Ezt persze koppintottam... többen kérték, hogy mutassam meg, miket tanítok. Íme.Guidelines for English
Ms. Marianna Szucs
Room 249
What do I need to bring to class every day?
A pen or a pencil
Your English Notebook (a 3-ring binder)
The text being covered (either the book itself or a photocopy of the text)
Your homework
How am I expected to behave in class?
Attend class every day
Be on time every day
No food or drink or chewing gum in class
Turn in all work on time
Participate in all activities
Listen when others are speaking
Speak respectfully to everyone
Always follow instructions
Ask for help when you need it
What happens if I am absent?
You are responsible for what happens in class, whether you are absent or not. You will have mates to call to find out whether there was a quiz or a test, what the homework was, and what content was covered. If materials for homework were handed out in class and you cannot get them, you may turn in your homework one day late, if your absence was excused. If your absence was not excused, you will get a zero for the day.
What if I miss a quiz or a test?
If you miss a quiz or a test, you will get a zero for a grade. You cannot make up a quiz or a test, unless you have discussed your circumstances with me beforehand. You may, however, do an extra-credit assignment for the same amount of points to improve your grade.
What if I miss an assignment deadline?
If you choose not to meet the deadline, you will get a zero for that assignment. If you have an excused absence from school the day an assignment is due, you can turn it in the next day. If you know ahead of time that you will miss the deadline, you must discuss this with me beforehand.
What if I get a lousy grade on an assignment? Can I make it up?
All assignments, if turned in on time, can be revised for a better grade. Revises are due five class days after the original due date. If a paper is due on Friday, Sept. 5, for example, the revise is due on Friday, Sept. 12. Of course, you may turn it in earlier. If you miss this deadline, you will not get a revised grade.
What should my written work look like?
· If handwritten, use cursive
· Be legible (if I cannot read it, you don’t get a credit for it)
· Have your name and the due date at the top of the page
· Be neat (no crumpled, soggy papers accepted; no ragged edges accepted; no scrawling or doodling in the margins accepted)
· Be stapled, if more than one page
· Be typed, if asked
· If typed, use standard MLA format
What happens to my work after I complete it?
You turn it in
It comes back to you with a grade
You put it into your portfolio, which stays in the classroom
És az olvasmánylisták:Period 5/6 ORANGE Academic English III
Ms. Marianna SzucsDear Students and Parents/Guardians:
I’d like to welcome you back to school and introduce you to my materials for Academic English III. Please refer to Guidelines for English as well for specific information about my expectations.
The course will present American literature. You can expect homework every night: either reading, reflecting, and writing about literature; composing essays or creative pieces; revising written work; completing grammar exercises; or studying vocabulary.
Students will be graded on classwork and homework (10%), reading quizzes (30%), vocabulary/grammar tests (20%), and papers or projects (40%). According to English department policy, a grade for a formal written composition (one which adheres to MLA documentation form) is lowered to a 50 the first day it is late. Daily homework assignments reviewed in class (vocabulary, grammar exercises, etc.) cannot be turned in late.
Unfortunately not every title can be considered during the course of the school year. The class readings for this course will be selected from the following list.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Arthur Miller: The Crucible
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The American Scholar
Henry David Thoreau: Walden
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain
Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind
Herman Melville: Moby-Dick
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Evangeline
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Willa Cather: My Antonia
Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Nelle Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
Joseph Heller: Catch-22
John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five
Arthur Miller: The Death of a Salesman
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
Eugene O’Neill: Desire Under the Elms
William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying
Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried
John Updike: The Witches of Eastwick
Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
Tom Stoppard – Mark Norman: Shakespeare In Love
Selected (American) short stories and poems
William Shakespeare: Macbeth
Many more titles are available for independent reading in order to improve grades.
Please review the selections, sign below to indicate that you have read the above information, fold it, and return it to school during the second week of classes.
If you have any questions or concerns, please call or e-mail me at BHS. You are also welcome to meet me in person on September 24 (Open House).
I have reviewed the course goals and readings.
Student Signature:
Parent/Guardian Signature:
Parent/Guardian E-mail Address:
Period 1/2 and 3/4 BLACK Honors English III
Ms. Marianna SzucsDear Students and Parents/Guardians:
I’d like to welcome you back to school and introduce you to my materials for Honors English III. Please refer to Guidelines for English as well for specific information about my expectations.
The course will present American literature. You can expect homework every night: either reading, reflecting, and writing about literature; composing essays or creative pieces; revising written work; completing grammar exercises; or studying vocabulary.
Students will be graded on classwork and homework (10%), reading quizzes (30%), vocabulary/grammar tests (20%), and papers or projects (40%). According to English department policy, a grade for a formal written composition (one which adheres to MLA documentation form) is lowered to a 50 the first day it is late. Daily homework assignments reviewed in class (vocabulary, grammar exercises, etc.) cannot be turned in late.
Unfortunately not every title can be considered during the course of the school year. The class readings for this course will be selected from the following list.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Arthur Miller: The Crucible
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The American Scholar
Henry David Thoreau: Walden
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain
Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind
Herman Melville: Moby-Dick
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Evangeline
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Willa Cather: My Antonia
Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Nelle Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
Joseph Heller: Catch-22
John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five
Arthur Miller: The Death of a Salesman
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
Eugene O’Neill: Desire Under the Elms
William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying
Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried
John Updike: The Witches of Eastwick
Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
Tom Stoppard – Mark Norman: Shakespeare In Love
Selected (American) short stories and poems
William Shakespeare: Macbeth
Many more titles are available for independent reading in order to improve grades.
Please review the selections, sign below to indicate that you have read the above information, fold it, and return it to school during the second week of classes.
If you have any questions or concerns, please call or e-mail me at BHS. You are also welcome to meet me in person on September 24 (Open House).
I have reviewed the course goals and readings.
Student Signature:
Parent/Guardian Signature:
Parent/Guardian E-mail Address:
Period 7/8 BLACK Prep English IV
Ms. Marianna Szucs
Dear Students and Parents/Guardians:
I’d like to welcome you back to school and introduce you to my materials for Prep English IV. Please refer to Guidelines for English as well for specific information about my expectations.
The course will present British literature. The class readings for this course will be selected from the following list.
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
John Milton: Paradise Lost
Samuel Pepys: The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe; Moll Flanders
Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
George Gordon Byron: Don Juan
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
George Eliot: Silas Marner
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Treasure Island
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist; David Copperfield; A Christmas Carol; Great Expectations
Lewis Carroll: Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
John Galsworthy: Forsyte Saga
D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterly’s Lover
James Joyce: The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
George Orwell: 1984; Animal Farm
Agatha Christie: The Mousetrap
George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
Graham Greene: The Quiet American; The End of the Affair
Selected (British) short stories and poems
Many more titles are available for independent reading in order to improve grades.
Please review the selections, sign below to indicate that you have read the above information, fold it, and return it to school during the second week of classes.
If you have any questions or concerns, please call or e-mail me at BHS. You are also welcome to meet me in person on September 24 (Open House).
I have reviewed the course goals and readings.
Student Signature:
Parent/Guardian Signature:
Parent/Guardian E-mail Address: