1. Phillips Preparatory School
8th Grade Language Arts

2. Phillips Preparatory School
Mrs. Herren
Phillips Preparatory School
6th Grade Language Arts
And
8th Grade Language Arts

3. Education Mobile College - Bachelors of Science in Education
English, grades 6-12
Music Education
Psychology
University of Mobile –
Masters in Elementary Education
Any grade or subject in grades 1 - 6

4. Teaching Career Mary Montgomery High School 1977-1986 English 9 – 12
Chorus

5. Council Traditional School
Teaching Career
Council Traditional School
5th Grade
Science
and
Language Arts

6. Teaching Career Phillips Preparatory School 2001 - 2016 6Th Grade
Language Arts
2007 – 2015
8th Grade

7. Homework/Planners Homework is assigned nightly.
Students should enter the room and copy their
homework into their planners.
PLEASE check the planners to make sure this is
happening.
Please refer to iNow to make sure that the students
are completing their homework each night and to
monitor their progress. INow login information should
be requested from the office.
Zeros for incomplete assignments will affect grade
averages.
Homework is 10% of the Language Arts grade.
If a student is absent, it is their responsibility to pick
up their work from the front bulletin board.

8. Communication
If you need to discuss your child’s progress
with me, you may me at
to request a conference
or ask a question; or you may call the school at
and I will return your call.
Novel
The novel study each quarter is part of the
Language Arts grade. Each student must have
his or her own novel to underline or highlight
the answers to the guided reading questions.
At the end of the quarter, the students will
write an EQT essay that counts 25% of their
quarter exam grade.

9. PROGRESS REPORTS
All parents will receive calls letting them know grades are current in each class and iNow should be checked.
This will be done in place of sending home progress reports
DUE DATES
Please remember all assignment, test,
and project due dates are given well
in advance. Work not completed by
these deadlines will result in zeros.

10. Phillips Language Arts teachers use specific reading strategies to improve reading skills and comprehension.
The Language Arts Department attends many professional development seminars to continuously update our strategies to help students improve their reading skills and comprehension levels.

12. Mark important info as you
read.
Mark the answers in the book and put the question number in the margin of
the book.

13. Mark the vocabulary words in the book and put the vocabulary word number in the margin of the book.