Welcome to Walnut High School’s Back to School Night Mrs Welcome to Walnut High School’s Back to School Night Mrs. Kellee Lyons English August 25, 2016

About me Bachelor’s in English from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego Master’s in English from Cal Poly, Pomona Thesis Topic: The Role of Women using Edna Pontellier in The Awakening and Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter Teaching & Administrative Credential Teaching at Walnut High School for 17 years

Ways to Contact Me: Email: klyons@wvusd.k12.ca.us (or go to WHS website and click contact teacher) Phone: (909) 594-1333 Parent conferences are set-up with glc, not me. I may be able to answer your questions/concerns via email first.

Student responsibility Students are expected to be proactive about their education— especially when absent, tardy, etc. Students are expected to go online to get work and keep up with class. The responsibility of making up work is put on the student. Tutorial is an opportunity for extra help or making up tests, quizzes, essays, etc.

Walnut High School website (http://whs. wvusd. k12. ca Walnut High School website (http://whs.wvusd.k12.ca.us click on my name) ALL CLASSES have their assignments recorded daily so you are able to check on what is to be done each day. You can also go to REMIND and sign-up for text messages and/or email reminders. Codes (and directions) for individual classes are located in your student’s syllabus. Homework is written on board every day.

Mrs. Lyons’ English 3/4H/4AP Classes What We Will Do This Year…

English 3 Native American tales/documents The Declaration of Independence many close reads and literary analyses How to take notes and annotate Literary devices—how they function in literature Selections of poetry from text and instructor (Dickinson, Frost, and other American poets) Research paper in 2nd semester A Yellow Raft in Blue Water The Great Gatsby Catcher in the Rye A Lesson Before Dying The Crucible Death of a Salesman (possibility)

English 4H Hamlet Pride and Prejudice Bless Me, Ultima Literary Terms Wuthering Heights Essay writing and quick-writes Personal Insight Questions (UC) The Canterbury Tales A Modest Proposal with Satire emphasis Non-fiction essays in textbook and close reader Brave New World

English 4AP The Awakening A Doll’s House Wuthering Heights Bless Me, Ultima Macbeth Heart of Darkness Beloved Literary Devices (20 total) Practice AP Multiple Choice Exams Practice AP Timed Essays (around 18 written throughout entire school year) Personal Insight Questions (UC) AP Exam is May 4th in the morning