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Note: I am out of town & away from email 6/3/08-6/16/08. Call me on my cell if you want to know what your grade is (they are done -- except Kirsten's -- see note at right), or if you have questions. I will give Final Folders back after June 17th. Remember -- your parents will save $100 on next year's fees if you get all your forms mailed by 6/15/08. * * * * * * * * To see all of your VOCABULARY to date, go to: American Lit. Vocabulary page Click on the icon at right to access Editors' Links and directions for email editing: GRADING: Participation = 30% (purely subjective, based on my perceptions of your initiative, interest, self-motivation, & tenacity) Assignments (two parts of grade) 1st Semester EFFORT = 20%; CONTENT = 10% 2nd Semester EFFORT = 10%; CONTENT = 20% Vocab/Multiple Choice tests = 15% AP Portfolio essay grades = 15% Exams = 10% An explanation of the assignment grades at right. The grade you see is an average of the CONTENT grades you have received over an average of the EFFORT grades you have received. During the first semester, the effort grade will be weighted more; during the Spring semester, I will look at the content average as the more signifiicant part of your grade. pieces written by English III students in 2007-2008 pieces written by English III students in 2005-2006 pieces written by English III students in 2003-2004 pieces written by English III students in 2001-2002

Semester 2 William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying characters Flannery O'Conner: A Good Man is Hard to Find Everything That Rises Must Converge Good Country People Greenleaf Ernest Hemingway notes:                 A Clean Well-Lighted Place &                 The ... Life of Francis Macomber Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises Edith Wharton/F. Scott Fitzgerald:                 Roman Fever & A New Leaf F. Scott Fitzgerald notes                 A New Leaf & The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby Willa Cather notes                 My Antonia                 Paul's Case Cather/Steinbeck:                 My Antonia & The Red Pony Steinbeck: Of Mice & Men Semester 1 Henry James & The Turn of the Screw David Brooks' One Nation, Slightly Divisible Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener Analysis of symbols in The Fig Tree SL Chapter notes general SL notes & The Christian Paradox Hawthorne notes & stories Poe stories Poe notes & poems Philosophical essay notes * * * * * * * * 2nd Semester Unfinished Pieces Kirsten                 Assignments: 100 [E] / 95 [C]                 AP essays = 70%                 SAT essays = 86%                 Vocab/Mult. Choice practice = 92%                 Final exam grade = 92% FINISHED! Kelsey                 Assignments: 93 [E] / 92 [C]                 AP essays = 53%                 SAT essays = 79%                 Vocab/Mult. Choice practice = 63%                 Final exam grade = 88% FINISHED! Bailey                 Assignments: 90 [E] / 92 [C]                 AP essays = 48%                 SAT essays = 68%                 Vocab/Mult. Choice practice = 68%                 Final exam grade = 89% FINISHED! Kathryn                 Assignments: 89 [E] / 93 [C]                 AP essays = 73 %                 SAT essays = 93%                 Vocab/Mult. Choice practice = 74%                 Final exam grade = 89% FINISHED! Jamie                 Assignments: 95 [E] / 93 [C]                 AP essays = 50%                 SAT essays = 75%                 Vocab/Mult. Choice practice = 68%                 Final exam grade = 92% FINISHED! Katie                 Assignments: 94 [E] / 93 [C]                 AP essays = 60%                 SAT essays = 78%                 Vocab/Mult. Choice practice = 67%                 Final exam grade = 95% FINISHED!

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