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Welcome to English with Mrs. Lagan!Please use a card on your desk and complete
the following:
1. Your child’s name
2. Strengths you’d like me to note
3. Areas you’d like your child to improve
4. Any questions you may have
5. Best e-mail address to reach you.
Overview• This course essentially aims to encourage
students to become effective communicators in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Additionally, students are challenged to use critical thinking.
Assessment:• Grades are calculated as a percentage of
total points for the term, with larger assignments being worth more points.
• So, if there are 1,000 points available and a student earns 900, then the student will have 90% average.
Grading Policies: Homework
• Starts at 100%
• Drops 5% for each missed assignment
• No make-ups because we review it in class, and the student needs to be learning to be responsible for themselves.
Major Assessments• Tests, essays and large projects
• Typically = ~100pts
Minor Assessments
• Quizzes: vocabulary, grammar, and reading
• Graded classwork
• Typically = 10-50 pts.
• Absent= next day
Late work• - points each day. There will be a final cut-off
date.
• Detention possible if it is imperative that the assignment be completed.
Plagiarism• No tolerance policy
• All or part= zero
• No graded re-do
Class Reading/Novels (On-level)
• Short Stories
• Chernowitz!
• The Outsiders
• Old Yeller
• Poetry
Class reading/Novels (Above Level)
• Short Stories
• Non-fiction stories
• Tom Sawyer
• The Outsiders
• Poetry
Independent (“silent”) Reading
• Marking Period 1: Realistic and historical fiction
• Marking Period 2: Autobiographies and biographies
• Marking Period 3: Science fiction, adventure, fantasy, or mystery
• Marking Period 4: Free Choice
Writing• Open Ended Responses
• Explanatory Essay
• Expository Essay
• Narrative/Speculative Essay
• Persuasive/Argumentative Essay
• Poetry
Literary Elements• Elements of Plot
• Imagery
• Personification
• Conflict
• Foreshadowing
• Flashbacks
• Moral and theme
Grammar Through Reading/Writing
• Writing descriptively/Showing not tellingo adjectives, adverbs, verbso prepositional phrases
• Sentence Partso nouns and verbs
• Sound Sentenceso nouns and verbso prepositional phrases
• Varying Sentenceso Punctuationo Complex and compound
• Word Choiceo vocabulary building
