Issued Textbooks

Anderson, et.all.  Elements of Literature, Sixth Course: Literature of Britain. Chicago:

Holt Rinehart and Winston, Inc. 1989.

Vocabulary Workshop: Level G.

 

Required Textbooks

(All novels will be ordered through the school bookstore, which may receive books at a lower cost by buying in bulk.  You are under no obligation to purchase texts here, it is simply a convenience the school arranges for students!)

 

Semester One:              Semester Two:

The Last Lecture Randy Pausch        Frankenstein (1831 Version) 

Beowulf (Seamus Heaney version)    Lord of the Flies (Golding)

Hamlet (Folgers Library Edition)         The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

            20^th Century Novel TBA                     

                       

Course Requirements

Students will be required to manage their time and allow themselves time to learn while completing work as assigned.  Student grades will greatly suffer for late and/or missing work, making organization and time management a large priority for the course.  Students are encouraged to use the Lincoln-Way East Academic Planner, the classroom calendar and the class website for this purpose.  If, at any time, students feel they need additional assistance, they should set up a meeting with the instructor.  As all students are entering the course with different abilities, it is expected that each student make the effort to seek additional instruction in the areas they feel appropriate.

Make Up Work

Arrangements for make up work and testing need to be made by the student for both expected and unexpected, excused and unexcused absences.  Students need to see the instructor before or after school to obtain assignments or make arrangements to make up work.  It is recommended that students refer to the weekly class calendar or the  class website for missing assignments/grade opportunities.  It is recommended that each student obtain a homework partner that would obtain assignments, handouts and notes for the other when absent.  This can easily avoid before/after school conflicts in meeting with the instructor.  It is ultimately the responsibility of each individual student to obtain assignments and make up work within the timeframe established by the Attendance Office.  Note: this policy does NOT apply to formal papers!

 

Assignments

All assignments are due at the beginning of each hour.  Late work will not be accepted.

 

With the exception of formal papers, student assignments will be required to follow the Sample Style Sheet for Assignments found in the LWE Academic Planner.

 

Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism is the act of using someone else’s words or ideas as if they were one’s own.  It is plagiarism to change even a few words and give no credit to the author.  It is a serious offense, and while you should be gathering ideas from other sources, those sources must be given credit in accordance with the following guidelines:

-          If the exact words of an author are used, whether they are sentences or just phrases, quotation marks must be used and the source documented.

-          If an original idea of an author is used, even if it is not copied word for word, that idea must be documented.

-          If information is found in at least three sources, it is considered common knowledge (e.g., Washington was the first President of the United States.) and need not be documented as long as the original wording is paraphrased, not used exactly as printed.

The student must be prepared to prove that his/her paper is properly documented by providing notes, notecards, books, articles or other materials that would verify the authenticity of documentation.

 

Grading Procedures

Student work will be graded on a point system that weighs the value of tests, papers, assignments and vocabulary.  Each quarter will have a possibility of 400-500 points. Semester Exams will be weighted as1/5 of the semester grade, with each quarter grade weighted as 2/5 of the semester grade.

 

Grading Scale

A+  100-98%      B+  89-87%      C+  79-77%      D+ 69-67%

A      97-93%      B    86-83%      C    76-73%      D   66-63%      F  59-0%

A-     92-90%      B-   82-80%      C-   72-70%      D-  62-60%