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**Welcome to our English 11 Course Syllabus**

**Instructor: Audrey Holsten**

**Time and Place: B Period, Room 411B**

**Contact Information**  **Email: aholsten@capefearacademy.org**  **Phone: 297-4388**  **Office: Cameron 336 (in the Media Center)**


 * Reading List **

While we will read a wide array of shorter works throughout the year, we do have four long works that you are required to purchase for this class (in addition to summer reading). They are listed below.


 * The Crucible **


 * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest **


 * Their Eyes were Watching God **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Great Gatsby **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">**Course Policies** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">** Feedback and Assessment ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">The purpose of feedback is to let us know how we are doing with a particular skill, whether it is on the tennis courts, the stage, or in the classroom. We give and get feedback on how we are doing all the time, and I will do the same with your writing, reading, and oral expression. A grade will not always accompany my feedback, because sometimes we are still in the learning stages. __This is called formative assessment.__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">I'll also assess your skills toward the end of a unit or project in order to give you a sense of your progress. These letter grades will communicate your level of mastery of a particular skill at that time. __This type of assessment is called summative assessment__. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Summative Assessment Categories (You'll see these on your grade reports.) ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">Throughout the year, I will assess your skills in these areas, and your grade will be based on your performance in these categories:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Critical Reading (reading responses, comprehension checks)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Written Expression (formal essays, reflective paragraphs, journal responses, online blog posts)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Vocabulary Skills (vocabulary practice assessed both through quizzes and incorporating new words into your writing)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Oral Expression (oral presentations, class discussion, projects)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Collaboration (group participation, group work)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Your Success**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Every student has a chance to succeed in this course. Even if you don't love English or find writing and/or reading difficult, we will work together to help you make progress and hone these important skills.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">I will make myself available before school, after school, during flex activity periods, and at any other times to help you meet your learning goals.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">**Supplies**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">It would be helpful for you to have the following supplies for this course:


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;">Charged computer
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;">Earphones
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;">Notebook paper
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;">Binder
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;">Plenty of pens and pencils

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">**E-mail & Class Website**

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">Please check your e-mail as well as this website each day! This is our point of contact when you are away from school due to illness, trips, etc.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">**School Policies Relevant to this Class (Copied from the US Handbook)** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">** TARDINESS: ** Students are expected to arrive to their classes on time. Students reporting to class after the tardy bell for any reason must report to the Upper School office for a tardy slip before going to class. Failure to report is an Honor Code violation. <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">** LATE WORK ** : <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">o Major assignments (projects, essays, etc) handed in late will receive a 10% deduction for three school days. After three days, students will receive no credit. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">o Late homework will not be accepted. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">o Students who are at school but fail to take a test the day it is assigned will receive a 15% penalty and will be required to take the test the following day. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">o Under special circumstances such as illness, teachers may grant extensions. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**ABSENCES:**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Any student who is chronically absent from any class during a semester endangers his or her academic standing. If a student misses five classes in the same subject in the same semester, parents will be contacted. On the ninth absence in a class in a semester, the student will receive a five-point deduction in his/her semester grade. On the seventeenth absence in a class in a semester, the student will receive an additional ten-point deduction in his/her semester grade.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**ACADEMIC INTEGRITY**

The following activities are (obviously) strictly prohibited and will result in the consequences outlined below:

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">o Copying or aiding the copying of other students’ work such as homework or class projects: Student will receive a zero for that assignment or the relevant part of that assignment if the part can be clearly determined. A second instance of copying will likely result in expulsion.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">o Cheating on a quiz, test, examination, or committing plagiarism: Student will receive a zero for that assessment or the relevant part of that assessment if the part can be clearly determined. These honor offenses will be discussed with colleges if colleges ask. A second offense of this nature may result in expulsion.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 26px;">**ATHLETICS & CLASS COMMITMENTS** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">· Homework should be due the next day after an athletic contest (designated late or not). Each student is responsible for getting daily homework assignments before they leave. This is part of time management and planning ahead. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">· Each athlete must turn in all academic assignments due the day of a game before leaving school. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">· Each athlete must check with his or her teachers to get all assignments prior to dismissal and is responsible for completing the assignments made during his or her absence. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">· If a student athlete is going to miss a test because of early dismissal, he/she must take the test during a study hall prior to his/her dismissal. Only the faculty member teaching the class or the Upper School Director can make an exception. All tests must be completed by the date and time determined by that faculty member, or that student athlete will be suspended for the next game.