PreAP English I
Lisa Pogue, Royse City High School
Agenda, Week of October 31 2016
This Week's Agenda: Expository Essay - Explain Whether Fear Can Ever Be an Advantage
Homework: Lord of the Flies reading assignment is due November 11th. Students have been assigned FIFTEEN PAGES to read critically and analyze text with the dialectical journal. Students are expected to KNOW the entire book, preferably by reading all 202 pages, but at the very least reading the Spark Notes. My goal is to increase the students' literary cannon in preparation for college and AP courses. They will be best prepared if they read all of the texts assigned.
Daily Topics of Discussion:
Monday, 10/31: Happy Halloween! No School!!
Tuesday, 11/1: Pre-Writing Assignment in Google Classroom; Mrs. Pogue at Staff Development
Wednesday, 11/2: Kernel Essay
Thursday, 11/3: Begin Rough Draft Essay and Grammar Foldable
Friday, 11/4: Feedback on Unit Test and Review Essays
Tutoring This Week
This Week's Tutoring Times for Mrs. Pogue
Monday: No School
Tuesday: Mrs. Pogue Off Campus
Wednesday: 4:15 - 5:00 I have afternoon duty on Wednesdays. This is the last week of the grading period and tutoring is not allowed on Wednesday mornings due to teacher meetings. Students can work outside the classroom, in the library, or with other teachers until my afternoon duty is over or they can come down to the Bus Lane Door #2 to work and ask questions of me while I am on duty.
Thursday: 3:40 - 4:30 pm in my classroom
Friday: 7:45 - 8:25 in my classroom I will be at door #16 at 7:45 to let students in for tutoring.
Important: This is a short grading period. It is only 5 weeks instead of six. Missing work and tests must be taken care of by Friday morning. PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR STUDENT TO TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS QUICKLY.
Parent & Student Information
Parents,
Google Classroom has a new feature called Google Guardian. Parents can be invited as a guardian and receive notification of the assignments and due dates. If you would like to be invited as a guardian, please let me know via email. This is another short grading period. It will be helpful if you monitor your child's parent portal on a regular basis to help them keep up.
IMPORTANT DATES:
November 7: No School for Students
November 19: RCISD Turkey Trot Click Here for more Information
November 21 - November 25: No School Thanksgiving Break
December 15 & December 16: Semester Exams