CP ENGLISH III

 

2014-2015

 

Mrs. Dee McDowell

 

TEXTS:

 PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE: The American Experience

ALSO: various novels and a set vocabulary book 

Full course syllabus available at Back-To-School Night or upon request

WEBSITE:

http://websites.pdesas.org/dmcdowell/

SUPPLIES:

 

How you choose to organize yourself is up to you.Junior year is about becoming independent and getting ready for college expectations. Writing paper and a pencil are absolutely necessary for class each day.

ASSIGNMENTS:

 

1. Do them and don't complain. The are listed on my white board and updated on my website weekly.   2. Do them on time   3. Choose not to do #1 and #2 and elicit NO sympathy from me. No make-ups for small homework assignments.

ESSAYS:

 

1. A HARD COPY is due on the due date-NOT via email, usb, or after school. Anything not turned in that day IN CLASS is LATE.

 

2. Do not come to me the day of a due date with a sob story. Problem solve. If your printer is not working be prepared to have it done early so you can copy it elsewhere. ABSOLUTELY NO HANDWRITTEN PAPERS-technology is everywhere-see me if you are having a personal issue, just do not wait until something is due.

 

3. 1 day late= 10% off

 

    2 days late= 30% off

 

    3 days late= 50% off

 

After three days, I do not need to accept a paper. This is all department policy.

 4. RESEARCH PAPER-over the years, some students are absent on the day that this large paper is due. Unless your parent emails me specifics, if you are absent on the day the research paper is due, I MUST receive an emailed copy on the due date.

 

QUIZZES AND TESTS

 

I give ample notification of most quizzes and tests. BUT-if I assign chapters from a novel, due by a certain day, don’t be surprised by a quiz that day. Hint Hint.

I expect you to make up the quiz or test on the day you return from an absence.

If you have not made up a quiz or test one week after an absence, it becomes a zero.

 

GRADING 

 

Expect to be graded on the following EACH quarter:

 

-essays, quizzes and tests (both on vocab, grammar and various reading assignments), work folder, and projects/research

 

PLAGIARISM-

 

if you plagiarize your work, expect a zero. Also, Mr. Ditsky asks to be notified of any junior caught plagiarizing a paper and his/her name will be noted in the college guidance department, so its seriousness at the collegiate level can be addressed.

ABSENCES

 

 

if you are absent, check my website and check with a friend first. Then, see me before or after school-NOT in the middle of class.

CELL PHONES AND GUM:

 

It is not the actual gum-chewing that bothers me. It is what often winds up on my floor that really annoys me. If you are blatantly chewing away, I will ask you to put it in the trash. Repeat offenders may be brought in to clean my room after school.

 

I have a cell phone, I love my cell phone. BUT- I would never be rude enough to use my cell phone during a class or meeting. ALSO- there is usually no other reason for you to be : a) looking at your hand in your pocket, b) searching through a book bag pocket, c) staring at your hands in your lap, or d) whatever other trick you try…these usually have to do with cell phone use. If you do use your phone, be prepared to pay $10 and get a demerit. Sometimes I am in a good mood and you get a warning…if you want to take the chance that is up to you.

 

CLASS PARTICIPATION: At the end of each quarter you will get a class participation score based on 30-50 points. Any time you are sleeping, texting, or needing constant reminders to stop socializing, you will lose 2 points. Also, you will lose 2 points if you forget necessary materials for class that day. I have reminders all over the room and online, you need to bring the materials/books etc.

 

 

 

Texts for American Literature CP: works may vary but I try to cover most of the items listed.

 

THE BEGINNINGS: (Sept- Oct)

Various Native American stories

Of Plymouth Plantation- William Bradford

Narrative of Captivity- Mary Rowlandson

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God- Jonathan Edwards

Work by Anne Bradstreet and Ben Franklin

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie

*The Crucible

 

ROMANTICISM/ TRANSCENDENTALISM:( Oct-Nov)

Various Works by: Emerson, Thoreau, Ben Franklin, Poe, Hawthorne and  Irving Washington

RESEARCH PAPER 

REALISM

: (start over break) (Dec-Jan)

Into the Wild by John Krakauer

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

 

MID-TERM

MODERNISM:

*The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald-essay (Feb)

 

CONTEMPORARY: (March-May)

ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

Catcher in the Rye, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Short Story unit:  Violence in Contemporary Short Stories

Science Fiction and Contemporary Short Stories