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English 9: College Reading - Fall 2015

Mrs. McAllister
Email: mcallister@themetroschool.org
Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00-4:00PM
Essential Question: How do life experiences affect the development of the
individual as evidenced in literature?
Course Objective: Students will develop analytical, informative,
argumentative, and creative writing skills through a variety of mastery
assignments. Students will analyze and interpret texts representing the
genres of nonfiction, fiction, drama, poetry, and short stories through
independent assignments and group seminar discussion. Additionally,
students will practice elements of style and grammar to improve their own
written and verbal literacy.
Course Units:
Unit 1: Coming of Age
Unit 2: Defining Style
Unit 3: Coming of Age During Changing Times*
*subject to change
Classroom Expectations: Students will respect each other as individuals
and treat others as they expect to be treated. I will prepare rigorous and
engaging lessons for students each day, and students will give their full effort
to complete lessons to the best of their abilities. As you are all new high
school students, most of you will find that you will have to "do" school
differently. The habits that enabled your success in middle school may not be
sufficient to attain the same level of success. If you do what I ask you to do
with a positive attitude you will achieve a high level in this class and your
success in life will have no limits.
Attendance/Missed Work: Attendance in class is a necessary part of your
success. Certain activities, such as discussions, are based on class
participation. Mastery of these activities cannot be achieved if you are
absent. Please pay attention to assignments you missed or will miss and plan
accordingly. Due dates for essays and major projects are given AT LEAST one
week in advance, so being absent does not excuse you from the task. On
time online submission for these assignments are still required even if you
are not present in class. If you are absent on the day of a test or quiz, you
must see me the morning of your first day back between 7:00-7:45am before
school to take the test or quiz. Failure to take the quiz or test in a timely
manner will result in a zero grade and no opportunity to remediate.
Technology: Although each student will need access to some sort of device
(laptop, tablet, Chrome book etc.,) for the course, using a phone or phonesized device is not approved. Students who attend class without an approved
device will negatively impact their success. The tech support team will

provide very limited assistance to those students who bring their own devices
so please plan accordingly. During class, please use technology responsibly
and in such a way that does not detract from others or your own learning.
This paragraph serves as your warning. Please ask for permission and use
common sense before accessing apps and non-school sanctioned sites on
your device.
Mastery & Remediation: In order to achieve Mastery in English 9, students
must achieve 90% on each category of assignments. Students will need to
get mastery in each category but not necessarily on each individual
assignment since the skills and standards are recursive in assignments. The
categories may include but are not limited to:
Vocabulary
Foundational
Projects
Essays
Tests
Students get a week or more for mastery projects, essays, and vocabulary
assignments. Instruction and revision for these assignments is done before
the final submission so there is no remediation offered throughout the
semester. During the last two days of the term, students can revise these
assignments and resubmit them then, if needed, to reach mastery in those
categories.
There is no remediation of foundational assignments. Foundational
assignment grades are changed once mastery is reached on assignments in
other categories to ensure students can get mastery in the foundational
assignments category. However, if a student is struggling with a mastery
assignment, it is recommend that the student revise/review the foundational
assignment as additional practice. Student should attend office hours to get
additional support on foundational assignments throughout the term.
The Final exam and unit tests are summative in nature and like the ACT or
SAT provides no opportunity for remediation.
Plagiarism: Plagiarism is a serious issue. Plagiarism will lead to failure on
the assessment and/or other action being taken by Mrs. McAllister and/or the
administrative team. Though some plagiarism happens unintentionally, it
should be your goal to leave no room for error when creating original work.
Unless you are told by Mrs. McAllister that the assignment can be done with
others, students should assume that all assignments should be their own
original work and not taken in part or in whole from others. The Ohio State
University defines plagiarism in so much that At any stage of the writing
process, all academic work submitted to the teacher must be a result of a
students own thought, research or self-expression. When a student submits
work purporting to be his or her own, but which in any way borrows
organization, ideas, wording or anything else from a source without
appropriate acknowledgment of the fact, he/she is engaging in plagiarism."

According to the University of Indiana, this means all instances listed below
are considered acts of plagiarism.
A.
A student must not adopt or reproduce ideas, opinions, theories,
formulas, graphics or pictures of another person without
acknowledgement.
B.
Students must give credit to the originality of others and
acknowledge an indebtedness
a.
Directly quoting another persons actual words, whether oral or
written;
b.
Using another persons ideas, opinions, or theories;
c.
Paraphrasing the words, ideas, or theories of others;
d.
Borrowing facts, stats, or materials; or
e.
Offering materials of others in projects or collections without
acknowledgement.
If you are unsure of what constitutes plagiarism, feel free to ask me.

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