• Folder provided by me
• Kept in drawer at front of room
• Folder Manager will give out each day
• Cover
• Name
• English III
• Period Number
• Classroom Rules
• Back cover
• Common Conventions Rules

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Rules and Procedures
Why have rules and procedures? Because I care
that YOU learn! Copy rules on your folder.
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Classroom Rules

• By the time the bell rings, be in your seat,
  backpack on the floor, with your starting class
  assignment for the day and something to write
  with on your desk

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Classroom Rules

• As soon as you hear the bell ring
• Stop talking
• Face the front
• Start working on the starting class assignment
  for the day
• Mondays Copy vocabulary
• Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays Language
  Practice
• Fridays Study vocabulary

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Classroom Rules

• Be POLITE
• No complaining put-downs or rude or negative
  comments toward Mrs. Self, other students, other
  teachers/faculty members, or yourself
• Including use of words or phrases such as shut
  up, sucks, fag, gay, etc., used in a
  derogatory way

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Classroom Rules

• Make quick, smooth transitions
• Do not distract others

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Classroom Rules

• Stay in your ASSIGNED SEAT until the bell rings
  at the end of class
• No uninvited talking
• Come to attention when you see me in the hot box
• This means no talking, facing the front, eyes on
  me (practice)

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Classroom Rules

• The following items should not be visible,
  audible, or smellible AT ANY TIME
• Food/drink
• iPods MP3 players cell phones cameras
• Makeup mirrors brushes/combs perfume/cologne
• Toys
• Any other items that are distracting and
  unnecessary for learning English/Language Arts

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Classroom Rules

• Keep your head up during active class time.

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Discipline Policy

• If you choose to disrupt class
• First infraction Wiggle
• I will say your name
• Second infraction Wave
• I will put an orange detention sheet on your desk
• You have all period to redeem yourself
• Third infraction Whack
• You will be assigned lunch detention
• Ten minutes at the start of your lunch before you
  eat/get your food
• If you cross the line
• Office referral
• If you do not serve lunch detention
• Office referral

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Procedure Tardies

• School policy
• Tardy 1st period, get admit slip from office
• Not in seat when bell rings tardy
• First tardy warning
• Second 15 minute detention after school on
  Tuesday
• Third 30 minute detention in classroom after
  school on Tuesday
• Fourth and beyond office referral
• Skip detention, receive parent phone call and
  doubled penalty

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Procedure Leaving the Room During Class Time

• Only TWO reasons to leave the room
• Restroom
• One Restroom Pass per six weeks
• Mrs. Copeland signs the pass
• Nurse
• No other leaving the room for any reason
• School policy
• Austin incident

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Procedure Make-up Work

• Ask make-up work manager
• Make-up work is YOUR responsibility!
• Two days for each missed day
• Make up quizzes/tests by appointment

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Procedure Late Work

• No Zero Policy
• If you do not turn in work
• Tutoring the following day
• Skip tutoring, receive detention
• Work still not turned in office referral

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Procedure When you finish early

• Large selection of
• Books
• Coloring books
• Word finds
• Avoid being disruptive!!
• Pick something and sit down
• Practice

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Classroom Scavenger Hunt

• How many trashcans are in this room?
• Where did your teacher go to college?
• How many boys are in this class?
• How many girls?
• What color is the top smiley face on the door
  window?
• How many windows are in this classroom?
• What is your English teachers name?
• What is the lady doing in the black-framed
  picture hanging at the front of the room?
• Name two animals that are on pictures/posters in
  the classroom.
• How many clocks are hanging on the walls?
• What color is the lamp?
• What colors are the stripes on the hat at the
  back of the room?

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Check Grades

• Some assignments will count as a check grade
• If the assignment is complete, it earns a check
• Only worth 25 points
• If the assignment is only partially complete, it
  earns a check minus
• Only 15 out of 25 points
• If the assignment is not turned in, it is a zero,
  and the No Zero policy applies

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Textbooks

• Kept on shelves
• Literature book
• On/under desks if we are using

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Extra Credit

• Box of Kleenex for classroom use
• Free 100 for daily grade
• One box limit per student
• Write name and class period on bottom of box in
  large, permanent letters
• Bring by Tuesday, September 4

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Help Wanted

• Position Folder Manager
• Duties
• Sit in first row
• Put folders on desks before class begins
• Collect folders at end of class and put in drawer
• Alert Mrs. Self to possible vandalism of folders
• Pay Exempt from one vocab quiz per six weeks

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Help Wanted

• Position Classroom Neatness Facilitator
• Duties
• Check the floor for trash at the end of each
  class
• Politely ask the person sitting nearest to the
  trash to pick it up
• Pay Exempt from one vocab quiz per six weeks

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Help Wanted

• Position Pencil Sharpener Manager
• Duties
• Sit near sharpener
• Students bring you their pencils to sharpen
• You wait for an opportune time to sharpen
• Return pencil to owner
• Pay Exempt from one vocab quiz per six weeks

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Help Wanted

• Vocabulary List Manager
• Duties
• Make Vocabulary List poster every week
• Staple to the wall
• Pay Exempt from one vocab quiz per six weeks

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Help Wanted

• Graded Paper Manager
• Duties
• Pass back graded papers
• If a person is absent, put his/her graded papers
  in his/her folder
• Do the above in a manner that is not disruptive
  or distracting
• Pay Exempt from one vocab quiz per six weeks

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Help Wanted

• Makeup Work Manager
• Duties
• Collect extra copies of handouts for people who
  are absent
• Provide your vocab list or notes for absentees to
  copy
• Tell absentees any assignments
• Do this at a time that is not disruptive
• Remember who was absent and give those people the
  stuff they need
• Pay Exempt from one vocab quiz per six weeks

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The 8 Parts of Speech

• NOUN- a person, place, thing, or idea
• Student, school, pencil, love
• PRONOUN-a word that replaces a noun
• He, she, they, I, we, someone, it
• VERB-action
• Run, think, swim
• ADVERB-modifies a verb, adjective, or other
  adverb often ends with ly
• Quickly happily frequently
• ADJECTIVE-describes a noun or pronoun
• Sad happy pretty handsome difficult

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The 8 Parts of Speech

• CONJUNCTION-combines words, phrases, or sentences
• And, but, or
• INTERJECTION-shows emotion (cuss words are most
  often used as interjections)
• Ouch! Yikes!
• PREPOSITIONS-anywhere a pig can go in relation to
  his trough
• Under over to beside

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Common Conventions Rules

• Alot is NOT a word!!!!!!!!!!!
• Semicolons () are used for joining sentences
• Put a comma before the conjunction (and, but, or)
  in a compound sentence
• Use end punctuation (. ! ?)

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Assignment Questions Over Rules and Procedures

• What is kept in the drawers at the front of the
  room?
• Where should you remain until the bell rings at
  the end of the period?
• What is the purpose of the EASY button?
• If you are absent, how do you get your make up
  work?
• What kind of food and drink is allowed in the
  room?
• What activity will you begin to work on upon
  entering the classroom on Mondays? Tuesdays?
  Fridays?
• You are tardy if you are not in your _______ when
  the bell rings.
• How many times may you leave class to go to the
  restroom each six weeks?
• What is Mrs. Selfs Wiggle?
• What is Mrs. Selfs Wave?
• What is Mrs. Selfs Whack?
• What is the policy for work not turned in?
• What must you do BEFORE the bell rings?
• What must you do AS SOON AS you hear the bell
  ring?
• We will work ____________ to ______________ every
  day.