Genres (Subject to Change)
Digital Learning Platforms
Google Classroom
i-Ready Acheive3000/Actively Learn Procedures & GoalsHonors English Language Arts 8 offers accelerated learning and enriched academic curriculum experiences that focus on several major literary genres. Through a variety of learning strategies customized for gifted and talented / honor students, each student will become familiar with a variety of authors, literary pieces, and literary concepts. The fundamental goal of this course is to develop the use of thinking skills and processes enabling students to apply these skills and make informed decisions, understand and apply concepts, make reasonable judgments, and define, create, and implement strategies for solving problems. Cultivating each student’s ability to comprehend, apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate ideas and concepts found in readings as well as further developing effective reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills are integral components of the goal of this course.
Classroom Expectations & Rules
Grading PolicyGrading will be done on a point system and each assignment will be worth a specific number of points according to its length and level of difficulty. Students will earn points for class work, homework, bell assignments, tests, essays, projects, group work, and participation.
The total number of points accumulated will be divided by the total points possible to obtain a percentage score. Grades will then be awarded according to the following scale: 100% - 90% = A 89% - 80% = B 79% - 70% = C 69% - 60% = D 59% - 0 = F Late assignments will not be accepted. Google Classroom assignments will not be reassessed/regraded once they have already been graded and/or returned. Unless otherwise stated, assignments are due no later than five minutes after the last school bell and/or by the due date specified on an online assignment. (IDEA and 504 accommodations and modifications regarding extra time to complete assignments will be honored.) Make-up work is accepted from students who have excused absences – no later than two weeks after the original assigned date. It is the student’s responsibility to obtain make-up work from the teacher and all digital learning platforms (e.g., Google Classroom, Actively Learn, i-Ready, etc.). |