1. Mrs. Dionne Johnson Room 308
Honors Language Arts
Blended Language Arts and History
AP Language and Composition

2. Welcome to Mrs. Johnson’s Classroom
Attendance/Seat Chart
Introduction
Abbreviated Autobiography Assignment

3. Where should I sit?
Your seats today will be recorded in the official seat chart. Please sit in the same seats everyday until you are told otherwise.
Of course, I reserve the right to move your seat, whenever and wherever I feel will be in the best interest of our learning environment.

4. A Little Bit About Me…

7. And something about you…
What do you enjoy doing?
What are you passionate about?
Where are you from?
What is unique about your home/family life?
What is your greatest fear?
What is your greatest success?
Where do you see yourself twenty-three years from this day?

8. So, what will we be doing this year?

9. And the tests? For EVERYONE: GHSGWT EOCT (September 25) (May)
As applicable:
GHSGT Assortment AP
Of interims,
post-test, finals
(April) (ongoing) (May)

10. Classroom Guidelines

11. Guideline #1
Be in your assigned seat and working on the assigned bell work when the tardy bell rings.

12. Guideline #2
Bring ALL books and materials to class and take them with you when you leave.

13. Treat each person in this room with respect and dignity.
Guideline #3
Treat each person in this room with respect and dignity.

14. Guideline #4
Follow all procedures and policies as outlined in your CGHS student handbooks.

15. Guideline #5
All electronic devices, including headphones, should be out of sight at all times.

16. Not Following Guidelines will result in:
1st
Warning and documentation
2nd
Action Plan , Parental Contact, and 30 minute after school detention
Fridays Only!!
3rd
Disciplinary Referral
Action Plan - 161

17. Classroom Procedures

18. Entering the room Please enter quietly Have a seat
Take out your materials
Review the agenda
Begin bell work assignment

19. When you are tardy Enter quietly Excused: Place excuse in
the basket on top of the file cabinet
Unexcused: Sign detention
list on top of file cabinet
Have a seat and take out
your materials

20. After an absence Go to the make-up work center
Copy the assignment from the calendar
Retrieve any handouts
Sign the clipboard
Turn in the assignment by the
appropriate deadline
Make-up tests: 2:15 in 308/307.

21. Student Responsibility Card This is for students who do not have the assigned homework
Fill it out
Sign and date it
Turn it in with the homework
papers

22. Late/Make-up Work Policy
All student work must be completed within five days of the absence, per the school policy. Additionally:
Late daily work will be penalized 20 points.
Late projects and essays will be penalized 10 points per day.
Unit tests and quizzes must be made up within five days.

23. Supplies Composition notebook Hand sanitizer
Blue/black ink pens Facial tissue
Notebook paper Colored Pencils
Index cards Ream of paper
Post-it notes Flash drive
Multi-color highlighters Three-ringed binder

24. ABBREVIATED AUTOBIOGRAPHY
This is the age of Facebooking, texting, and Tweeting. To capture the spirit of the moment, write the story of your life (your “abbreviated autobiography”) in 150 words.
As you listen to my abbreviated autobiography list some of the themes involved to help you write your own.

25. Abbreviated me…

26. Be prepared to turn this assignment in when you enter the class on Friday.