Oak Grove High School

Go Warriors!

2011-2012

Mrs. Stephanie Slay

 

English III Supply List

three ring binder w/loose leaf paper

Highlighter

Blue or Black Pen

White ruled index cards (4x6)

Teacher Supplies - Please choose one of the following:

white copy paper

color copy paper

kleenex

antibacterial hand sanitizer

pencils & pens

highlighters

printer ink (HP Deskjet F380)

Thank You For Your Support!

Homework & Test Dates will be posted on activeparent.com

Honors English III

2011- 2012 Syllabus

Stephanie Slay

Conference Period: 1stBlock

E-mail available through www.schoolnotes.com

School phone number: 601-264-8309

Class Focus

The focus of English III is on reading, analyzing, and writing about American literature. Students are expected to be proficient in grammar, so there will be no in-depth study of grammar unless specific grammatical problems arise in student writing and/or speaking. Each student must read what is assigned; I cannot conduct a discussion about a selection if only a few students have read the assignment. I will give reading quizzes occasionally to make sure that students are reading and keeping up with the material.

Note taking is extremely important in this class! Students should be prepared to take notes during every class meeting. If a student missed a class, or a portion of a class, it is the student’s responsibility to get missed-notes from another student or the teacher.. I will be happy to clarify any points or answer any questions. Notes are especially important because I do not give detailed reviews before tests.

Make-Up Work

Students are responsible for getting make-up work the day they return to class. If an assignment or test is announced before the absence, the student will be held responsible for it the day they return to class. Ten points per day will be deducted from late assignments.

Supplies

• Loose-leaf binder with dividers. Please do not purchase a spiral-bound notebook for class use. I tend to give a lot of handouts, and they are much easier to keep in a spiral-bound notebook.

• 4x6 ruled index cards for research paper (white only)

• Blue or black ink pens

• Highlighter

• Students who prefer to highlight and take notes in their novels should purchase a personal copy. Otherwise, a class set is provided.

Teacher Supplies: Please choose one of the following:

• Kleenex

• Germ-X

• color or white copy paper

Class Outline

The following assignment/reading list is designed to serve as a basic outline of our class. Readings may be added to or deleted as time and student comprehension dictates.

All Semester:

• Bell work will be assigned everyday. We will concentrate on vocabulary and proofreading skills.

• Review and apply literature terms

• Learn about relevant American authors

• Build vocabulary – Specific terms unique to the reading selections

• Review and practice ACT skills

Week 1 - Grammar Review, Literature Terms, ACT Skills, & Persuasive Writing Sample

Unit 1: Early American History & Figurative Language

Historical background – text and teacher notes

Unit 2: The American Tradition

Song of the Sky Loom, p. 84

Iroquois Constitution, p.76

Jonathan Edwards, from “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” p. 118

Novel Study - The Crucible

Unit 3: The American Revolution (Rhetoric & Propaganda)

Patrick Henry, “Speech to the Virginia Convention,” p. 152

Propaganda Poster Project

Thomas Paine, from Crisis, No. 1, p. 159

Ben Franklin – excerpt from his autobiography

Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, p. 171

Abigail Adams

Jean de Crevecoeur

Unit 4: New England Renaissance Prose (Transcendentalism)

Edgar Allen Poe, “The Pit and the Pendulum,” p. 225

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Self-Reliance, p. 252

Thoreau, from Walden, p. 258

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Rappaccini's Daughter

Modern Transcendentalism – Dead Poet's Society

Unit 5: New England Renaissance Poetry

Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven,” p. 338,

Emily Dickinson poetry, pp. 347-348

Novel Study - Of Mice and Men

Unit 6: Slavery and the Civil War

Introduction to Slave Narratives

Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, p. 364

Slave spirituals, including “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” p. 370; Go Down Moses; Follow the Drinking Gourd

Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, p. 374

Unit 7: Frontiers

Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour,” p. 450

Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” p. 455 and/or “Huck Finn” (video)

Chief Joseph, “I Will Fight No More Forever,” p. 464 (speech) / video available

Novel Study - The Great Gatsby (novel project)

Honors English III Research Paper Guidelines

2011 Fall Semester

S. Slay

Topic: All eleventh grade students are required to write a research paper. The topic must be how the life or times of an American author affected his or her work. Be sure to use appropriate transitions . The paper should include supporting materials that contain sufficient and specific evidence (cited w/in the paper).

• Topic Due – September 9, 2011

• Research Days – September, 13 -16,19,20

• Final Paper is Due – October 20, 2011(revised)

Guidelines and Due Dates

Basic Information:

• ·This is a requirement of the course.

• ·The body of the paper must be three-typed pages following MLA style.

• An MLA work cited page must also be included. This totals four pages.

• · When typing your paper, double-space it and use Times New Roman font, size 12.

• · This is a research paper and not a creative writing assignment. The paper should contain a compilation of ideas, opinions, and theories put forth by experts in certain fields rather than personal ideas and opinions. As the author of this paper, your job will be mostly that of an editor – deciding what information to include and exclude; where to put the information; and how to make a smooth transition from one set of ideas to another.

Sources: You are required to use at LEAST four sources; try to get at least five in case one or two do not have good usable information. No encyclopedias may be used – not even those on CD-ROM (no wikipedia). All sources must have a copyright date. The sources must include at least two different types. Choose from the following: Internet, books, magazine/journal articles, and newspaper articles. The sources you select should be as recent as possible. In order for me to evaluate your documentation, I must have the materials from which you citied the information. That means I must have photocopies of the following: magazine articles – the entire article; newspaper articles – the page from which the article was printed (including page numbers); books- copy the title page, the page with the copyright date, and the pages from which you took the information (whether quoted, paraphrased, or summarized); Internet- the entire article along with the web address.

Materials Needed:

• · 3x5 ruled note cards (at least 75 / white only)

• · Large cardboard or plastic expandable folder with a flap or a fastener

• · A plain two pocket folder. No plastic report covers.

Thesis Statement– We will discuss thesis statements in class. The thesis statement is due Thursday, September 22, 2011.

Source Cards– The first five source cards for the research paper are due Thursday, September 23, 2011 (MLA documentation style).

Note Cards -Follow the directions taught in class. Make sure you do not plagiarize – even on your note cards (paraphrase & summarize). All information should be in your own words except direct quotes, which you must enclose in quotation marks. You should use no more than two direct quotes in the paper, and they should not be lengthy (nothing over 40 words). Bring your sources to class every day. You will be given some time to write note cards in class. Remember to put the page number on each card. A total of 50 note cards are necessary to write a good paper. You will receive two points for each card. I’ll keep a daily tally. Your daily grade will be a ZERO if you do not meet this deadline each day : 10 cards due by the end of class Friday, September 23, 20 cards due Monday, September 26, 30 cards due Tuesday, September 27, 40 cards due Wednesday, September 28, and all 50 are due Thursday, September 29.

Outline: Your outline should be no more than one and a half pages TYPED. Due October 4, 2011

Rough Draft: Due October 6, 2011 / We will peer edit in class; therefore, all students must have their rough draft on this day to receive credit.

Type in Library: October 7, 12, 13, 14, 17

Final Draft: There is no excuse for not turning your paper in on the due date unless you have been in the hospital for an extended period of time. You must turn in your final draft on this date: October 18, 2011 (all papers are due in my room by 8:15 AM)

Technology Clause: Please note that failures of technology (i.e. “my computer crashed,” “the file won't open,” “my printer is out of ink,” etc.) will not lead to an extension of any deadline! Please do all that you can to insure that your paper will be turned in on time (back up files, plan ahead, buy ink, etc.)! I will not accept papers via email. No excuse will result in a paper being turned in late w/out penalty! Points will be deducted each day the paper is late.

Organize Your Materials:

• In a pocket folder:

1. Final typed paper (5 pages: title page, 3 pages of body, and reference page)

2. Rough draft that has been corrected (in side pocket)

3. Peer editing sheet someone in class has completed on your paper.

4. Original graded thesis and outline.

• In a large accordion folder:

  1. Photocopies of sources highlighted with the source card for each one stapled on top of it and all sources bound together with a rubber band and labeled USED.

  2. Note cards labeled USED(bound together with a rubber band)

  3. Note cards labeled NOT USED (bound together with a rubber band)

  4. Source cards and research articles labeled NOT USED

  IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are absent on the day the paper is due then you must send it by someone else (friend/parent), and it must be delivered to me in my room no later than 8:15 AM on the due date. This applies to all deadlines – source cards, note cards, outline, thesis, and rough draft. If you do not turn these assignments in on the correct day, you will get a 0 on the work, and you will still have to turn the work in to pass the research paper. If you turn in the final draft late (even if its just a few minutes after the due time period), you will lose 11 points from all four major grades. If it is two days late, you will lose 22 points from all four major grades. I will not listen to excuses on due dates – I’ve heard them all!

  Break down of grades:

• ·Thesis statement – one daily grade

• · Source cards – daily grades

• . Outline – daily grade

• ·Note cards (50) – daily grades (each card is worth 2 points each = 100%.)

• · Rough Draft- Quiz grade (must also include peer editing sheet)

• ·Final Copy – FOUR TEST GRADES (Format, Organization, Grammar, & Content)

MLA Documentation

General Format

MLA style specifies guidelines for formatting manuscripts and using the English language in writing. MLA style also provides writers with a system for referencing their sources through parenthetical citation in their essays and Works Cited pages.

Writers who properly use MLA also build their credibility by demonstrating accountability to their source material. Most importantly, the use of MLA style can protect writers from accusations of plagiarism, which is the purposeful or accidental uncredited use of source material by other writers.

General Guidelines

• Type your paper on a computer and print it out on standard, white 8.5 x 11-inch paper.

• Double-space the text of your paper, and use Times New Roman. The font size should be 12 pt.

• Leave only one space after periods or other punctuation marks (unless otherwise instructed by your instructor).

• Set the margins of your document to 1 inch on all sides.

• Indent the first line of paragraphs one half-inch from the left margin. MLA recommends that you use the Tab key as opposed to pushing the Space Bar five times.

• Create a header that numbers all pages consecutively in the upper right-hand corner, one-half inch from the top and flush with the right margin. (Note: Your instructor may ask that you omit the number on your first page. Always follow your instructor's guidelines.)

• Use italics throughout your essay for the titles of longer works and, only when absolutely necessary, providing emphasis.

• Works Cited page

Formatting the First Page of Your Paper:

• Do not make a title page for your paper unless specifically requested.

• In the upper left-hand corner of the first page, list your name, your instructor's name, the course, and the date. Again, be sure to use double-spaced text.

• Double space again and center the title. Do not underline, italicize, or place your title in quotation marks; write the title in Title Case (standard capitalization), not in all capital letters.

• Use quotation marks and/or italics when referring to other works in your title, just as you would in your text: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as Morality Play; Human Weariness in "After Apple Picking"

• Double space between the title and the first line of the text.

• Create a header in the upper right-hand corner that includes your last name, followed by a space with a page number; number all pages consecutively with Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.), one-half inch from the top and flush with the right margin. (Note: Your instructor or other readers may ask that you omit last name/page number header on your first page. Always follow instructor guidelines.)

Here is a sample of the first page of a paper in MLA style:

MLA – Style Guide

Basic In-Text Citation Rules (citing in the paper)

In MLA style, referring to the works of others in your text is done by using what is known as parenthetical citation. This method involves placing relevant source information in parentheses after a quote or a paraphrase.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1.) upon the source medium (e.g. Print, Web, DVD) and (2.) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited (bibliography) page.

• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text, must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry in the Works Cited List.

In-Text Citations (citing a source w/in your paper): Author-Page Style

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence.

For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford U.P., 1967. Print.

In-text Citations for Print Sources with Known Author

For Print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

For example:

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as "symbol-using animals" (3). OR Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry in the Works Cited:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: U of California P, 1966. Print.

In-text Citations for Print Sources with No Known Author

When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name. Place the title in quotation marks if it's a short work (e.g. articles) or italicize it if it's a longer work (e.g. plays, books, television shows, entire websites) and provide a page number.

For Example:

We see so many global warming hot spots in North America likely because this region has “more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . . ” (“Impact of Global Warming” 6).

In this example, since the reader does not know the author of the article, an abbreviated title of the article appears in the parenthetical citation which corresponds to the full name of the article which appears first at the left-hand margin of its respective entry in the Works Cited. Thus, the writer includes the title in quotation marks as the signal phrase in the parenthetical citation in order to lead the reader directly to the source on the Works Cited page. The Works Cited entry appears as follows:

“The Impact of Global Warming in North America.” GLOBAL WARMING: Early Signs. 1999. Web. 23 Mar. 2009.

It's important to know that parenthetical citations and Works Cited pages allow readers to know which sources you used in writing your essay, so that they can either verify your interpretation of the sources or use them in their own scholarly work.

Author-Page Citation for Classic and Literary Works with Multiple Editions

Page numbers are always required, but additional citation information can help literary scholars, who may have a different edition of a classic work like Marx and Engels's The Communist Manifesto. In such cases, give the page number of your edition (making sure the edition is listed in your Works Cited page, of course) followed by a semicolon, and then the appropriate abbreviations for volume (vol.), book (bk.), part (pt.), chapter (ch.), section (sec.), or paragraph (par.).

For example:

Marx and Engels described human history as marked by class struggles (79; ch. 1).

Citing Authors with the Same Last Names

Sometimes more information is necessary to identify the source from which a quotation is taken. For instance, if two or more authors have the same last name, provide both authors' first initials (or even the authors' full name if different authors share initials) in your citation.

For example:

Although some medical ethicists claim that cloning will lead to designer children (R. Miller 12), others note that the advantages for medical research outweigh this consideration (A. Miller 46).

Citing a Work by Multiple Authors

For a source with three or fewer authors, list the authors' last names in the text or in the parenthetical citation:

For example:

Smith, Yang, and Moore argue that tougher gun control is not needed in the United States (76).

The authors state "Tighter gun control in the United States erodes Second Amendment rights" (Smith, Yang, and Moore 76).

For a source with more than three authors, use the work's bibliographic information as a guide for your citation. Provide the first author's last name followed by et al. or list all the last names.

Jones et al. counter Smith, Yang, and Moore's argument by noting that the current spike in gun violence in America compels law makers to adjust gun laws (4).

Or

Legal experts counter Smith, Yang, and Moore's argument by noting that the current spike in gun violence in America compels law makers to adjust gun laws (Jones et al. 4).

Or

Jones, Driscoll, Ackerson, and Bell counter Smith, Yang, and Moore's argument by noting that the current spike in gun violence in America compels law makers to adjust gun laws (4).

Citing Multiple Works by the Same Author

If you cite more than one work by a particular author, include a shortened title for the particular work from which you are quoting to distinguish it from the others.

Lightenor has argued that computers are not useful tools for small children ("Too Soon" 38), though he has acknowledged elsewhere that early exposure to computer games does lead to better small motor skill development in a child's second and third year ("Hand-Eye Development" 17).

Additionally, if the author's name is not mentioned in the sentence, you would format your citation with the author's name followed by a comma, followed by a shortened title of the work, followed, when appropriate, by page numbers:

Visual studies, because it is such a new discipline, may be "too easy" (Elkins, "Visual Studies" 63).

Citing the Bible

In your first parenthetical citation, you want to make clear which Bible you're using (and underline or italicize the title), as each version varies in its translation, followed by book (do not italicize or underline), chapter and verse. For example:

Ezekiel saw "what seemed to be four living creatures," each with faces of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle (New Jerusalem Bible, Ezek. 1.5-10).

If future references employ the same edition of the Bible you’re using, list only the book, chapter, and verse in the parenthetical citation.

Sources from the Internet

With more and more scholarly work being posted on the Internet, you may have to cite research you have completed in virtual environments. While many sources on the Internet should not be used for scholarly work, some Web sources are perfectly acceptable for research. When creating in-text citations for electronic, film, or Internet sources, remember that your citation must reference the source in your Works Cited.

Sometimes writers are confused with how to craft parenthetical citations for electronic sources because of the absence of page numbers, but often, these sorts of entries do not require any sort of parenthetical citation at all. For electronic and Internet sources, follow the following guidelines:

• Include in the text the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry that corresponds to the citation (e.g. author name, article name, website name, film name).

• You do not need to give paragraph numbers or page numbers based on your Web browser’s print preview function.

• Unless you must list the website name in the signal phrase in order to get the reader to the appropriate entry, do not include URLs in-text. Only provide partial URLs such as when the name of the site includes, for example, a domain name, like CNN.com or Forbes.com as opposed to writing out http://www.cnn.com or http://www.forbes.com.

Electronic Sources: last name, first name. “title.” Website or Book Title (in italics), copyright date. Publisher name and date,if available. Date you printed the article.

For example:

Garcia, Elizabeth. "Herzog: a Life." Online Film Critics Corner. The Film School of New Hampshire, 2 May 2002. Web. 8 Jan. 2009.

Stolley, Karl. "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The OWL at Purdue. 10 May 2006. Purdue University Writing Lab. 12 May 2006 .

Capitalization and Punctuation

• Capitalize each word in the titles of articles, books, etc. but do not capitalize articles (an, A, the) , prepositions, or conjunctions unless one is the first word of the title/subtitle.

• Use italics for titles of larger works (books, magazines) and quotation marks for titles of shorter works (poems, article title).

• Entries are listed alphabetically by the author's last name. Do not list titles (Dr. Sir, PhD, MA, etc)

• Alphabetize using the article title if the work does not have an author.

STUDENTS WERE GIVEN A MLA STYLE GUIDE PACKET WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29. THIS PACKET INCLUDES IN TEXT CITATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION FOR THE WORKS CITED PAGE.

Welcome to Public Speaking!

Public Speaking Pacing Guide

Nine - Week Elective

S. Slay

Week 1

• Introductory Speeches (outline and sample provided) 2-3 days

• Fear Inventory - 1 day

• Introduction to course (organizing and delivery / No Brainers video part 1) 2 days

Week 2

• How Communication Affects Your Life (speech model, public speaking in different careers, chapter vocabulary,)

• How to plan a speech / Functions of the introduction, body and conclusion

• Basic outlining skills

Week 3

• Delivery Skills (part 2 of video)

• Pet Peeve Speech (3 - 4 days)

• Personal Experience Speech

Week 4

Week 5

• Organizational patterns

• Informative Speech (research skills, visual aid and APA documentation)

Week 6

• Listening Skills (2 days)

• Nonverbal Communication

Week 7

• Propaganda Techniques

• Introduce Persuasive Speaking

• Commercial presentations ( with a partner)

Week 8

• Persuasive Speeches (Research and APA documentation)

Week 9

• Review and Exam

Note:

• Students must provide a medical excusse in order to make up speeches. It is the responsibility of the student to ask for work missed due to absences.

Public Speaking

CLASS OBJECTIVES:

• Develop proficient Speaking Skill

• Develop Listening Skills

• Gain Confidence through speaking assignments

• Cycle of Communication

• Non-verbal communication

• Research and analyze data

• Writing Introductions, Conclusions and Outlines

• Speeches: Introduction, Pet Peeve, Informative, Personal Experience & Persuasive

Rules

• No eating or drinking in class. Water only! Absolutely NO GUM!

• Enter the class in an orderly manner. Sharpen pencil, answer bell work and prepare for class.

• Cell phones should not be seen or heard. They will be conviscated!

• Sleeping in class in not allowed!

• All backpacks, purses, and bags must be kept on the floor – not the desk.

• Students are expected to be quiet during announcements & presentations.

• Take care of personal business during class switch. Nobody will leave class unless there is an emergency!

Student Supplies:

• Blue or Black pen/ pencil

• 3 ring binder w/ paper

• 3x5 ruled index cards ( white only)

Teacher Supplies: Each student is asked to bring one of the following supplies:

• a ream of white or color paper

• germ-x

• kleenex

• a pack of page protectors