CP ENGLISH 11 SYLLABUS Berry/McGinnis/Hickman

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CP ENGLISH 11 SYLLABUSBerry/McGinnis/Hickman

• Please read the following syllabus and sign the
  last page to turn in to Mrs. Berry, Ms. McGinnis
  or Ms. Hickman by August 29th.

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CP ENGLISH 11 SYLLABUS

• Required Materials
• Paper, pencil, pen, highlighter, three-ring
  binder, notebook, novels (when applicable

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Class Rules

• Be respectful of others at all times.
• Clear water bottles are the only beverages
  permitted. You may also bring snacks to class, if
  necessary, but make sure you pick up your own
  trash. If trash/mess becomes an issue, I will
  have to ban all food items.
• Cell phones ARE NOT ALLOWED IN CLASS! Please keep
  your phones and mp3 players in your backpacks at
  all times. If this becomes a problem, I will
  confiscate your phones until the end of the day,
  or, if I must warn students more than once, I
  will issue a detention. applicable)

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Grading

• All grades will come from summative assessments
  only. This will come in the form of tests,
  quizzes, speeches, projects, presentations, and
  writing assignments.
• Grades will be weighted as follows
• -Summative Assessments 85 (tests, vocabulary
  quizzes, large essays, and other
• large cumulative assessments, etc.)
• -Fundamentals 15 (reading quizzes, class work,
  etc.)
• -Formative Assessments 0 (drafting, pre-writing,
  vocab. practice, grammar
• practice, and other practice assignments)

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Homework and Classwork Policy

• Some assignments are purely formative and will
  not be graded however, if you want to have the
  option to re-take a major summative assessment at
  the end of each unit, you will need to have
  received satisfactory scores and completed all
  assignments leading up to that assessment in
  order to qualify for the re-take option.

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Absence Work and Missing Work

• You have up to, but no more than, two weeks to
  turn in a missed assignment or to complete
  make-up work during the nine weeks however no
  work will be accepted after the nine weeks in
  which it was given. If your missing or make-up
  work is a major summative assessment,
  (test/quiz/etc.) you MUST see me to schedule a
  time to make this up with me. If you miss the
  scheduled time (which is now called intervention)
  you will not be allowed to make up the work.
  These extensions do not apply to the following
  assignments formal presentations, reading
  assignments, speeches, major cumulative reading
  and writing projects

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Attendance

• While students are not penalized for missing
  class, generally speaking, students who miss many
  days have lower grades than their peers who
  attend regularly. It is important to remember
  that, while I can help to catch you up on missed
  work, it will not be the same thing as attending
  class and being actively engaged in a full lesson.

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Plagiarism

• Plagiarism is a serious offense. Students will
  learn at the beginning of the year what is and
  what is not plagiarism and how to avoid
  committing it. Any student who is caught cheating
  or plagiarizing will be referred to the Dean of
  Students. The work in question will be entered
  into Progressbook as missing until their
  academic intervention is resolved and the student
  goes before the Academic Dishonesty Committee.
  Finally, parent(s)/guardian(s) will be contacted
  about this serious infraction.

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Curriculum

• This year, we will be incorporating The Hunger
  Games and dystopian literature into our
  curriculum! Our yearlong theme will focus on
  society, and we will connect all of our major
  literature to issues we see in society. The first
  semester we will devote to non-fiction texts
  discussing issues in race and gender, while the
  second semester we will delve into fictional
  texts that involve religion and class.
• With all of these complex issues in mind, we will
  write in many forms and genres, including, but
  not limited to persuasive essays, research
  papers, letters, presentations, speeches, and
  personal narratives.

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Curriculum

• We will also add two other elements this year
  book groups and a society project. Second
  semester, you will be assigned into groups of
  five. Each group will then choose one of five
  books it would like to investigate. Your group
  will complete different activities for your
  chosen book throughout the year, and during
  fourth quarter, you will create (or recreate) the
  society in your book. Elements for this project
  include
•     -Constitution
•     -Bill of Rights
•     -Declaration of Independence
•     -virtual or physical 3D map
•     -critical lens of the society (group paper)
•     -flag
•     -ethnic costumes
•     -national anthem
•     -PowerPoint presentation with group members
• It is important that you work hard throughout the
  year in this class, because your grades will
  determine if you are part of WMHS second-annual
  Hunger Games!

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The Hunger Games

• Few pieces of contemporary literature capture the
  spirit of dystopia quite like The Hunger Games.
  Details to come.

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Major Works DYSTOPIAN TEXTS

• Some of the major works we will examine this year
  include excerpts from The Autobiography of
  Malcom X, Much Ado About Nothing, The Kite
  Runner, and a choice dystopian text at the end of
  the year.
• include, but are not limited to Fahrenheit
  451(Bradbury) WWZ (Brooks) Handmaid's Tale
  (Atwood) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  (Dick) 1984 (Orwell) Feed (Anderson) and The
  Road (McCarthy)

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CP ENGLISH 11 Berry/McGinnis/Hickman

• Welcome to CP English 11 We are excited about
  the possibilities of this class and our students!