Materials/Resources

General

• First Semester Syllabus: Course Overview

• Back-To-School Night Presentation

• SAS Writing Reviser

• 3 Levels of Questioning

• Turnitin and Turnitin instructions/codes

• Easybib

• AHS subscription sites (you must be signed in to access)

• AHS subscription sites helpful instructions/passwords

• Ms. Leclaire's Revision Policy

• Opt In/Opt Out Policy

• Revision Policy

• Happiness Challenges

One-Minute Speeches

• Speech #1: Tour of a Good Place

• Speech #2: Scars

• Speech #3: I'm (Not) Afraid of...

• Speech #4: Phobias

• Speech #5: My Transcendental Experiment

• Self-Reflective Rubric

Unit #1: Personal Narratives

• Weekly rhythm

• Letter to Parents about Independent Reading

• Overview of the Personal Essay

• Bookmark and Reading Schedule Template

• Notebook Check #1

• Personal Essay Reflective Rubric

• All reading journals will be assigned and submitted in Google Classroom.

Unit #2: American Gothic

• Overview

• PDF of American Gothic texts

• Bookmark/reading schedule

• Fishbowl Overview

• Fishbowl Sign-Up

• Overview of One-Pager #2

• Notebook Check #2

Unit #3: Transcendentalism

• Overview of Transcendentalist book clubs

• PDF of in-class Transcendentalist texts

• Bookmark/reading schedule

• "My Transcendental Experiment" options

• Overview of One-Pager #3

• Notebook Check #3

Final Exam

• Overview, planning, and rubric: The final speech

• Helpful Screencastify Links

• The 2019 Rubric

• LINK YOUR PROJECTS HERE BY 4:00 PM THURSDAY, DEC 19

• Slides on "Honing Your Speech"

• One-Minute Speech Topics

• Good Advice on Public Speaking

Publishing Your Work

• 13 Stunning Places to Publish Student Art and Writing

• Wattpad

• The Concord Review

• TeenInk

• Figment

Test Preparation

• The New PSAT

• The New SAT

• SAT Tone Vocabulary

• 18 Grammar Rules You Must Know