English Class Guidelines and Procedures

1. English Class Guidelines and Procedures

2. RULE #1….RESPECT This includes • Absolutely NO talking while I am talking • Respecting others in class • Please no smart comments during class on what we are studying, what is said, etc., and please no talking back; please answer with “yes,” and see me after class with a problem You will receive ONE warning before a referral

3. Restroom/Locker Passes • 10 passes for the entire semester • Must give me a pass to go to the restroom or locker (includes getting water or tissue) • No pass = no leaving the room • Limit = two passes per week • For each pass left at the end of the semester, you will receive one point added to a test grade (10 possible points).

4. Materials • Bring all materials/assignments to class everyday (books, pencils, pens, etc.) • Do NOT leave them in here • Leaving books in locker = a pass to borrow one from Ms. Pournelle if she has any in the room • Leaving assignments in locker = a pass to retrieve them • You are required to have a book cover for your textbook within one week of the textbook being assigned. If you don’t, you will receive a referral for failure to comply.

5. Materials (continued) • Borrow from a friend

6. Make-Up Work • YOUR RESPONSIBILITY!!! • YOU must make up work within 3 days of excused absences • Unexcused absences = 0; only 7 parent notes allowed and then assignments will count as 0s • Quizzes and tests will more than likely have to be made up after school • Ask a group member about handouts, and see the “Make-Up Work Station” in my room as well • Check your period’s envelope for any handouts you missed (YOU MAY STILL HAVE TO COPY A FRIEND’S NOTES IF WE TOOK NOTES ON THE HANDOUT!) • SIGN UP with me to make up tests/quizzes after school! • Find a reliable friend you can count on for notes • I WILL NOT ASK YOU for work. Go to a group member FIRST; you may come to me with additional questions.

7. Class Discussion • Raise your hand and be acknowledged before speaking • Show respect for others’ opinions

8. Starting Class • Tardy = Not in the class room BEFORE the bell rings • 3 tardies = write-up • Bell = NO TALKING, in seats, copying and correcting DOL (and writing journals on certain days)

9. Warm-Up: Model Sentences • Keep in Model Sentences section of your notebooks to keep with you • When the bell rings, you must write the following on your Model Sentence page: • The DATE • The sentence • Follow directions for that day (you will have the same sentence all week) • Model Sentences will be timed • I will regularly check for completion/effort and will take up on some days. • Every Friday, you will have a class work grade over the sentence we have completed that week.

10. Literature Journals • Journals will be kept in a section of your notebook that you keep with you • There will not be a journal every day, but if there is, the topic will be on the board and will usually deal with the literature we are reading. • They will usually be completed along with DOL at the beginning of class. • Journals will taken up once every 9 weeks • If there is a journal, it must include the following: • The date (journals will be checked and graded by date, so PLEASE include that!) • A paragraph consisting of at least 4-5 sentences

11. Homework • MOST homework will be READING outside of class. • I will assign pages or chapters to read, and you will have a READING CHECK the next day as a homework grade. • These CANNOT be made up. If you do not read and don’t know the answers, the grade stands. • Any homework assignment that we go over in class the day it’s due CANNOT be made up. • Any assignment that we do not go over (essays, etc.), you will be allowed ONE day to turn it in late for a 75. • For major assignments (essays, projects, etc.), you will be allowed ONE day to turn them in late. Points for promptness will be deducted on the rubric.

12. Ms. Pournelle does not want to see… • Cell phones, text messaging, iPods, CD players, ear buds (even in hallway) etc. (School policy: Cell phones will be taken up if they are seen IN CLASS. You may use them before and after school, at lunch, and between classes!) • Students out of dress code = trip to the office/referral • Food, drink, or gum in class • Applying make-up in class, brushing hair, looking in compacts, etc. • Completing work, reading textbooks, etc. from OTHER classes. The work will be taken up. • CHEATING (punishable by a zero and/or an immediate write-up) – no mercy • Getting out of desks without permission (Please stay seated until the bell rings.) • Packing up before given permission • Spraying cologne, perfume, or ANY scented spray/lotion!!!!

13. Grades • All grades are out of 100 points • Class work, homework, and participation = 22% • Quizzes, minor essays, and minor projects = 23% • Tests, major essays, major projects, Recitations, research = 35% - Final Exam/EOCT = 20%

14. Grades 22% 20% 35% 23%

15. IF YOU FINISH AN ASSIGNMENT EARLY… • Complete an assignment I have for you on the board, or. . . • READ!!!! • READ!!! • READ!!! • I NEVER want to see you sitting at your desk doing nothing, putting your head down, OR working on any work (reading, homework, etc.) from any other class (I WILL TAKE IT UP!). • If you don’t have an assignment, ALWAYS get out a book of your own, or GO GET A BOOK OR MAGAZINE FROM THE SHELF!

16. Groups will… • be set for the 1st 9 weeks (maybe longer) • work together in class on some assignments • Work on some projects • Compete for points with review games

17. Remind 101 • Don’t depend on it!! • I will use it sometimes, not all the time! • All parents and students, send a text to this number: 912-386-0383 • 10th grade: type @vhs10 as the text and send it • 9th grade honors: type @vhs9 as the text and send it

18. As a review, remember that . . .

19. VHS DRESS CODE REMINDER

20. SHIRTS VHS

21. PANTS

22. Shoes