Mrs. Voight
Rocky River High School
English Language Arts: Academic 10 & Honors 10
Do the best you can until you know better.
Then when you know better, do better. - Maya Angelou
Important Dates:
First day of school: Tuesday, August 22
Picture day: Friday, August 25
Click here for a calendar of "National ___ Days."
“If I don’t apply kindness in my voice, patience in my process and a peace in my spirit, chances are the things that I will do will prevent that growth from maximizing its potential."
-"Garden Marcus" Bridgewater
REQUIRED MATERIALS – BRING THESE EVERY DAY
1. You will need a 3-ring binder to organize your handouts. Academic students: you’ll need 5 divider tabs (honors needs 4) labeled as--
Warm ups
AOWs (Article of the Week) (Academic only)
Grammar/Vocabulary
Reference
Unit # (After each unit, you’ll recycle what you don’t need and “archive” under Reference the documents you should keep so you can refer to them later.)
2. Some loose leaf paper--just a small chunk that you can replenish throughout the year as needed.
3. Some post-its--just a small chunk you can cut into strips to mark passages in the texts we read.
4. Pencils: we write daily!
5. Your school planner to record assignments
For information about class rules and procedures including mobile devices, class procedures, and grading, click on Class Expectations button below.
Guiding Principles for Success
Be self-aware.
Treat everyone with respect.
Listen actively and attentively.
Use your resources.
Always try.
ACHIEVE 3000
Achieve 3000 is a computer-based reading program that reaches every student at their own level. You will receive reading materials that are not too easy nor too difficult, but are at just the right level to help increase your literacy skills.
You’ll complete a lexile level set (ungraded reading test) early 1st quarter which generates a lexile number that corresponds to your reading comprehension skill level. Please give this level set your best effort. You’ll complete a mid-year and final level assessment, as well, so you can see how much your reading skills are growing.
In Achieve, you will complete reading “activities” (these may include a pre-reading poll, multiple choice questions, short response, and post reading poll). The target score on the first try of the multiple choice questions is 75%. Once you start scoring 88% and 100% consistently, Achieve moves you to the next reading band to help stretch your skills; these adjustments will occur throughout the year.You may score lower when this adjustment first happens, and that is okay! This push upwards helps you to continue to grow as readers.
We do not use Achieve 3000 to penalize students in Gradebook for their reading levels. You will earn points for your completion and effort on the “first try” of activities.
To better understand what your score means in terms of college and career readiness, click here.
SHOCKING GRAMMAR NEWS
"Sorry, grammar nerds. The singular ‘they’ has been declared Word of the Year." Click here for the full article from the Washington Post, January 8, 2016.
NEED A DISTRACTION?
10 Bizarre Things That Somehow Have Words
Words added to the dictionary-September 2019
"Word Crimes" by Weird Al Yankovic (paradoy of Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines")
Isn't it ironic? Not really. Check out the redo of Alanis Morissette's 1996 song "Ironic," which, ironically, does not contain irony. Two sisters rewrote it to get it right.