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Welcome to Mrs. Gallman's English I, English I Honors, and Remedial English.  Throughout this semester, you will find lots of information about what we are working on by looking at OnCourse (My Website). 

The following information will help you during this semester:

 

 

Google Classroom: We will be using Google Classroom every day.  In order to log into Google Classroom, students will need to go to classroom.google.com.  Students will use their google email address which will look something like this for Sally Smith:  [email protected].  

 

O365:  All parents will email me through O365 ([email protected]).   Students can either email me through O365 OR they can email me through their google mail ([email protected]). In order to log into O365, students will need to go to https://login.microsoftonline.com.  Students will use their O365 email address which will look something like this for Sally Smith:  [email protected].  


SpringBoard Curriculum:  We will be working with the SpringBoard Curriculum this year.  This is a rigorous curriculum that uses a lot of activities to enable students to use higher-order thinking in their studies.  Each unit has multiple assessments (in the form of projects, written assignments and multiple-choice tests), and in order to perform well on the assessments in each unit, it is important to perform in each and every activity found throughout the book.  These activities build upon one another (like a scaffold) and eventually lead to the student's ability to perform well on the various assessments.  Because this curriculum's activities build upon one another, it is important that students make every effort to minimize absences.

 

Grading: Grades will be weighted in English as follows:

 

EOC or End of Semester Assessment                            15%

Major Assessments (Tests and Essays)                        40%

Assessed for Accuracy (Quizzes, projects)                  35%

Participation/Completion                                                 10%