Weekly News: 29 May 2011
For CiS seniors:
Final posting for CiS Lit includes only Edison grade finals. See your U of M account for credited University grades, and pick up your portfolio from Edison, room 211.
No scheduled classes this week, only fianla portfolio and semester paper presentations according to schedule.
Introduction to Literature: Novel, Drama and Poetry is a freshman level college course. There are college level expectations: Work must get done. Thinking must be happening and detectable in the notebooks, participation in the classroom, and of course in the writing. Major works: Linda Hogan, Solar Storms; Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude; Toni Morrison, Beloved; Arundhati Roy, A God of Small Things, and August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson.
For English 11th students:
Farewell poems this week.......... Finals, 7 and 8 June.
THE WORK MUST BE DONE.
Students and families need to realize that avoiding the opportunity to gain a high school diploma through lack of credits will mean that these high school years are the best years these students will ever have. It will not be better after they are out of school. Everyone must put out real effort. They don't need to like it, but they need to be able to do it. I do not dumb down courses for the lazy; I teach the willing learners well.
No work; no grade; no excuses.
An important lesson and an expectation in my classes is that students will take responsibility for their learning. If there are missing assignments or putting off doing assignments, the students need to correct the problem; it directly impacts their grade now, and will make all the difference in their lives. Don't let work slide. Remember that there is no late work accepted. Missed work and deadlines require students to complete or turn in work on the day they return to school. Students should always check in and ask when they return.
Questions? email jritterson@mpls.k12.mn.us. That's the best way to get a hold of me. Sheets just like the ones you regularly see in the Grades and Attendance page here are posted in the classroom the first day of every week. Students may check the assignments I have scores for, and what I do not. They either make up the missing assignments or bring them to me if its absence is due to a book keeping error. Past assignments and other handouts are in file boxes by the window in the room.
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modified on 29 May 2011