1. 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

2. 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

3. Ways to Contact Me: (or go to WHS website and click contact teacher) Phone: (909) Parent conferences are set-up with glc, not me. I may be able to answer your questions/concerns via first.

4. 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.

5. Walnut High School website (http://whs. wvusd. k12. ca
Walnut High School website ( 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 reminders. Codes (and directions) for individual classes are located in your student’s syllabus. Homework is written on board every day.

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

7. 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)

8. 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

9. 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