English 12 Syllabus

Ms. Jones Email:

mateshaj@sampson.k12.nc.us
Room: English Wing 111
Welcome to English 6. This course is designed to provide a foundational study of
literary genres (novels, short stories, poetry, drama, literary non-fiction). It will include
influential U.S. documents and other informational texts. Important skills such as:
reading, writing, listening, speaking are how we figure out what we think, how we
express our opinions, and how we ultimately impact others with our ideas.

Materials Needed

Students must come prepared to class every day with pencils and paper. Students will
need:
1. 1. One 1 3-ring binder
2. 5 dividers (optional)
3. Loose-leaf paper (college ruled)
4. Number 2 Pencils
5. A personal/library novel
6. 2 Highlighters
7. Index cards
8. Colored Pencils

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Course Objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to:

Read and comprehend literature proficiently, including stories, dramas, and poems in the
grade 12 text complexity band, with scaffolding as needed.
Read and comprehend literary nonfiction proficiently in the grade 6 text complexity
band, with scaffolding as needed.
Write routinely for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases,
sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness
level.
Demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word
or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

Students must bring a personal book with them every day to class.

Classroom Rules and Expectations

Our classroom is a safe place and everyone will be treated with

respect.
Disruption of the classroom learning environment will not be tolerated.
All students will accept individual responsibility for their actions.
All rules and policies in the student handbook apply in this room.
 Students must:
Be Prompt: ON TIME AND NON-DISRUPTIVE
Be Prepared: BRING ALL BOOKS, ASSIGNMENTS, etc.
Be Polite: RESPECT YOURSELF, THE TEACHER, AND OTHERS
Be Productive: STAY ON TASK, FOLLOW DIRECTIONS AND STAY ORGANIZED

Consequences
All of the rules must be followed in order to provide a safe and effective learning
environment.
1st: Verbal warning
2nd: Office referral to Assistant principal (ISS) and Call Home
**Consequences will be based upon student offense and can vary, i.e. lunch detention, ISS, etc.**

Classroom Procedures

Warm Up: At the beginning of every class, students must be in class and ready to work
when the bell rings. Every day students will complete an assignment on the board called
a Warm Up. The Warm up can be in the form of a journal entry, questions, etc. This
assignment will be completed silently. If students finish early they may begin reading or
work on homework.

Bathroom Policy: All students will be provided with 6 hall passes to use at their
discretion for each nine weeks. Being that you, the student, are receiving a generous
amount of hall passes each nine weeks, once you have used all of your passes, you will
no longer be given permission to leave the class. If you use all of your passes, but must
go to the restroom, it is to your discretion to leave the class. However, if you do, you are
subject to being written up for skipping class and/or serving lunch detention. Therefore,
it is imperative that you use your hall passes wisely. BEFORE LEAVING THE ROOM:
Students must hand the pass to me and sign out. If I am teaching, please wait until an
appropriate time to ask. Do not interrupt me while I am teaching unless it is an
emergency. If you have any hall passes left at the end of the nine weeks, you may
redeem them for extra credit.

Assignment Policy: Homework assignments may be given on any day. New vocabulary
words will be assigned every Monday unless stated otherwise. If you are absent, make
sure you copy down the words from a peer or check Edmodo. Students must complete
homework assignments and be prepared to hand them in when asked. Any assignments
not turned in when the instructor collects the work will be considered late and will have a
late assignment penalty (points deducted depend on the type of assignment and how
many class days the assignment is late). Late penalty points is to the discretion of the
instructor.

Attendance/Tardy Policy: Union Middle Schools attendance and tardy policy will be
followed in this classroom. Please review the Student Handbook on the schools
webpage.

Make-up Policy
 If you are absent, you are responsible for obtaining missed assignments
and notes
You will have two days upon your return to make-up missing assignments.
No exceptions.
1 Handouts you have missed will usually be on Edmodo or the back table.
Please check those places first before asking me for the handouts.
You will have until the end of each nine weeks to make-up tests. You must
have a valid reason AND a note from a doctor or parent to be allowed to make up
tests. It is your responsibility to make up your test. After school tutoring may be
available upon request.

Grading Policy and Guidelines for Success

Union Middle School Grading Guidelines

Nine Week Grades are determined by:
Tests: 40%
Quizzes: 25% (signed progress reports are extra credit)
Classwork: 25%
Homework: 10%

Sampson County Schools Grade Scale: A = 90-100, B = 80-89, C = 70-79, D = 69-60, F =

below 60

Communication is the best method to insure that your student is successful. Please feel
free to email me at mateshaj@sampson.k12.nc.us. Email communication is quickest and
most effective because of time constraints. Please provide an e-mail address/phone
number below. If your student has a specific need, please let me know.

A progress report will be supplied twice each 9 weeks for parents signature.
Please ask your child for a progress report after the fourth week of each nine weeks.
This will keep students and parents/guardians aware of their grade and any missing
work. Also, Edmodo will be used as a resource for parents and students to understand
what is going on in the classroom. Edmond can be used for information on projects,
essays, class notes and tests.

The supplied information is important to the success of your student. I look forward to
working with you this semester. After reading the attached syllabus, please sign and
complete the following information to verify you have received a copy of the syllabus and
are aware that the electronic copy of the syllabus is on Edmodo.

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