The Harris Moves

Here is the link to the Harris Moves Power Point: https://sites.google.com/site/nwpcrwp/mini-units/argument-highway---leeanne-bodelon

September 28, and 29, : Planning a Line of Reasoning

Today in class we:

• Learned about the Harris Moves
• Completed writing our claims
• Completed the "Planning a Line of Reasoning" outline

HW: Have completed outline due in class on ______.

The Argument Highway power point

Here is  link to the power point for the Argument Highway. Be sure to refer to the presentation when you need to review the Harris moves.

https://sites.google.com/site/nwpcrwp/mini-units/argument-highway---leeanne-bodelon

Class September 26, and 27

Today in class we:

• Discussed the articles and the "Note catcher" chart.
• Began the process of creating claims in the "Claim Development Tool"

For the next class please have an articulated claim that you have worked through the claim development tool.

Welcome to 11 AP English: Syllabus

Dr. Kelly Moore

Fall 2016

kmoore@niskyschools.org

 

 

English 11H Advanced Placement Language and Composition

 

            Welcome to Advanced Placement Language and Composition! English 11Honors AP, a college-level course, involves a critical study of selected major works of drama, poetry, fiction and nonfiction, tracing recurrent concerns of American culture and experience as expressed in a variety of texts. The course includes a significant amount of reading and writing, and asks students to study and apply their understanding of how language works in both their reading and writing. A high level of verbal competence and skill of writing, as well as the power of sustained independent inquiry, is required. Students completing English 11Honors AP is prepared to take the AP examination in Language and Composition.

 

Objectives:

• Students will develop skills and strategies to write in an array of genres and styles and for various audiences and purposes (e.g. narrative, expository, analytical and argumentative essays)
• Students will learn how to use a larger research library and understand the tools and technologies to conduct college level research. Students will learn how to use MLA style consistently and accurately.
• Students will learn to analyze graphics and visual images.
• Students will learn how to draft, critique and revise both their own work and the written work of their classmates.
• Students will analyze readings for literary devices, rhetorical strategies, syntax, allusions and style and then use these devices in their own writing and speaking.
• Students will read a wide variety of texts (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism etc.) and learn strategies to read, analyze and evaluate texts.
• Students will learn how to evaluate texts.
• Students will create original work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Texts:

 

Because of the nature of the course, a substantial amount of reading and writing will be assigned. Some of the reading will be in the form of photocopied essays, articles, short stories, literary criticism and poems. Some of the longer titles that we may read and discuss this year are:

 

 

The Scarlet Letter

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Crucible

 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The Invisible Man

The Great Gatsby

Fences

Montana 1948

The Sound and the Fury

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Walden

Into the Wild

The Things They Carried

Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

The Bluest Eye

 

Collateral Reading:

In addition to in-class reading, students will read supplemental texts outside of class. There will be a minimum of one outside reading per quarter. Outside reading activities and tests will be calculated into quarter grades.

 

Student Expectations:

 

Improving your reading, writing, thinking, listening and speaking skills will require that you work diligently over the course of the year. In order to reach our goals for this year it will be necessary for students to meet the expectations below.

 

• Productive and meaningful participation in class activities and discussion
• Serious effort
• Ability to work on long term writing, research and oral projects
• Maturity of thought and expression
• Willingness to work both collectively and independently
• Willingness to extensively revise written work
• Preparation for class (having thoughtfully read assigned material and carefully written homework).
• Adherence to assignment due dates and requirements

 

 

Materials:

• A notebook devoted only to English
• An assignment notebook
• A folder or binder devoted to English handouts
• A blue or black pen
• A complete and well organized writing folder

 

 

 

Writing Folder:

Students will maintain a complete and organized writing folder. The folder will be comprised of drafts, in class writing prompts and other “beginnings” for our writing. Each quarter the writing folder will be evaluated for completeness, effort and organization. Each writing in the folder must be dated and titled and a comprehensive list of what belongs in the writing folder will be posted in the classroom.

 

 

Evaluation:

           

Students will be evaluated on a wide-range of assignments, both individual and collective. Students will be evaluated through homework, tests, writing, in class activities, discussion, projects, research and presentations.

 

 

Reading Quizzes and Notes Quizzes                                     25-50 pts

Tests                                                                                       100 pts

Major Writing Assignments                                                  100-150 pts

Major Projects                                                                                    100-150 pts

Presentations                                                                          50-100 pts.

Homework                                                                              20-50 pts

Participation                                                                          

 

 

• The final examination is the New York State Regents exam which consists of a written exam worth twenty percent of the student’s final course grade.
• Each quarter grade will be calculated by a point system; the grade will be determined by dividing the number of points the student earned with the number of possible points in the quarter.
• Final school marks will be determined by using quality points.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Policies:

 

• Students who miss 15 class periods will be denied credit for the class. Any absence of more than twenty minutes constitutes an absence.
• Students are encouraged to seek out the instructor; please make an appointment.
• Students may be offered the opportunity to redo certain assignments after a conference. Please meet with the instructor.
• No late homework will be accepted, unless a student has been absent.
• Ten points will be deducted each school day an assignment is late. Students who are in attendance for a portion of the school day are expected to hand in papers even if they are not in class.
• Tests, presentations and quizzes missed due to absence must be makeup within one week. Failure to make up work within one week will result in a zero. All missed quizzes will be available in the English department. It is not necessary to make an appointment.
• No paper or assignment will be accepted via email, unless the instructor has approved the request ahead of time.
• Students are expected to follow the guidelines for academic integrity and plagiarism outlined in the Niskayuna Student Handbook. All work a student hands in is expected to be wholly his or her own. If a student consults outside sources, he or she must properly cite his or her work using MLA format. Students are encouraged to consult their teachers, the MLA handbook, the media center, and the Niskayuna Research Guide with any questions. All suspected violations of this policy will be reported to the administration. Students found guilty of academic dishonesty will be subject to failure, reduction of grades and disciplinary action.
• Students who fail to complete major assignments in the fourth quarter will not be allowed to take the final examination. A grade of zero will be assigned for the final exam grade.