1. USEFUL WEBSITES
Mrs. Casebolt

2. Grading and Reporting Learnboost Must accept membership
Tracks grades and averages
Lists addresses
New site on
dunmoreschooldistric.net

3. Keeping Up Dunmore School District Website Daily notes and assignments
Homework
Links to useful websites
Important announcements
dunmoreschooldistrict.net

4. Paper Submissions Turnitin.com Students will set up accounts
All papers submitted in paperless form
Grades will be calculated online
Grades will be posted one week after submission in most cases

5. Routine Immediately go to your seat upon arrival
Copy the prompt from the white board and answer it or copy the notes for the day
Two students may go to the lav per day and each student gets two lav trips per month unless a need is otherwise specified by the nurse
Students leaving the room must sign out
Students are to stay seated until the bell rings
Respect is required for each other and between student and teacher at all times

6. Grading Tests/Assesments/Papers will be 40% of the total grade
Quizzes will be 20%
Homework will comprise 20% of the grade
Classroom participation will comprise 20% of the grade
Deduction policy for points 3 and 4

7. Syllabus

8. Verbals/Writing Gerunds Infinitives Participles
“Mary Had a Little Lamb”

9. The Short Story (Terms and Works)
“The Washwoman”
“The Cask of Amontillado”
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
“The Most Dangerous Game”
“The Gift of the Magi”
“Rules of the Game”
“The Necklace”
“Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird”
“The Scarlet Ibis”

10. Non-Fiction (Common Core!)
On Summer (reflective essay)
Single Room, Earth View (expository essay)
Arthur Ashe Remembered (biography)
Libraries Face Sad Chapter (persuasive essay)

11. Poetry Dream Deferred I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Phenomenal Woman
Analysis of Baseball
Fifteen
The Road Not Taken

12. Drama
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

13. Novel One fiction selection from a given list
One non-fiction selection from a given list
Great Expectations if time permits

14. Vocabulary
Integrated throughout each work and/or topic

15. Research Paper
MLA formatting and basics
Final Exam

16. Homework Philosophy

17. Homework Try to free up weekend time
Projects are given with ample time to prepare via your schedule
Don’t give nightly assignments
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18. Grading Philosophy

19. What Is Important?
Who cares about the number on the report card and why?
What means more; growth or a number?