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Welcome back to high school !

Welcome back to high school !. Warm-up: The four years we spend in high school leave quite and impression. You either loved those years or hated them! What is your response to the following statement? “High school rocked!” Text your feelings to the following number: 37607

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Welcome back to high school !

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  1. Welcome back to high school! Warm-up: The four years we spend in high school leave quite and impression. You either loved those years or hated them! What is your response to the following statement? “High school rocked!” Text your feelings to the following number: 37607 Text 446015 for TRUE Text 446016 for FALSE DO NOT worry…I will have no way of determining your phone number (neither will the company); this is done through a website.

  2. The Basics • Office Hours: Monday from 3:00-4:30 • kpowell@sanjuan.edu (best form of communication) • I use my webpage often! I place agendas on there at the end of each day. I write general messages to students and parents, and I communicate important dates for each grade level on the grade level pages. In fact, if I don’t finish this presentation, it will be uploaded to the “files” section on the main page of my website. http://teacher.sanjuan.edu/webpages/kpowell/ • Q updated approximately every two weeks; watch comment boxes next to assignments for occasional extra feedback

  3. Course Structure • Homework: • Ongoing: OR novels (fishbowl presentations 12/2 through 12/11) • Ongoing: IRAs (Informational Reading Assignments): two projects this semester; due dates and instructions given to students this Friday (watch for handout) • Ongoing: students study vocabulary words (juniors—quiz every two weeks; frosh—quiz every week) • Occasional classwork that spills over

  4. Course Structure • Classwork: • ERWC units: informational reading activitiesdesigned by CA state school system to help students become better college-level writers (AT LEAST two this year) • Discussions: partner, small group, and whole class discussions (usually led by “student teachers”) that focus on the text(s) we are reading in class • Warm-ups:(three types) (collected every two weeks) • SAT Questions of the Day • Vocabulary (word cells for frosh; SAT focus for jrs.) • Creative

  5. Course Structure • Classwork (Cont’) • In-class writing: longer essays and short, constructed responses; use of Google Chromebooks for most of this…if all goes as planned! • Critical Thinking Thursdays (may NOT occur on a Thursday, but it sounds good): topic will usually be related to the current unit, but might be just a “things-that-make-you-go-hmmm” topic; often TED Talks; perhaps twice a month

  6. Other Important Items • Technology: • We will use Google Docs, turnitin.com, PollEverywhere, perhaps a Twitter-like educational discussion feed in class, and PowerPoint or Prezi • Students MIGHT view videos of me (or another teacher) explaining concepts at home so that they can use concepts in class and replay video for better understanding • IMPORTANT:If technology is not available for students at home, please let me know. I am here quite late after school and have a student computer in my room. I will work with technology issues. Just keep me informed of the situation.

  7. Other Important Items • Grading • Categories are weighted • Up to three quizzes can be made up for a better score and, most importantly, for student mastery • Some essays can be re-written • Please read grading section of syllabus carefully • Students will be given a unit “checklist” for each unit we study; this will inform them of what they should be able to accomplish, how they will be assessed, and allow them to reflect on their learning process

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