Junior English

Mrs. Natalie Wilson & Ms. Laura Drew Holmes

Room 301

 

Classroom Rules:

  1. Always be respectful to your teacher, yourself, others, and the classroom environment.
  2. Follow and obey all school policies and procedures.
  3. Be in your seat when the bell rings.
  4. Always come to class prepared.
  5. Speak at appropriate times and in appropriate tones.

·        Raise your hand to be recognized before speaking.

·        Be quiet while another person is speaking.

 

Discipline Procedure:                                    Rewards:

          1.  Verbal warning                                         Verbal praise

          2.  Conference with me                                  Happy pass

          3.  Call to parents/Conference with               Positive call to parents              

               an administrator

          4.  Office referral

 

Required Materials:                                      Grading Scale:

F     0-69

Grade Breakdown:

          60%   Class work, Quizzes, Homework, Journal, Vocabulary, etc. 

          30%   Tests and Special Projects

          10%    Participation

 

English 3 Objectives

          This class will help prepare students for the TCAP writing assessment test.  This class is designed to teach the proper techniques for writing a persuasive paper.  During the class, students will learn how to better organize and coherently develop a persuasive argument, explain and/or illustrate key ideas, demonstrate syntactic variety, and write with few or no errors in mechanics, usage, and sentence structure.  Also, vocabulary is essential to this course because a stronger and broader vocabulary will assist in writing stronger papers and deepen your knowledge in general.  Furthermore, this class will cover works from major American authors.

 

Some other things you need to know:

  1. You may not leave the classroom for the first and last 15 minutes of class.
  2. Use blue or black ink only.
  3. NO cell phones.
  4. Clean up after yourself. 
  5. You will not be allowed in class without a stamped agenda if you are tardy or absent the class period before or without a “Permit to Enter Class” if you were checked out the day before. 
  6. You may not leave the classroom without your agenda book.  Once your hallway passport for that semester has been filled, then you will not be allowed to leave for any reason.
  7. At the end of class, do not leave until you are dismissed.

 

Expectations

Come to class prepared: paper, pencil, pen, books, notebook…

Come with a positive attitude.

Be respectful.

Try your best and ask questions.

If you do these things, we will have a great year.