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 this ELA class.
What is American Literature?
These items used to carry books and personal items are not allowed in the classrooms.
What are backpacks and purses?
Ms. Meadows taught this grade alongside the 9th graders last year.
What is 12th?
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; follow directions quickly; 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: American Literary Roots; Conformity and Rebellion; Rebellion and Revolution; American Horror Story; America at War; American Extravagance and the American Dream
This technological items needs to remain in lockers every day, or it will be taken up.
What are cell phones; what are smart watches; what are airpods?
The amount of siblings Ms. Meadows has:
What is zero?
True or false: a student who turns in an incomplete essay without apparent effort can complete it at any time, and Ms. Meadows 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?
This ELA class is integrated with this other 11th grade class.
What is AP US History?
This after school service is required if you are making below a 70 in your classes.
What is tutoring?
Name one of Ms. Meadows's favorite hobbies!
What is: Reading, writing poetry, going on long walks, traveling, and taking cool pictures
A 3.5 equals a _______________ in the SBG scale.
What is 90%
This is the key part of an argumentative essay where you disprove the other side of the argument.
What is the rebuttal?
True or false: 11th grade ELA has a TNReady test at the end of the year.
What is false!
This is the consequence for receiving four tardies in your classes.
What is a referral?
These are jobs Ms. Meadows has had:
What is: Salad Chopper, Newspaper Editor, Cashier, Office Assistant, Camp Counselor, server
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)
Define rhetoric in your own words.
Language used to persuade an audience/ the art of persuading others using language
This is the play by William Shakespeare that we will read in this class.
What is Macbeth?
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?
What is Ms. Meadows's favorite accent to talk in?
What is a British accent?