Class policies:

• Attendance

  • • You are expected to be in attendance daily.  

    • If you are absent, it is YOUR responsibility to retrieve the work from either Google classroom, a peer, or TDS.  

    • You are expected to participate in class activities daily.

• Electronic Devices

  • • We will follow the district's policy on personal electronic devices.

• Assignment Expectations

  • • Work assigned for a grade is to be completed and turned in on time.  

    • Work turned in with empty spaces, unanswered questions, or half-way completed work will be returned to you for completion before it is scored and will be considered LATE WORK after one day (see policy below).

• Late work policy

  • • Late-work is not accepted. 

      • • This is a college-level course.  Due dates are due dates, just as in college.  Do your best to turn in work completed and on time.

        • This means you will need to stay on top of work in Classroom and in touch with TDS or your peers to know what must be accomplished while you are out of class.

        • If you have missed a TIMED WRITING - upon your return, it is YOUR responsibility to schedule an appropriate time to complete the writing with TDS.

• Re-take Policy

  • • Re-takes are not allowed.  

    • Your "test" scores are essays written in class or during a timed environment.  These scores are adjusted throughout the semester based upon your growth as a student writer.  

      • • Student receives a 70% on the first writing.  But, on the second, they receive 85%.  Both scores will then reflect 85%.

        • Student grades will not be retroactively penalized for a lower score on an assessment.

        • Student writing scores will adjust based upon the TYPE of writing:  Rhetorical, Argumentative, Synthesis.

        • Students must score 85% or above to adjust a previously lower score.

What to Expect from Me

• I update grades usually within days of a daily assignment or in-class work.  Essays take approximately two weeks to be graded and entered into the grade book.  

• I will do my best to explain, inform, and develop understanding of the ideas and activities we will pursue. Please ask questions if something does not make sense.  I am happy to explain & I'm sure someone else has the same question.

• Parent and student contact will be sent as needed. 

  • PLEASE READ:  Parent Letter Re: Timed Writing Scores 

CLASS LITERATURE

CONTROVERSIAL TEXTUAL CONTENT - provided by College Board (granter of AP Lang college credit)

Issues that might, from particular social, historical, or cultural viewpoints, be considered controversial, including references to ethnicities, nationalities, religions, races, dialects, gender, or class, may be addressed in texts that are appropriate for the AP English Language and Composition course.

Resources

Thesis Statement

Templates:  FOCUS on MOVES - not devices!

In (author’s) (format/title), the author (ACTIVE VERB) (the audience) (purpose) by Big Move (begin), Big Move (middle), and Big Move (end).

In [text title and occasion], [author]  [PURPOSE] by [HOW (rhetorical moves) HE/SHE DOES IT FIRST, SECOND, THIRD]. 

In {text title and occasion], [author] utilizes [specific rhetorical move] and [specific rhetorical move] in order to [PURPOSE] 

argument/synthesis