Week # 28 March 25-28, 2013
This week, we will postpone our regular readings and lessons to focus on the STAAR test. We will review the following:
Monday: Persuasive Essay
Tuesday: Expository Essay
Wednesday: Reading multiple choice and SAR questions
Thursday: Revising and Editing multiple choice questions
STAAR Test Schedule:
April 3 - Writing
April 4 - Reading
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English II Course Outline
Dear Students/Parents/Guardian,
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the school year 2012-2013 at
Thank you.
Norina S. Terry
CLASSROOM RULES
1. Be polite and use good manners.
2. Follow directions and complete work.
3. Raise hand before speaking or leaving seat/work station.
4. Bring materials to school and be ready to work.
5. Respect your own and other’s property.
Specific rules:
1. Be in class on time.
2. Keep your hands and your feet to yourself at all times.
3. Do not use vulgar or offensive language.
4. NO gum chewing in class.
5. Always take turns when speaking or when using a book or any material in class.
IF YOU CHOOSE TO BREAK A RULE:
First Offense: Verbal warning
Second Offense: Written warning
Third Offense: Parental Contact
Fourth Offense: Administrative Referral
Fifth Offense: Detention/Removal from class
*Late submission of work may not be accepted for daily grades. Deductions will be incurred for accepted late work: 15 points/percent on the first day, 25 points/percent on the 2nd day, 35 points/percent on the 3rd day, 50 points/percent on the 4th day, and zero on the 5th day. Any work not turned in after five days may not be accepted for a grade anymore.
*The student is responsible to ask the teacher for missed work after every absence occurs.
*The student can be allowed make-up work for every excused absence and may earn 100% replacing a low grade within 3-5 days, or as per student-teacher agreement from the day the student comes back from an absence. It is the student’s responsibility to ask for make-up work.
RECEIPT of Syllabus, Rules, and Regulations
Student: I have read the syllabus and class rules and I understand them perfectly. I will honor it while I am enrolled at Bellaire HS in Ms. Terry’s class.
Print Name: ________________________ Signature:
Parent/Guardian: My/Our child discussed the syllabus and class rules with us. I understand and will support them.
Print Name: ________________________ Signature:
Teacher: I will be fair and consistent in administering the lessons and this discipline plan for this SY 2011-12.
Print Name:______________________ Signature:
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ENGLISH II Syllabus
Course Description:
English II is a course that covers the elements of fiction and non-fiction, the parts of speech, and selected texts. The lessons will encompass a study of literary structure, literary devices, and interpretation of meaning through reading, learning through teamwork, analysis through writing, significance of culture and diversity, a time in American history, a Shakespearean play, and research writing.
Course Goals/Objectives:
Writing – Students will use the recursive writing process to write effectively in a variety of forms and will evaluate their own and others’ writings.
Speaking and Listening – Students will present informative, persuasive, and literary messages appropriate to the purpose and audience, and will listen attentively to and analyze and evaluate others’ presentations.
Viewing and Representing – Students will interpret, analyze, evaluate and produce visual representations.
Grading:
A = 90- 100
B = 80- 89
C = 75- 79
D = 70- 74
F = 69- below
Course Evaluations:
Major Grades (quiz/test) 50%
Daily Grades 40%
Homework / Participation 10%
Textbook(s):
Holt McDougall Literature
Class Projects/Activities:
Analytical essay and poem
Essay (personal, narrative, persuasive, etc.)
Video/Photo essay of a natural disaster
Research paper
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Resources:
Library
Internet
Houston Teacher’s Institute Curriculum Units
CDs/DVDs/VHS
Supplies Needed:
1. 1 1/2” Binder with 3 dividers/loose sheets of paper
2. 3 Composition notebooks
3. Pen and paper
4. Assigned textbook or novel
5. Handouts (provided by teacher)
Helpful Hints:
1. Read ahead of schedule.
2. Outline what was read.
3. Take notes.
4. Review notes on a regular basis.
Course Outline:
Fall Semester
Summer
Short Stories
“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
“Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury
“There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury
“Searching for Summer” by Joan Aiken
Other Short Stories we may read if time allows
“Two Friends” by Guy de Maupassant
“The Interlopers” by Saki
Poetry - TBA
Reading novel and a classical Greek Drama
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Antigone by Sophocles
Grammar/Syntax
Vocabulary: 10-15 words per week
STAAR preparation
Spring Semester
Night by Elie Wiesel
Julius Caesar, a tragedy by William Shakespeare
I Had Seen Castles by Cynthia Rylant
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SAT VOCABULARY FORMAT
Vocabulary Format
NIGHT by Elie Wiesel VOCAULARY
NIGHT by Elie Wiesel Vocabulary
prostrate
interlude
reprieve
rations
dysentery
robust
quarantine
apathy
humane
grimace
nocturnal
livid
pious
interminable
wizened
morale
infernal
refuge
oppressive
expelled
profoundly
ordeal
legacy
glacial
transcend
inmate
morbid
phenomenon
holocaust
abomination
interlocutor
crematoria
ghetto
relic
conflagration
constraints
hallucinating
colossus
floundering
ascertain
liberation
communal
wizened
vibration
confinement
audible
notorious
infirmary
automaton
inventory
charred
linger
accumulate
mauling
vitality
crematorium
fraction
liquidate
traumatize
legacy
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