Course Title and Description: College
Preparatory Senior English / Honors Senior English
This course is an integrated language arts course for the
college-bound students who wish to pursue a challenging,
integrated curriculum. The course is based upon a survey of
English literature from the Anglo-Saxon Period through the
Twentieth Century. Refinement of usage and composition skills,
reading comprehension in literature, development of vocabulary,
and encouragement in the areas of speaking and listening will be
emphasized. Some outside reading and research will be required.
Course Objectives: The student will -become
knowledgeable of major English authors and their works.
-correlate developments in literature with those in history,
art, and music. -improve written fluency and precision by
writing regularly in descriptive, expository, and analytical
modes. -communicate reactions to literature orally for a variety
of audiences, situations, and purposes. -polish usage of
standard edited English. -expand vocabulary proficiency. -refine
research skills. -master academic knowledge and skills
objectives.
Materials:
Literature: The British Tradition $61.97
Writing and Grammar: Communication in Action
$25.97
Vocabulary Workshop $7.35
Teacher-prepared handouts Selected novels and plays
Units Studied:
- Anglo-Saxon Period
- Medieval Period
- English Renaissance
- Restoration and
- Eighteenth Century
- Romantic Period
- Victorian Period
- Twentieth Century
- Grammar/Usage/Composition units integrated with literature
SAT Preparation and Strategies
- Vocabulary in context and independently
Grading Scale: The Gwinnett County grading scale is
90-100=A, 80-89=B, 74-79=C, 70-73=D, and 69 and below=F.
Major tests, projects, compositions, vocabulary, homework,
and daily work will comprise the student’s average. The semester
exam will be comprehensive and will count 20% of the average.
(Performance Exam- 10% & Objective Exam 10%) I will be available
for extra help by appointment.
Email: Doug_Nichols@gwinnett.k12.ga.us
Grading Policies:
35%
Tests, Essays, and Projects
20% Quizzes
25% Homework/Classwork
20% Final Exam (10% written final, 10% end of course exam)
- No
late homework or classwork will be accepted for any reason
unless due to an excused absence. Late projects and essays,
however, will be accepted late for a penalty of –10% per day
late.
- If, on the day a major
project or essay is due, you miss class because you check in,
check out, or go on a field trip, I expect that the work will be
turned in to me that day, not the next day you return.
- When you
return to school after an excused absence, you have five days to
make up the work you have missed unless you and I make other
arrangements. You are responsible for checking with me about
make-up work after class. All tests and quizzes must be made up
after school.
- Students
must be on time and prepared with blue or black pens, standard
ruled loose-leaf notebook paper, and textbooks. Students must be
in their seats by the time the tardy bell rings.
- All
assignments will conform to standards stated in class. All work
will be in blue or black ink. No writing will be on the back of
the page. The top of the first page will identify the student
and the assignment. Rules for standard English (spelling,
punctuation, capitalization) apply to all assignments.
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Intentional plagiarism is cheating and will result in a zero for
the assignment and an office referral.
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