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FOR ALL AP and PRE-AP Classes:
== @@@ WHAT TO BRING TO CLASS: @@@Bring a looseleaf (preferably
bendable plastic) NOTEBOOK with pockets, paper, pens, pencils,
markers, and highlighters. Some students like to have their own
small hole-punchers. Bring tissues if you have allergies. You may
have bottled water in the room but no soda. Students are encouraged
to bring in rolls of paper towels, tissues, and hand sanitizer to
help keep the room clean.
==This year you are expected to contribute a ream of paper as part of
your school supplies. Please bring it in as soon as you can. Also,
you are encouraged to bring in hand sanitizer, paper towels, and
tissues as part of the original supply list. These are expected and
not for points.
==Your notebook (with 6-8 dividers). The items to be covered in
your notebook can be arranged in order and combinations that you
prefer, but you should be able to find everything immediately. If
you want to combine a few areas, that is fine, but make the starred
categories clear with tabs:
*Class Notes
*Vocabulary
*Terminology
*Writing
*Grammar
Literature
*Miscellaneous
You need a notebook to survive in APE ENGLISH--or any college
course.
==WRITING FOLDER--Bring a 2nd notebook with POCKETS (plastic, no
rings) to keep all your returned and revised essays. Put your name
clearly on the outside. These will be kept in the classroom and
should be updated throughout the year. The writing FOLDER PERSONS
will keep track of these in the classroom, checking to make sure
that logs are maintained with care and that absentees get returned
papers.
==@@@ E-MAIL: Much of our work will be done via E-MAIL and
downloading, so make certain that I have your most up-to-date e-mail
address. Also, make sure you know how to send documents by rich
text (see directions under the ANNOUNCEMENTS icon!) and how to do a
web search.
If you have Windows VISTA, I have adapted my home computer to receive
your documents. I will have VISTA loaded on all but one laptop, but
still please save everything in the 1997-2003 Windows version so it
will be available to others who may not have changed to VISTA.
@@@ Also, please stock up on computer paper and cartridges for your
printer!
@ (IF ABSENT ON A TEST DAY--without prior planning--YOUR TEST
probably WILL BE ORAL--or slightly adjusted).@ I like to return
tests immediately, so I seldom give the same test for make-ups.
****&&&& IF YOU ARE SICK and can't come to school on a day when
something important is due, E-MAIL IT TO ME or send it with
someone! &&&&
If you have a "window of opportunity," a length of time to turn in
an assignment, it must be turned in to me the last day. Otherwise,
the window closes, and you are left outside, without excuses.
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GRADES: Not everything will have a grade attached! I let people
rewrite some essays until we're all satisfied (at the first of the
term). Sometimes I award participation points that may only be
collected if the person is present. Since the tests are often
difficult, I balance grades by giving extra points (even
occasionally a 100-pt. "test" grade) for extra seminars. If a
project is not completed as assigned, I either deduct points or give
a complete 0. I DO NOT ACCEPT LATE WORK WITHOUT AN IMPECCABLE
EXCUSE. (Work is NEVER accepted after the end of "THE WINDOW OF
OPPORTUNITY"!)
The following are typical of the weighting:
· 100 points for tests, essays, speeches, presentations
· 400-800 points for research papers, more if an oral report is
attached (some of the points are for preliminary papers and drafts
done throughout the course before the FINAL due date).
· 0-20 points for job contributions
· Up to 100 points for selected seminar, category threads, and other
class participation activities (some are part of the non-graded
expectations).
ABBREVIATIONS TO KNOW:
TW=timed writing
GR= grammar
MC=multiple choice
TBA=to be announced
NB=notebook
VOC=vocabulary
==**NOTE: When selecting research topics for literary analysis or
current issue study, please discuss choices with your parents. These
are COLLEGE-level books and topics and may have some PG-13 content.
****BUYING BOOKS--Since AP is a college course, students should
purchase their own books so they can write and take notes in them, a
valuable study skill! Many books may be purchased on the web or in
area stores at "used" prices. I will have some texts that we will
use together and that you can take home. You must pay for anything
lost or damaged. (Do not write in the class textbooks).
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==Consider purchasing WRITE FOR COLLEGE, A Student Handbook. This
book should be available from online book companies or by special
order in local book stores. It is written and compiled by Patrick
Sebranek, Verne Meyer, and Dave Kemper, published by Write Source, a
Houghton Mifflin Company, based in Wilmington, Massachusetts (1-800-
289-4490). The ISN # for the 1997 edition I have is 0-669-44402-2
(softcover). You may view the book at Amazon.com. Just type in the
title under SEARCH.
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****GRADE NOTICE--FOR ALL!!
@@@@@ Anyone with a grade below a 70 on a TEST will need a parent
to sign the paper and return to me.
@@@@ Please have your parents call me if your grade slips below
70: 644-2329. I would rather have them call me at home in the
evening than for me to bother them at work during the day.
NEVER delay with this task!
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@@ THE WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY TALE--Words of Advice, spelled
out clearly @@
For most assignments, you will have several points for submission,
a "window" of time to get in your work. *Wise people try to get it
in EARLY so they don't risk last-minute chaos.
In other words, papers or other assignments may be turned in
any time during that period. If, however, you wait until
the last day--the "night-before" procrastinator syndrome--
catastrophes can occur.
Once the "window" is shut on the last day, no excuse will work. If
the assignment isn't in my hands at the first of your class period
on the last day of the WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY, the grade will be a
zero.
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