freshman english

Course Description:

California English 9 v2.0 is a completely re-designed course that offers alignment to the California Common Core State Standards for English and Language Arts & Literacy. In addition to an emphasis on alignment, the redesigned lessons are designed based on a clear thematic connection and build upon each other ensuring that standards are scaffolded and covered multiple times going deeper with each lesson. Texts in this course are diverse, authentic, complex, and rich in length. Students encounter texts multiple times over the course of a unit digging deeper in theme and focus standards. Each lesson follows a clear instructional model mirroring that of the traditional tier-one lesson cycle: warm-up, direct teach with modeling, guided practice, independent practice, and closure. Instructional best practices are embedded throughout lessons such as close reading, modeling, and chunking. Features to support student mastery included guided notes and graphic organizers. Scaffolding pieces, such as Clarifying Big Ideas (CBI) lessons are included throughout the course to provide learners with opportunities to build on foundational skills as well as prepare for greater success by drawing learners’ attention to common misunderstandings and articulating the big ideas that underpin learning. These CBI lessons include additional modeling, student examples, and detailed explanations to ensure students internalize key concepts discussed in tutorials.

Basic Information:

These are semester classes completed over approximately 18 weeks
With a passing grade, you will earn 5 High School Units.

Curriculum:

Edmentum Courseware - found through Clever or the Google App Selector (must be logged into school Google account)
Google Classroom is where most essays and projects will be done.

Policies and Expectations

Behavior and communication

Mr. Everhart and his students will use language that is appropriate for a professional and academic setting. This includes all written and spoken communication (e.g. email messages, Zoom conferences).
Email is best after the school day and during weekends.

How are grades calculated?

Grades are calculated based on total points earned divided by total points possible.

What happens with transfer grades?

If joining the class with a transfer grade: The work from your previous class or previous school will count for this class based on the number of weeks since the semester began. I will let you know how much work to do that will represent the rest of the semester.
If joining the class without a transfer grade: You will need to do the entire semester's amount with the amount of time left in the semester.

Late work policy

This class is part of the Virtual instruction Program and is asynchronous. Work flow and due dates are flexible with the exception of a general start and end of the semester.
Completing work early is encouraged. Completing work late does not cost you any points in the grade book. Work not completed by the end of the semester will be scored a zero.
There are assignments that must be completed before you move on to the next unit or sub-unit.

Can I "redo" assignments?

Quizzes may be retaken if you got an F the first time through. If you fail a quiz a second time you will have to have a short study meeting with your teacher before trying a third time.
On projects and writing tasks, you may improve your work based on teacher comments for a better score. If your work has not reached D level, you will be required to make improvements before moving on to the next assignment.

Extra Credit

Extra Credit is not a part of this class. If you are predicting that your grade may not be what you think you deserve, work with me to improve past assignments for additional points.

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