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Welcome to Back to School Night 2015-2016

Welcome to Back to School Night 2015-2016. English 3 Ms. Iacullo & Ms. Storti. Goals of the Course. Students will read a variety of literature Students will develop their writing skills Students will develop their speaking and listening skills Students will develop vocabulary.

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Welcome to Back to School Night 2015-2016

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  1. Welcome to Back to School Night2015-2016 English 3 Ms. Iacullo & Ms. Storti

  2. Goals of the Course • Students will read a variety of literature • Students will develop their writing skills • Students will develop their speaking and listening skills • Students will develop vocabulary

  3. Silent Sustained Reading (SSR) • SSR is an English Dept. initiative to encourage students to experience the love of literature by enjoying a book for leisure purposes. • Each class begins with SSR • We are encouraging students to bring in books they want to read.

  4. Benefits of Co-teaching for Students • Instructional time is sustained because students are not leaving the classroom for “special help” • Students benefit from the teaching style of two teachers • Co-teachers serve as role models to students by demonstrating healthy adult interaction • More instructional time on learning because teachers can divide whole class into smaller parts • Lessons are delivered using multiple strategies (i.e. Socratic Seminars, parallel teaching, station teaching, etc.)

  5. Plays

  6. Novels

  7. Short Stories • “Young Goodman Brown”-Nathaniel Hawthorne • “Battle Royal”- Ralph Ellison • “Winter Dreams”-F. Scott Fitzgerald • “Grandpa and the Statue”-Arthur Miller

  8. PARRC What we will be focusing on: • -text analysis • -source analysis • -vocabulary (Word Webs)

  9. Essential Questions of English III • How do our time and place influence our thinking? • Are liberty and justice attainable for all? How can we balance everyone’s rights? • What makes a good citizen? • What makes something beautiful? What is beauty?

  10. Student Expectations Students are expected: • to put forth their best effort in this class • to read the texts and complete all work on time • to participate in class discussions and presentations

  11. Homework • Homework significantly impacts students’ grades. • Livingston School District Policy: • 15 percent of each marking period’s grades

  12. Grading • Homework and Classwork • Tests and Quizzes • Writing • Presentations and Projects

  13. Writing Lab Information When: During lunch Where: Media Center You are cordially invited to join us for a Personalized One-on-One Consultation with any of our expert English teachers!

  14. In Closing… Ways to communicate with us: • Co-teaching Web page (posted assignments and notes) Storti/Iacullo E-mail addresses : • diacullo@livingston.org • jstorti@livingston.org

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