Bellaire High School
2011-2012 School Year
English II
Mrs. Fain-Johnson
Computer Access: Students are expected to check the website on a weekly basis for impending assignments. Provided a student does not have computer access at home or at a public library, Bellaire provides access. Students may access the website in the school library at lunch or after school. Also, they may attend tutorials on Thursday and Friday. Finally, there are various computer labs on campus, which are available for student use.
Course Purpose
The intent of this course is to provide a foundation for students to develop skills within four key strands within English: listening and speaking, reading, writing, and viewing and representing. Within each strand are goals, objectives, and content specifications. Many skills and concepts recur throughout the strands and indicate instruction is intended to be delivered as an integrated English Language Arts curriculum.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will:
- Write in a variety of forms including personal, literary, and persuasively for various audiences and purposes.
- Use conventions and mechanics of written English, including the rules of grammar and usage, to write clearly and effectively.
- Acquire an extensive vocabulary through reading and systematic word study.
- Read extensively and intensively for different purposes in varied diverse selections using a variety of strategies.
- Analyze elements for their contributions to meaning in literary texts and express and support responses to various types of texts.
- Listen attentively for a variety of purposes and analyze and evaluate oral performances and presentations.
- Speak clearly and effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Fall Semester Curriculum Materials
The Language of Literature, Grade 10
4 Black/Blue Pens and 1 Red Pens
Markers/Colored Pencils
Loose Leaf Paper
1 Pair of Scissors
Pencils
Cycle 1
· Summer reading : You Don’t Know Me by David Klass
· Various short stories
· Application of literary terms to various short stories
- Expository writing: focus on literary analysis
- Grammar: parts of speech
- Usage and mechanics
- Vocabulary
Cycle 2
· Reading: Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck/ Character Analysis and Conflict
- Thesis controlled essay over novel
- Usage and mechanics
- Grammar: parts of a sentence
- Vocabulary
Cycle 3
- Reading: Antigone by Sophocles
- Writing: personal narrative
- Grammar: sentence structure
- Usage and mechanics
- Vocabulary
Spring Semester Curriculum
Cycle 4
- Reading: Night by Elie Wiesel
- Revising and editing
- Writing: literary analysis and personal narrative
- Usage and mechanics
- Vocabulary
Cycle 5
- Reading: Othello by Shakespeare
- Narrative writing
- Usage and mechanics
- Revising and Editing
- Vocabulary
Cycle 6
- Reading: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
- Poetry (Reading and Writing)
- Grammar: sentence fluency
- Revising and editing
- Vocabulary
Grading Policy
Major Grades 50% (Tests, Essays, Projects, Presentations, Quizzes, etc.)
Daily Grades 50% (Warm-up, Participation, Homework, Classwork, Vocabulary, etc.)
*When absent, it is the student’s responsibility to get make up work. All assignments and information will be updated on the website by the end of each school day.
* Late daily assignments will be accepted one day late only with a 25 point deduction.
* Late major grades (i.e. projects/papers) will be accepted with a grade deduction of 10 points per day up to four days from the assigned due date.
*Make up work will be given in accordance with HISD policy; for each day absent, students are allotted an additional day to complete and hand in makeup work.
*Failure to bring supplies and a textbook to class on a daily basis will result in point deductions from a student’s participation grade. It is the student’s responsibility to be prepared every day that he/she is in class. Mrs. Fain will not provide supplies of any kind.
Bathroom Policy: Unless students have a doctor’s note from the nurse, they may only go to the restroom in the event of an emergency.
Rules and procedures
All students are expected to comply with the HISD Student Code of Conduct. In addition, all students are to follow the class rules. Any deviation from these rules will result in disciplinary action. Parents will be notified if a student’s behavior repeatedly disrupts class learning.
Class Rules
Þ Be prepared
Þ Be on time
Þ Follow the Code of Conduct
Tutorials
Tutorials will be held each Thursday and Friday during lunch in room 253.
Please sign and return the acknowledgement section of the rules and regulations which begin on the following page. Students will receive extra-credit on their final grade for returning the signed syllabus.
By signing the portion below the perforation you are acknowledging the terms of K. Fain-Johnson’s English 2A Class. Feel free to email (kfain@houstonisd.org) or review my website http://fain-johnson10thgradeclass.blogspot.com for questions about class materials, class notes, assignments, and tests).
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