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Welcome to our classroom web site. This site has been designed to assist you in all of your assignments. You will find links to useful web sites, be able to keep track of home work due dates, plus several links designed to entertain and inspire.
Since this is school, lets start out with the nitty-gritty...
Classroom Rules
1. Respect for self and others. Everyone will be expected to give a listening ear throughout the year, we will respect everyone's opinion and learn to tastefully and respectfully critique the work we do in class.
2. Participation. A large part of our classroom will center around group activities such peer writing groups. Everyone will be expected to not only have work done on time, but also be ready to critique each others work.
3. Attendance. Since such a large part of our time will be working together, your attendance is crucial to your grade.
4. Attitude. Come to class with a ready to work attitude. We will have to learn to accept criticism as well, learning not to take offense to others suggestions
Homework:
Emulate a Poet Assignment Due December 12
Investigative Reporting Article Due December 13
Author Biographies Due December 21
Now for the fun stuff!!!!
Suggested Readings:
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Piano by Władysław Szpilman
Anything by William Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, J. K. Rowling, Mark Twain, John Updike. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, William Carlos Williams, Pablo Neruda.
JUST READ!!!!
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
~ Joseph Addison
Internet Links:
A web site designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem on each of the 180 days of the school year.
A great tool for writing and researching papers.
This site allows you to read texts on-line, access study guides for the readings, as well as do other research.
Site Last updated 11/25/07
