ENGLISH COORDINATION
AMERICAN LITERATURE
RULES FOR THE 2014-2015 COURSE
5TH grade
Miss Grace Martínez Celis G.
1. Students must act all times as stipulated in school rules and during class time as stipulated in
this present set of rules.
2. Students need at least 80% of attendance to have a right to the test.
3. The classroom must be completely clean before the class begins and after it ends.
4. Drinking water is permitted during class time; students do not need to ask for permission to
do it.
5. Students are responsible of knowing all the information given inside the classroom, even if
they are not present at the moment; this includes homework and exam dates.
6. To participate in the classroom, students will raise their hand, wait for the teacher to point
them, and speak loudly, clearly and respectfully.
HOMEWORK AND CLASSWORK
1. Homework will be due on a specific date and time, and it will not be received neither earlier
not later, except when an official justification is provided.
2. Missing homework will be averaged with a grade equal to zero (0).
3. Plagiarism is strictly forbidden and it will be punished with a zero in the final grade and will be
informed to the school's director.
4. There will be 6 monthly marking periods. Students must have a passing grade in the exam to
consider their 20% of homework, their 10% of participation and 10% of classwork; otherwise,
their failing exams grade will be their monthly grade.
5. In order to be able to exempt the final exam, students must keep an 8.6 average, a minimum
grade of 8 in all marking periods and no more than one 7 in conduct.
English Coordination
RULES
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Students should refrain from:
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using their cell phones
other electronic gadgets
class time
2
or any
during
REGULATIONS
Students should make an effort to:
1
maintain their classroom clean at
all times
eating food or chewing gum
2
be in the classroom before the
teacher arrives
3
using swear words or insulting
their peers or teachers in any way,
shape or form
3
bring the required material to
every single class
4
charging their phones or other
electronic gadgets anywhere in the
classroom
4
remain in their original places
5
having any kind of material on the
desk or whereabouts, without the
teacher’s consent
5
to bring their justifications as soon
as possible in order to be able to
register
their
attendance
appropriately
6
studying another subject during
the class time
6
behave in an orderly manner at all
times
7
giving nicknames to either peers or
teachers
7
keep their eyes on their own tests
and to avoid fidgeting
8
leaving the classroom for different
activities without the authorization
from the person responsible for
their absence
8
keep their study guides and
phones out of sight during the
exam periods
EVALUATION
The monthly grade will be built according to the following criteria:
60%
10%
10%
20%
Exam
Homeworks
Participation
Reading Journal
CONTENTS
Unit I. Into de 21st Century
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Adam: Kurt Vunnegut
Ambush: Tim O´Brien
The Beat Generation
Supermarket in California: Allen
Ginsberg
The Black Arts Movement
“An Agony. As Now” : Amiri Baraka
Raymond Carver: Cathedral
Mother Tongue: Amy Tan
The Man in the Moon: Billy Collins
Forgetfulness: Billy Collins
Lady Lazarus: Sylvia Plath
I am Vertical: Sylvia Plath
Starry Night: Anne Sexton
Consorting with Angels: Anne Sexton
Unit II. Modern Literature
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The Crucible: Arthur Miller
“I, Too”: Langston Hughes
“Harlem”: Langston Hughes
The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Another Country: Ernest
Hemingway
The Duty of Writers: E.B. White
A Rose for Emily: William Faulkner
How it Feels to Be Colored Me: Zora
Neale Hurston
Chicago: Carl Sandburg
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Imagism
Unit III. Realism
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April Showers: Edith Warton
The Story of An Hour: Kate Chopin
The Yellow Wall Paper: Charlotte
Perkins
Unit IV. Regionalism and Naturalism
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A Wagner Matinee: Willa Cather
Unit V. Romanticism
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The Devil and Tom Walker:
Washington Irving
Self Reliance: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Raven: Edgar Allan Poe
The Minister´s Black Veil: Nathaniel
Hawthorne
I Hear America Singing: Walt
Whitman
My life closed twice before its close:
Emily Dickinson
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Letter to Mr. T.W. Higgins:
Emily Dickinson
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Text Book: Holt McDougal eBook
Literature 11 grade
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Novels: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Dear Students:
It is my wish that you may encounter a treasure island. As you sail through the sea of
words, you will surely find an immense range of possibilities that will lead you to it.
Miss Grace