Course Overview & Materials
This "Enduring Understanding" from the College Board curriculum examines comparisons, representations, and associations and how they can shift meaning from literal to figurative to invite interpretation.
What is Figurative Language (FIG)?
Writing assignments, unit assessments, and projects fall under the Tests & Assessments category which is worth this percentage of your grade.
What is 40%?
These assignments will not be accepted late.
What is homework & classwork?
As long as you have received permission from the teacher and you are putting in joint intellectual effort, this is not considered academic dishonesty.
What is collaboration?
This is the number of students permitted out of the classroom at a time.
What is one?
This will be the primary textbook for the course from which we will review specific skills and strategies for reading, writing, and thinking about literature.
What is Bedford's Literature & Composition: Reading, Writing, Thinking?
This category includes some non-graded assignments as well as class participation and Do Nows and will mostly be graded based upon a percentage earned on a rubric.
What is Classwork & Participation?
You will not be able to make-up work missed during this kind of absence.
What is cutting or unexcused?
It's not just copying someone else's assignment that's considered cheating, but also doing this.
What is giving an assignment to a student to be copied?
Lengthy periods out of class, multiple visits out the class per week and reports of being in restricted areas will result in this.
What is being barred from leaving the class?
You should have this supply item with you everyday (make sure it is fully charged).
What is a District Issued Chromebook?
Much of the work, including socratic seminars and in-class reading annotations, outside of tests and papers will be counted in this category.
What is Performance-Based Learning?
Major assignments that are turned in late will have this percentage deducted from their grade for each day late.
What is 10%?
In order to avoid plagiarism, you should always do these two things when using someone else's words.
What is put quotation marks around them and give the writer or speaker credit by citing the source?
This behavior will result in detention for makeup missed class time, parent/guardian contact, and loss of pass privileges.
What is consistent late arrivals?
What is an undergraduate class?
This category may only be worth a small percentage but failure to complete these assignments will have a negative impact on grades in other categories as well.
What is Homework?
If you are absent from class, you must come during this time to get missing work from the teacher.
What is outside of class (during office hours)?
Using AI to write a paper or using entire paragraphs suggested by an app without citation is considered this.
What is an inappropriate use of GAI?
Students will not be permitted to leave the classroom for this.
What is go to their lockers?
This is one of the four skills that you will be expected to master by the end of this course (any one of the four will do).
What is...?
Read a text closely and draw conclusions from details in the text.
Identify the techniques used by an author and their effects.
Develop an interpretation of a text.
Present your interpretation and make an argument for it in writing.
This category in the participation rubric measures your ability to demonstrate respect for other perspectives and create a collaborative learning atmosphere.
What is Respectful Engagement and Citizenship?
Any missing or late work (excluding homework and classwork) will not be accepted after this time, barring prior communication with the teacher.
What is 5 days after the due date?
In addition to loss of points and required resubmission of an assignment for partial credit, this is another possible consequence for academic dishonesty.
What is detention, parent notification, or further disciplinary action?
In addition to following all schoolwide norms, students are expected to follow these classroom expectations (list them).
What are be responsible, respectful, resourceful & ready?