Syllabus
Your Grit grade is worth _______% of your overall grade.
What is 15%?
This is a type of writing where you continue a story, write a poem, write a story with similar themes, etc.
What is a narrative?
This is the title of our ELA class.
What is Women's Literature?
These items used to carry books and personal items are not allowed in the classrooms.
What are backpacks and purses?
Ms. Wills taught this grade before she taught 10th and 11th grade.
What is 6th grade?
List two of our classroom expectations.
What are: Be on time and prepared for class every day; listen and be respectful to Ms. Wills and your classmates; pay attention and participate; be positive!; don’t ever say, “I can’t.” You can do it!; be an active participant in your learning.; follow the Five Standards of Success
List any two examples of figurative language.
What is: personification, simile, metaphor, imagery, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, etc.
List two units that we will study in this class.
What are: coming of age, individuals, family expectations, wives and mothers, sisterhood and feminism, women in Stem?
This technological items needs to remain in lockers every day, or they will be taken up.
What are cell phones; what are smartwatches; what are airpods?
This is a related arts class that Ms. Wills teaches.
What is theatre?
True or false: a student who turns in an incomplete essay without apparent effort can complete it at any time, and Ms. Wills will change the grade.
What is False?
The student must attend two essay detentions to revise the essay, and the original grade will stay in the gradebook.
This is an academic way of saying an educated guess. It involves taking what you have read and combining it with your own thoughts to reach a conclusion.
What is an inference?
True or false: this ELA class is integrated with a History class.
What is false?
This after school service is required if you are making below a 70 in your classes.
What is tutoring?
This is the number of siblings Ms. Wills has (double the point value if you can list number of brother(s) and/or sister(s):
What is two (sisters)?
A 3.5 equals a _______________ in the SBG scale.
What is a 90%?
This is the key part of an argumentative essay where you disprove the other side of the argument.
What is the counterclaim?
True or false: 10th grade ELA has a TNReady test at the end of the year.
What is true?
This is the consequence for receiving four tardies in your classes.
What is a referral?
Name one of Ms. Wills' favorite hobbies!
What is: Reading, rock climbing, participating in theatre, baking, hiking
These are the consequences for plagiarism
What is: receiving a zero for the assignment, parent contact, and having to re-do the assignment (the zero will stay)
List one difference between theme and main idea.
What is: theme is the moral of a text, main idea is what the text is mainly about; there can be more than one theme in a text, there is usually only one main idea.
Choose the type of text that we read the most in this class: Novels, poetry, short stories, or plays.
What are plays (Antigone, A Doll's House, A Raisin in the Sun)?
This is the consequence for getting caught with your cell phone three times.
What is having the phone taken up for the rest of the year?
These are the names of Ms. Wills' three pets (Dalmatian not included; add +100 if you can remember his name, too).
Who are Poppy, Hades, and Leslie (Pongo the Dalmatian)?