Behavior Expectations
What is the only time when you can be talking at the same time as someone else in the classroom?
When the teacher has instructed the class to talk in partners or small groups
When are the only times you are not expected to have a bellringer written in your English notebook? Do you still need to write something?
When the bellringer is not written (You should still write Bellringer: N/A)
Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, etc.
What should you do if you want to get up to throw something away?
Raise your hand at an appropriate time when the teacher is not in the middle of instruction, wait patiently to be called on, and ask permission
How many warnings are you owed before you are asked to have a reteaching?
None
When do you need to turn in your email assignment?
Once a month, on a specified date
Who is the author of The Fall of the House of Usher?
Edgar Allen Poe
What was the name of the visiting reverend who was an expert in witchcraft in The Crucible?
Reverend Hale
When are you allowed to move the desks in the classroom?
Only when Miss Lorenz instructs you to do so
On which days will you be graded on the notes you take in class?
On the days that Miss Lorenz specifically tells you to take notes
Who gave a speech with the famous line "Give me liberty, or give me death!"?
Patrick Henry
What is considered a tardy?
When you are not in your seat with all the required materials by the time the bell rings
Under which circumstances may Spanish be used in English class?
Only when speaking with a Spanish teacher or when clarifying individual words
How many points will be taken off for each day a project for a quiz or a test grade is late?
10 percent per day
Who wrote a narrative about her experience being captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War?
Mary Rowlandson
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were leading figures in which American Philosophical and Literary movement?
Transcendentalism
When may you ask Miss Lorenz questions that do not have to do with the topic of the class?
Outside of class
List the 3 materials that you are required to bring to class each day
English notebook, writing utensil, main textbook for the unit
What was the name of the settlement about which William Bradford wrote an account that told the story of the "first Thanksgiving"?
Plymouth Plantation
What is the American Literary movement that included features of realism but tended to romanticize a past period of a specific geographical location?
Regionalism