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Course Description
Students will explore critical thinking across genres, cultures, and time in order to analyze, interpret, and evaluate texts, resources, and ideas that are grade level appropriate and complex. Using these analytical and interpretation skills, students will create precise, cohesive, and mechanically sound work that is expressive, argumentative, and informative in nature.
One of the key requirements of the Common Core State Standards for Reading is that all students must be able to comprehend texts of steadily increasing complexity as they progress through school. By the time they complete the core and graduate, students must be able to read and comprehend independently and proficiently the kinds of complex texts commonly found in college and careers.
Students need opportunities to stretch their reading abilities and experience the satisfaction and pleasure of easy, fluent reading. The general movement during a given school year is toward texts of higher levels of complexity.
Grading
Formal Assignments :(Tests, Drafted Essays, and Projects) 65% of student's grade
Informal Assignments: (Classwork and Homework) 35% of student's grade
Grading Policy
Student progress is assessed in a number of areas: class participation, projects, tests, quizzes, homework, daily classwork, and final draft writings. Maximum points awarded on any assignment are based on the assignment’s relative value. Student effort is considered on all informal assignments! Homework is expected to be complete when class begins. Graded homework will receive a loss of points when turned in after this time. Late projects and final draft writing will be penalized 10 points per day late.
Tutoring Times
I am available for tutoring most days, but I will need prior notice by parents if you would like your child to come in so we can set up a time. Students who attend tutoring should come with a question or explanation about the content with which they need extra help. This is not a time to complete homework or make up work.
Classroom Expectations
Class will follow the guidelines in our Sedgefield and CMS Discipline Policies. Students are expected to come into class prepared and ready to learn. They should have all appropriate materials (including homework) with them when they walk through the door - they will not be permitted to leave the classroom to retrieve them. Every student has the right to learn in an orderly environment. Students will not disrupt the learning in my classroom.
If a child is disruptive in my classroom he or she will receive a verbal warning. After a second verbal warning, if the behavior continues, the student may be removed from the the classroom and parent contacted. Continual disruptions or severe misbehavior will lead to a referral to administration.
Email is my primary means of communication with parents. My email address is anthonyd.defazio@cms.k12.nc.us . You can also email me directly from the Sedgefield website or this website under CONTACT.
