1. WELCOME! Please print on an index card: 1.Your full name 2.Student’s full name 3.Student’s class period 4.Desired contact phone 5.Desired contact e-mail 6.One thing you’d like to share about the student

2. WHO IS MRS. YOUNG?  1 st year at Patriot, but 15 th year in PWCS.  Currently my 10 th time teaching Pre-AP 9 & my 4 th time teaching English 11.  I have also taught English 9, Remediation 9, Sheltered, ELL, AP Lit & Composition, Yearbook, and Journalism.  Past: Department chair, lead mentor, team lead  Currently: Doctoral student at Regent University & a professional development facilitator

3. PASSIONATE ABOUT MY WORK  For Myself: “Do or do not. There is no try.” –Yoda  For My Students: “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” -Albert Einstein

4. ENGLISH 11  High Stakes: March: Two writing SOLs combined into 1 score May: One reading SOL Year: Both scores count toward graduation  Books that students need will be specified at time they are needed.  Grading -My e-mail: youngma@pwcs.edu -My office hours: Wednesdays from 2:10-3:15 @ Flex

5. PRE-AP ENGLISH 9  Fast-paced, reading & writing intensive course  Homework is an everyday part of this course.  Time management is essential to success.  Reading the text is essential to success.  Grading

6. DID YOU KNOW…  If you e-mail through Parent Portal or Fusion and do not have your e-mail address registered, my response comes back as “undeliverable?”  If you e-mail and do not include the student’s name, I may not know who the student is? I have 150 students. I have four Brandons in one class and four Hannah’s in another. Lots of them – one of me ;)?

7. DID YOU KNOW…  Allowing students to advocate for themselves first builds skills that will serve them for a lifetime?  Signing up for Remind & checking Fusion will keep you in the loop just like you’re one of the students?  I post newsletters regularly in a Parent folder located in the files section of my School Fusion page?