Lumberton Senior High School

English IV Honors/British Literature

Mr. Brian M. Lindsay

Lumberton Senior High School

Room Fall 2016

Dear Parent/Guardian,

Welcome to you and your child! Language Arts is more than just exposure to grammar and literary selections; it is exposure to entirely new ways of thinking, new cultures, peoples, passions and ideas. I look forward to teaching and learning with your child.

Grades

Formal Writing/Projects/Portfolios: 30%

Tests: 30%

Classwork/Home Work: 20 %

Quizzes/Informal Writing: 20%

Extra Credit - Extra credit is given on a class basis only. If you are failing my class because of late work, you will not be extended extra credit.

Late Work – 10 points off each day for five days and then zero

Make-Up Work – LSHS policy is 5 days for make-up work. IT IS THE STUDENT’S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONTACT ME FOR MAKE-UP ASSIGNMENTS.

Grading Scale

A=90-100B=80-89C=70-79D=60-69F=0-59

NOTE TO SENIORS – I am so proud of you! Congratulations on your upcoming graduation and release into our wide world! Please note though that I do not pass students for graduation simply because they are seniors. I expect the same drive through this class that has gotten you this far in your educational career.

Daily Activities

Students will begin each class period with a “starter” exercise in their marble journals. Students should be on time and immediately begin working on this activity upon arrival to class.

Journals are a way for the student to document their ideas, feelings, and questions about the selections of literature we are reading this semester. This is not graded as stringently for grammatical accuracy as it is for content. I am more interested in the student’s interpretation of the literature and what new outlooks they can provide the class. Sometimes I will ask students to share their ideas if they feel comfortable. Otherwise, I will be the only person reviewing these journals.

Attendance

Students are expected to attend class every day. *****

Office Hours / Tutoring

All tutoring will be held Tuesdays after school. Additional meetings are held by appointment only, please.

Discipline Procedures

– Respect is mandatory.

- NO CELL PHONES, MP3 PLAYERS, NO EAR BUDS

Profanity, vulgarity, and verbal abuse of others will not be tolerated.

Discipline will be enforced in the following manner:

1) Contact a parent. (Parents you will be contacted about any disciplinary actions.)

2) After school detention. Detention for infractions will start at 30 minutes and increase up to 1 hour. Students may either provide their own transportation home or wait for the after-school tutoring bus to leave at 4:15pm.

3) Disciplinary write-up.

Plagiarism

English IV is an opportunity for your child to explore writing as a creative and intellectual outlet, but I will not tolerate plagiarism of any guise to include:

- copying of another’s student’s work in class;

- use of a student’s work from another class period;

- direct quotations from any source passed off as the student’s own.

If plagiarism is discovered, the student will receive a zero for the assignment; EVEN if that assignment is the final exam.

Materials

Each student will need to purchase:

-1 three-ring binder, three dividers, and a marble composition notebook

- Blue or black pens, or pencils

- USB Flashdrive (optional; students may also use the digital locker on Gaggle)

Optional: Tissue, Purell Hand Sanitizer, Expo Markers

Contacting the Teacher

The best way to reach me is by email. Cell phones are not permitted in the building during school days, and calling during class periods is disruptive to me and the students. My email is . I check my email daily.

Best regards, Brian Lindsay

We, as a family, have read and agree to abide by the terms in this syllabus.

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Student Information Form

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TO: Administration at LSHS and Parents of English IV Students

FROM: Brian M. Lindsay, Teacher

RE: Permission to watch listed videos

DATE: August 20, 2015

Videos shown at Lumberton High School are directly related to an objective from the Common Core and Essential Standards for a particular course as designated by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Not all students learn the same way, therefore a strong effort is made to reach students through a variety of learning styles. We have four objectives in English**** in North Carolina: Speaking, Writing, Listening, and Viewing. When videos are shown in my classroom they will be accompanied with a viewing guide. These videos are shown before, during, after, or in lieu of reading selections. Most of these are part of “The Canon.” They are all pieces or components of literature or related to European history and ideas studied in English IV.

VIDEOS may be chosen from the following selections:

Beowolf

The Canterbury Tales

Macbeth

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Great Adventurers: Sir Walter Raleigh and the Orinoco Disaster

Shakespeare in Love

In Search of Shakespeare

Gulliver's Travels

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

I Am Legend

Resident Evil

Alice in Wonderland

The Dead

*Because some of the material in the above videos may contain violence, strong language, or content sexual in nature, you are urged to contact me at (910) 671-6050 to discuss any concerns you may have. Upon receipt of this signed video permission form, I will assume that you do not have any problem with your child viewing some or all of the above films.

Please sign below giving your permission for your child to see portions or entireties of the videos listed above.

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Literature/Literary Period

Anglo-Saxon Period – mythology, early Christian and Pagan influences

Beowulf

Anglo-Saxon Riddles

Middle Ages – code of chivalry, social structure, crusades and religious pilgrimages

Prologue to Canterbury Tales

The Renaissance – changes in religion and philosophy, new social structure

Sonnets

William Shakespeare

Sir Walter Raleigh

The Restoration/Enlightenment Period – emphasis on the individual and democracy

Amelia Lanier, Eve’s Apology

Alexander Pope, essays

Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal

The Romantic Period

William Blake, poems

Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats - Selected poems

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

The Victorian Period

Benjamin Disraeli, excerpt from Sybil: The Two Nations

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, sonnets

Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky”

The Twentieth Century

Thomas Hardy, poems

James Joyce

George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”

Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”