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Welcome! & Sign in
•Use the laptop…
•Or on your phone, go to msrolfe.com and click on the link to the google form.
• If you prefer paper, there is a paper sign in on the clip board as well.
• Feel free to grab my business card as well. It has all of my contact information.
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My contact information
• Please feel free to take a business card. [email protected] or [email protected] or you can call my office phone at 903-884-6835. It’s a google voice number and will ring all of my phones. (Please don’t call after 9PM if you can help it.)
• The easiest way to reach me is through email. I promise I will answer quickly. The next best way is my google voice.
• My conference period is 2nd on A Days and 5th on B Days
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Best place to get information…
My website! • http://
msrolfe.com
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A little about me!• I started my teaching career at Del Valle High
School ten years ago. This is my 3rd year at Bowie.
• Before becoming a teacher, I was a freelance journalist and worked in marketing for ten years in my hometown of Boston, MA.
• I have an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Bennington College and a B.S. in Journalism from Boston University.
• During my career as a journalist, my work appeared in The Boston Phoenix magazine Stuff@Night, XLR8R, and Boston’s Weekly Dig. She also contributed articles on a volunteer basis to What’s Up Magazine and Spare Change, which are two magazines that benefit the homeless.
• My poetry has appeared in Saul Williams’ poetry anthology Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, as well as the anthologies Forgetting Home and Mother is a Verb. I’ve also published poems in literary magazines like 5AM Magazine, Touchstone Literary Journal and on the online journal LaFovea.
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Tutoring times• Any time before school, after school or at lunch by
appointment.
• I am here most days until around 5:00 PM at least. If your student lets me know, I can be here. Monday through Wednesday is best. On Thursdays I sponsor Nintendo Club, so I can tutor, but it might be loud.
• I am flexible. Just ask/ sign up!
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What we’re studying this year…• Literature from around the world!
– Reading skills will include inferences and incorporating textual evidence to back up an assertion.
– We’re going to read A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (3rd six weeks) as a class and students can choose one of the following for our Literature Circles next six weeks- A Lesson Before Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Night and Funny in Farsi.
• The major essays we will focus on first is the persuasive (STAAR)
• Later in the year, we will focus on literary analysis and research.
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Grading break down• Homework and Daily assignments are worth 15%
• Quizzes and mini-projects are worth 20%.
• Unit Tests are worth 30%
• Essays and major projects are worth 35%
• Students who fail tests can re-take them within one week for up to a 70%.
Late work (This is for all 10th grade ELA Classes)
• All assignments (homework, mini-projects, major projects, essays, presentations, etc.):
• These are due at the beginning of the period on the due date. Late assignments will be penalized 10 points for every calendar day late until it reaches a 50%. After five days, the assignment will receive a zero.
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Grading for creative writing
Grading Procedures:
• Pre-Writing & Classroom Activities: 15%
• Rough Drafts & Informal writing assignments: 20%
• First Drafts & Formal Writing Assignment: 30%
• Writer’s Notebook & Portfolio Pieces: 35%
• Creative writing is a weighted elective. Therefore if students do well, it can help their GPA. For this reason, I expect students to take the work seriously and participate in class.
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Bowie Book Fair!
• The ELA department is hosting book fair of sorts this year. They are in the library tonight. If you use the voucher, the ELA department will get a part of the proceeds.
• For my class, I suggest students purchase a copy of their literature circle book and A Long Way Gone so that they can mark it up and have it outside of class if they need it.
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ANY QUESTIONS?
Thank you!