Announcements

Deadline to purchase dinner dance tickets is TODAY - Friday June 7th -   NO EXCEPTIONS!

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 If you are redoing your Research Paper you need to have the draft by tomorrow and have someone peer edit for you.
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Homework (formative assessment) is graded on a scale of (0 - 5).
Students will receive a 0 for no homework.
Students will receive a 1, 2 3, or 4 for partial completion of homework and a 5 for total completion.

To receive a score of 5 the student only needs to put in the effort and answer all the questions, the answers do not have to be correct. 

However if a student fails to bring his or her homework assignment to class they will not receive any credit. 

I do not take late homework assignments, as we go over the answers in class and this would give all students the opportunity to write down the correct answers without trying.

Nor do I allow students to leave the English classroom room and go to their locker. I find that allowing student to leave English class to search their locker is usually an unsuccessful task. 

This is why it is so important for each student have a 1" binder for English class. This tool will assist the student to be organized and successful. 

The only homework I will take late is homework that is a long term assignment (summative assignment) - A deduction of 10pts will be taken for each day a summative assessment is late.  
 
Absent work - It is the responsibility of the absent student to retrieve the work that they missed while out. They may check my web-site as I keep a blog of daily activities, and the homework page.
 
If work has been passed out to the students while they were out, it is the responsibility of the student to check the basket in the front of the classroom, as I will put assignments in there that they are missing.  Makeup work (absent work) may be place in the basket on my desk. I go through it generally each night and will return it the next day.

For school grading policy please go to that page. Thank you.

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What is needed for English class?
Jumbo black book cover (the regular ones will not fit)
1" to 1 1/2" black binder 4 dividers (writing, grammar, literature, DOL)
1 composition notebook (to be left in class for journaling)
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Earn extra credit

Students may earn extra credit by going to www.freerice.com
Work on as many vocab words that you can. 
(A min. score of 500 is required)

For each correct answer this web-site will donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.

To receive credit you must copy and paste the total page with your name and English section in the subject line and email it to me             
(plamontagne@pelhamsd.org). 

MAKE SURE YOU USE .ORG NOT .COM AS I DO NOT RECEIVE ANYTHING SENT TO .COM


I will only accept this assignment from Friday 5PM to Sunday 9PM.  Therefore this assignment must be done on the weekend and NOT during computer class or during study.  It is to keep your mind working over the weekend. :)

The student will receive an extra credit homework assignment.

NOTE - I will not take this assignment on any other day - parents please NO NOTES or EMAILS.  This is to also teach your child responsibility. 

Thank you

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Please feel free to email me at -------- plamontagne@pelhamsd.org

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Grading

10% - Formative
30% Quizzes - formative
60% Test/projects/essays -summative

For school grading policy please go to that page. Thank you.


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Phone calls - if you need to reach me please call the school at 603-635-2321 The best time to reach me is during my planning period from 7:45AM to 8:45AM. Otherwise please leave a message with the office as to the best time that I can reach you...........Thank you :)

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Communicating with Parents to Assist in Student Learning

Parents PLEASE join me the first Wednesday of each month in room 102 6:30PM to 7:30PM Bring your own coffee, I will supply the cookies! Do you ever wonder what your child is doing during English class? Well, come in and find out. During this class we will go over the English book, my web-site, both formative and summative assessments along with upcoming assignments.    

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No Child Left Behind:

The Football Version


  Author Unknown*



l. All teams must make the state playoffs, and all will win the championship. If a team does not win the championship, they will be on probation until they are the champions, and coaches will be held accountable.

2. All kids will be expected to have the same football skills at the same time and in the same conditions. No exceptions will be made for interest in football, a desire to perform athletically, or genetic abilities or disabilities. ALL KIDS WILL PLAY FOOTBALL AT A PROFICIENT LEVEL.

3. Talented players will be asked to work out on their own without instruction. This is because the coaches will be using all their instructional time with the athletes who aren't interested in football, have limited athletic ability, or whose parents don't like football.

4. Games will be played year round, but statistics will only be kept in the 4th, 8th, and 11th games.

5. This will create a New Age of sports where every school is expected to have the same level of talent and all teams will reach the same minimal goals.

If no child gets ahead, then no child will be left behind.

                   
We must become the change we want to see.

                             
—Mahatma Gandhi

 
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