English 10Honors PreAP

Jennifer Showalter room 019Roger Kugler room 031Andy Lang Room 221

J an i e

& Henry

Jennifer ShowalterAbout me:

English 10 (PreAP, Reg, SVL), JournalismJC Journal Newspaper AdvisorKnitting Club Advisor 16th year teaching at LC, Spokane nativeBA English, Minor Journalism WSU. MA English Literature EWU. Married to Kevin Showalter, of the Cheney Showalters

8 ½-year-old girl, Janie Kayleen4-year-old boy, Henry Thomas

Useful Information:jennifersh@spokaneschools.org Messages—email/text is fastest 615-745-9970 (Google Voice #).

Assignment calendar: www.lctigers.com > staff sites

Available hours: 6:30 am to 1:35 pm (I leave after 5th period to pick up my kids).

My grades and the assignment calendar (on my LC website) are updated on a weekly basis

Worried about grades? The only scores for concern now are zeros or incompletes.

PreAP 10 Objectives—AP, CCWRITING

analyzing and composing in various MODESREADING

Close reading Author’s PurposeLiterary FeaturesAnalyzing Rhetoric

Annotating to analyze/evaluateRESEARCH

Reinforcing the Modern Language Association (MLA) rules for writing

PreAP 10 Objectives Continued

VOCABULARY In contextGreek/Latin root Lists 1-7 (review from last year)Lists 8-17 (out of 20)

GRAMMAR (every Thursday)ASSESSMENT PREPARATION:

AP language (grade 11) and AP literature (grade 12) tests

The SAT and Smarter Balance Common Core WA State Assessment (junior year)

Texts used/covered in Class FALLSummer Reading: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

All year: Springboard curriculum/assessments The MLA Handbook—7th ed.

Current: Independent Choice NovelNov/Dec.: Antigone by SophoclesDec/Jan: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Texts used/covered in Class: SPRINGFebruary/March: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

April/May: Choice Non-Fiction text

June (Possible): 101 Great American Poems

The PSATWednesday, October 14, 8 am @ LCHSCost—FREE!Bring: #2 pencils, calculator, snacksRequired for juniors and sophomores (freshmen and

seniors will be completing career and college readiness activities)

The room assignment poster, for all students, will be posted in the main hall by the student office a few days before the test.

Great practice for the SATStudents receive practice books in SeminarWill take the PSAT again Junior year to qualify for

National Merit Scholarships

Weighted Grading System      30% 70%

Grading Category   Percent

Formative Assessments

Practices, Quizzes, Drafts

Summative Assessments

Tests, Final drafts

READING   40%    

Grammar   (10%) (3%) (7%)

 

Parts of Speech,

Parts of a

Sentence,

Phrases, Clauses      

Vocabulary   (10%) (3%) (7%)

 

Greek and Latin

Roots      

 

Content

Vocabulary      

Comprehension, Annotation, Analysis,

Evaluation, etc.   (20%) (6%) (14%)

         

WRITING   60%    

Essays

AP/SAT/HSPE/

District Unit

Assessments (30%) (9%) (21%)

Brief or paragraph writing   (20%) (6%) (14%)

Journal, Reflective, Creative writing   (10%) (3%) (7%)

Weighted Grading System: Honors accountability, responsibility, and diligence by giving

credit for practicing class skills through formative assessments Missing or being unsuccessful on some assignments will not

wreck a student’s overall grade. Reward and account for skill acquisition by counting final

assessments as the majority of the student’s grade. No late work policy for daily work: Formative assessments

should be completed in order to best practice and master skills. However, no late work will be accepted for formative (practice) assessments.

Redos for summative work: Students will have multiple opportunities to demonstrate, retest, or rewrite as necessary to prove that they have acquired and mastered skills over the course of the year.

Looking Forward to a great year together!

Please contact me if you have any questions.