1. English 10 Honors PreAP Jennifer Showalter room 019 Roger Kugler room 031 Andy Lang Room 221

2. Janie& HenryJanie& Henry

3. Jennifer Showalter  About me:  English 10 (PreAP, Reg, SVL), Journalism  JC Journal Newspaper Advisor  Knitting Club Advisor  15 th year teaching at LC, Spokane native  BA English, Minor Journalism WSU.  MA English Literature EWU.  Married to Kevin Showalter, of the Cheney Showalters  7 ½-year-old girl, Janie Kayleen  3-year-old boy, Henry Thomas

4. Useful Information:  jennifersh@spokaneschools.org Messages—email is fastest or 354-6940 jennifersh@spokaneschools.org  Assignment calendar: www.lctigers.com > staff siteswww.lctigers.com  Available hours: 6:30 am to 1:35 pm (I leave after 5 th period to pick up my kids).  My grades and the assignment calendar (on my LC website) are updated on a weekly basis  Worried about grades? The only scores for concern now are zeros or incompletes.

5. PreAP 10 Objectives  WRITING  analyzing and composing in various MODES  READING  Close reading  Author’s Purpose  Literary Features  Analyzing Rhetoric  Annotating to analyze/evaluate  RESEARCH  Reinforcing the Modern Language Association (MLA) rules for writing

6. PreAP 10 Objectives Continued  VOCABULARY  In context  Greek/Latin root  Lists 1-7 (review from last year)  Lists 8-17 (possibly to 20 this year)  GRAMMAR (every Thursday)  ASSESSMENT PREPARATION:  AP language (grade 11) and AP literature (grade 12) tests  The SAT and Smarter Balance Common Core WA State Assessment (junior year)

7. Texts used/covered in Class FALL  Summer Reading: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry  All year:  Springboard curriculum/assessments  The MLA Handbook—7 th ed.  Current: Independent Choice Novel  October: The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair  November: Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe

8. Texts used/covered in Class: SPRING  February: Antigone, by Sophocles  March: Choice Non-Fiction text POSSIBLE SPRING TEXTS TBD:  Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare  101 Great American Poems, Dover Edition  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.  Choice non-fiction text

9. The PSAT  Wednesday, October 15, 8 am @ LCHS  Cost—FREE!  Bring: #2 pencils, calculator, snacks  Required for juniors and sophomores (freshmen and seniors will be completing career and college readiness activities)  The room assignment poster, for all students, will be posted in the main hall by the student office a few days before the test.  Great practice for the SAT  Students will (?) receive practice books  Will take the PSAT again Junior year to qualify for National Merit Scholarships

10. Weighted Grading System 30%70% Grading Category Percent Formative Assessments Practices, Quizzes, Drafts Summative Assessments Tests, Final drafts READING 40% Grammar (10%)(3%)(7%) Parts of Speech, Parts of a Sentence, Phrases, Clauses Vocabulary (10%)(3%)(7%) Greek and Latin Roots Content Vocabulary Comprehension, Annotation, Analysis, Evaluation, etc. (20%)(6%)(14%) WRITING 60% Essays AP/SAT/HSPE/ District Unit Assessments(30%)(9%)(21%) Brief or paragraph writing (20%)(6%)(14%) Journal, Reflective, Creative writing (10%)(3%)(7%)

11. Weighted Grading System:  Honors accountability, responsibility, and diligence by giving credit for practicing class skills through formative assessments  Missing or being unsuccessful on some assignments will not wreck a student’s overall grade.  Reward and account for skill acquisition by counting final assessments as the majority of the student’s grade.  No late work policy for daily work: Formative assessments should be completed in order to best practice and master skills. However, no late work will be accepted for formative (practice) assessments.  Redos for summative work: Students will have multiple opportunities to demonstrate, retest, or rewrite as necessary to prove that they have acquired and mastered skills over the course of the year.

12. Looking Forward to a great year together! Please contact me if you have any questions.