English 281 Honors English 10

AP English Literature & Composition

You may contact me at palbee@scsk12.org

Class Rules

Be prepared to participate actively: bring books, supplies, and homework

Be prompt, seated, and ready to work when tardy bell rings

Be honest by submitting your own work, ideas, and best effort

Be courteous of others' person property, time, and ideas

By diligent in obeying school rules

Supplies

Three-ring binder with loose leaf paper and dividers

blue or black pens (not erasable)

two highlighters (different colors)

agenda book

Make-Up Tests

Wednesday, 6:25 a.m. or 2:10 p.m. or by prior arrangement

You have one week to make up a missed test with an excused absence. One day for each day absent is allowed for make up.

Consideration will always be given for extenuating circumstances.

Tutoring

Wednesday at 6:20 a.m. or 2:10 p.m. or by prior arrangement

Please refer to your printed copy of Mrs. Albee's Policies and Procedures for more detailed information

Writing

All writing assignments should be submitted typed in MLA format with all drafts and prewrites in order to show

your process and progress with the paper. If you have printer problems, email a copy of the paper to me.

You are still responsible for printing a copy when you arrive at school and turning it in to me.

Summer Reading--2008 AP Literature and Composition

All assignments are due the first day of class in August.

All students will read Crime & Punishment by Dostoevsky. Choose one of the following and read: Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut; The Things They Carried, O'Brien, or The Namesake, Lahiri. Complete MWDS for both novels. Finally, write poetry responses for 10 poems from The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, McClatchy, ed.

Full requirements and forms are on the school web-site. The password is aphonors.

Summer Reading -- 2008 Honors English 10

All assignments are due the first day of class in August.

All students will read The Chosen by Chaim Potok and Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Vocabulary words for each book should be defined. In addition, selected chapters from How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster should be read and annotated.

Full requirements and explanations are on the school web-site. The password is aphonors.

Syllabus for Outside Reading

Fall Semester

Spring Semester