Popular Literature

This is a highly independent course focusing on individualized reading. You will be reading, analyzing your reading for topics such as theme, symbolism, characterization, plot, setting, and structure. As you work independently on your reading and projects, you will also be practicing your computer literacy by creating and maintaining a google site that will serve as your portfolio for the course. 

You will be responsible for a total of 39 assignments this term.  They are made up of snapshots, projects, presentations, website posts, and blog posts.  We lay each assignment out, with proposed due dates, on a separate sheet of paper. 

1) A planner/organizer

2) Notebook

3) Pens and pencils. 

4) Binder to keep work/notes in

5) Highlighters

6) Chromebook

All students are to adhere to rules and expectations set by the Pittsville Student Handbook. In addition:

1) Students must arrive to class on time every day ready to give their best effort. This means having all materials as well as a good attitude.

 2) Students have 2 days after an excused absence to make up work.  Once that time has passed, and for all other late work, students must fill out a “late work request” form.

3) Make-up tests will be offered to students who fill out the “re-teach, re-do, re-take request” form and complete all necessary components.

4) Cheating will not be tolerated.  This includes plagiarism. Cheating/plagiarizing will result in having to re-do the assignment as well as disciplinary action.

5) Students are expected to be respectful of all people, spaces, and materials.

6) It is the expectation (with very few exceptions) that your cell phone is not being used/ is away during class time. If a cell phone is out, you will be assigned a place to put your cell phone at the beginning of every class thereafter. 

Snapshots (writing)………………………………...…………….20%

Projects…………………………………………………...……….20%

Presentations (speaking)……………………………...….……..20%

Website Uploads (technical processing)……………………….20%

Blog Posts (journal).....................………….…………………....20%

93 – 100 A 80 – 82 B- 67 – 69 D+

90 – 92 A- 77 – 79 C+ 63 – 66 D

87 – 89 B+ 73 – 76 C 60 – 62 D-

 83 – 86 B 70 – 72 C- Below 60 F 

RL.1 - Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain

RL.2 - Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.  

RL.3 - Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed)

RL. 4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.)

RL.5 - Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact. 

RL.6 - Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).

W.4 - . Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 

W.5 - With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed

W.6 - Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.