Classes

I am teaching seven courses this year at Scholar Academy. If you have any specific questions about class activities or grades, feel free to message me or come see me after school Tuesday or Thursday between 3-4pm. If a different time is needed, please reach out so I can accommodate you.

Students will be able to …

❏ Identify the general topic and some basic information in both very familiar and everyday contexts by recognizing practiced or memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences in texts that are spoken, or written. 

❏ Communicate in spontaneous spoken or written conversations on both very familiar and everyday topics, using a variety of practiced or memorized words, phrases, simple sentences, and questions. 

❏ Present information on familiar and everyday topics using a variety of practiced or memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences through spoken or written language.

Students will be able to …

❏ Identify the general topic and some basic information in both very familiar and everyday contexts by recognizing practiced or memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences in texts that are spoken or written. 

❏ Communicate in spontaneous spoken, or written conversations on both very familiar and everyday topics, using a variety of practiced or memorized words, phrases, simple sentences, and questions. 

❏ Present information on both very familiar and everyday topics using a variety of practiced or memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences through spoken, or written language.

Students will be able to …

❏ Understand the main idea and some information on familiar topics from sentences and series of connected sentences within texts that are spoken or written. 

❏ Participate in spontaneous spoken or written conversations on familiar topics, creating sentences and series of sentences to ask and answer a variety of questions. 

❏ Communicate information, make presentations, and express thoughts about familiar topics, using sentences and series of connected sentences through spoken or written.

Journalism

Semester: Summer/Fall - Winter/Spring

Period: 3, 5

Students will be able to …

❏ Define and understand the purpose behind producing a yearbook.

❏ Create a publication that reflects who SACS students are and what they have accomplished throughout the school year.

❏ Collaborate and work cooperatively within time constraints (DEADLINES)

❏ Design aesthetically pleasing layouts: placing the dominant photo and subordinate photos; establishing an eye line; placing headlines, story copy and captions; properly using white space; and enhancing layouts with the use of graphics.

❏ Understand, practice, and learn skills for developing the unifying idea for the yearbook.

❏ Edit, proofread and evaluate their own and others’ work. 

❏ Understand and employ the ethical decisions inherent in making a yearbook.