Posting Grades

Hello All.

I'm grading everything as quickly as I can.  When I finish grading a class, I'll post it here so you can know your grade is final in Synergy.

So far I've finished grading:
1st Period except for one student and you know who you are.
3rd Period
4th Period
6th Period

7th Period won't be finalized until next week.  I need to step away from the pages to grade them fairly.

Have a fabulous break!

Honor's World Literature 2nd Semester Parallel Reading

Since some parents have asked about what books to obtain for next semester in advance, here is our game plan in our Honors World Lit classes.  

As always, with books we ask you to obtain, you can buy them physically, online, on your phone, new, used, rent them from the library, borrow them, anything, so long as you have access to it.

Unit 4: The Search for Meaning:  

In class we will be reading selections from Dante’s Inferno and Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” while the students obtain and read Wiesel’s Night outside of class.

Unit 5:  Gender and Society

Students will start to read Ibsen’s Doll House in the textbook, then finish reading at home (you may obtain your own copy or read from the online textbook), while we read the No Fear Shakespeare version of Taming of the Shrew.  Students will have a research project during this unit.

Unit 6:  Around the World through Poetry.  

Various selections from the textbook.  There will be a group project.

As a reminder in this holiday season, donations are not only accepted but welcomed.  If you would like to donate anything to the class, we are in desperate need of hand sanitizer and tissues.  We would also love colored printer paper, markers, colored pencils, number 2 pencils, and pens.  

Happy Holidays!

Final Exams NEXT WEEK!

Hello All!

Yearbook
All pages are due by Friday.  Year Ones, that means that your page is due before Friday as you need your Year Two to look over it and submit it by Friday.  This is a team effort, guys.  I cannot grade your page until it is ready for submission.

Honors 10th World Lit
All we have left is your Final Exam and your Poisonwood Bible Test tomorrow.  The Study Guide is on the Resources Page.

10th World Lit
Today we started the Grade Recovery assignments.  If you have any questions about these 4 grades that your child can recover, please ask.  These assignments are due at the beginning of class on Friday, or in class on Thursday (in the case of the test or the speech), no exceptions, no late work.  Your child MUST label the assignment with which Summative grade they are replacing and may ONLY recover 1 grade per standards category.  This is the opportunity for many students to move their grade up at least one letter grade, but they have to do their best on these assignments.

Your Study Guides are on the Resources Page.

We are so close.  Stay through until the end!

9 more Days of School

Good Morning All!

I'm working furiously to grade everything I can this week so that you'll know your grades going into Mid-term Exams.  Please bare with me as I am grading as fast as I can!

Make sure you are on top of your final few assignments!

Have a great week!

On Level 10th World Lit -- Semester Extension and the end of the Year

Hello All,

As we approach the end of the semester, the topic of Semester Extension comes up.  This is a program that we have at Kell for students who end the semester with a 64-69 so that they can do 4 days of extension and pull their grade up to a 70.

I handed out the forms today to ALL students, and every student who turns in the form (whether they need it or not) will earn extra credit.  I would rather have and not need these forms than need and not have.

If your student qualifies for Semester Extension, the session will be on 1/13-1/16 from 7:10-8:10.  Students will need to attend all sessions to earn credit for the course.  

HOWEVER, in an effort for students to NOT NEED Semester Extension, we will be giving them the opportunity to make up 1 Summative Grade in EACH of the 4 Standards Categories.  Click here for the assignment:  2014-2015 Fall Semester Extension Opportunity

We will be handing out this assignment in class on Friday, but I wanted to go ahead and give you the head's up. Due to the EOC schedule next week, we will not have 6th period on Monday or Tuesday.  Students will be expected to work on what they can outside of class to make sure they can recover as many grades as possible.
Our hope is that all students take advantage of this opportunity and pass the class on their own with a great grade that they've earned.

Students will need to communicate which of their summative grades they want to recover (I recommend the lowest one per summative category, but I need a list stating which ones).  This is so I can quickly and effectively get those grades into the grade book before finals actually start--I want you to know what we're looking at going into the final.

FINALLY, we have only 3 big grades left this semester.  

1.  The Socratic Seminar tomorrow and Friday.  

2.  The Oedipus Unit Test on Wednesday

3.  The Unit 4 Major Vocabulary Quiz on Wednesday (due to crazy schedule and not having class Monday and Tuesday).

Please focus on earning a great grade on these last 3 things so that you can use the Credit Recovery Oportunity to bring up your lowest grade that's already past.

You can do it!  We only have 8 more school days til finals.  Keep your focus strong through until the end and you can earn a great grade in this class.

So close to the end

Hello all,

We have 8 more days of class until Final Exams.

Honors 10th World Lit and 10th World Lit
Make sure you check the calendar to be on top of all of the things we are doing this week and next.  Your study guides and socratic seminar questions are on the blog.  Check your Resources pages respectively.

Yearbook
Crunch time!  We are in the final days of working on the pages for this semester.  Every student has the correct pages assigned to them in eDesign.  The pages must be SUBMITTED before finals week to earn a passing grade.  You can do this!  Ask if you need help!