Mr. John Dreimiller
Voice Mail: 585-6661, ext.162
Email: jdreimiller@ticonderogak12.org
jdreimiller@nycap.rr.comEnglish 11
Advanced Placement English Language and CompositionEnglish 11
Course Description and Expectations:
English 11 seeks to equip juniors with the language tools necessary to thrive in a complex, changing world. Its curriculum aligns with the New York State Comprehensive English Regents, a graduation requirement. The course aims to help students read perceptively, think critically, write analytically, and speak effectively. Participants learn questioning techniques that will help them negotiate complex issues and understand literary texts, primarily American. Students are encouraged to read independently for pleasure and enrichment in order to develop taste and judgment and strengthen skills.
Materials Needed:
3-ring binder and pocket folder. Helpful: dictionary and thesaurus.
Homework Policy:
Homework is assigned almost every night. Sometimes it is reading, sometimes reading with questions, sometimes research, sometimes essay. Homework is collected and checked regularly. It counts. Quality, on-time work accumulates more credit than late work.
Grading Policy:
Each marking period is worth 200 points. Add quizzes and test grades to those of class work and homework: then divide total by 2. This is term average: (Q+T+C+H)/2=___%. Assignments are distributed and weighted before term begins.
Tenth Period
Students with overdue class work or tests should expect to stay tenth period until work is completed.
Suggestion for Parents:
Please ask your students regularly what they are reading for class and what they are reading independently.
Quotation: “The object of teaching children is to enable them to get along without a teacher.”
Advanced Placement English Language and Composition
Course Description and Expectations:
Advanced Placement, a national education program, is based on the idea that some young people can complete college-level studies in secondary school. Reading primarily nonfiction, students learn to analyze and utilize rhetorical strategies. Readings focus on memoir, speech, essay, argument, persuasion, and poetry but also include fiction and drama, mostly American. Students are expected to take the A. P. test in May, which costs $87.00. The course also seeks to prepare each junior for the New York State Comprehensive Regents Exam, a graduation requirement. A. P. English Language aims to help the student read perceptively, think critically, write analytically, and speak effectively. Each participant learns questioning techniques that will help him/her negotiate complex issues and understand literary texts.
Materials Needed:
3-ring binder and pocket folder. Helpful: dictionary and thesaurus, and perhaps a subscription to The New Yorker, Harper’s, or The Atlantic.
Homework Policy:
Homework is assigned almost every night. Sometimes it is reading, sometimes reading with questions, sometimes research, sometimes essay. Homework is collected and checked regularly. It counts. Quality, on-time work accumulates more credit than late work.
Grading Policy:
Each marking period is worth 200 points. Add quizzes and test grades to those of class work and homework: then divide total by 2. This is the term average formula: (Q+T+CW+HW)/2=___%. Assignments are distributed and weighted before term begins.
Quotation: “Pupils who are never required to do what they cannot yet do, never learn what they can do.”