English 10
Honors PreAP
Jennifer Showalter room 019
Roger Kugler room 031
Andy Lang Room 221
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Jennifer Showalter
About me:
English 10 (PreAP, Reg, SVL), Journalism
JC Journal Newspaper Advisor
Knitting Club Advisor
16th year teaching at LC, Spokane native
BA English, Minor Journalism WSU.
MA English Literature EWU.
Married to Kevin Showalter, of the Cheney
Showalters 
 8 ½-year-old girl, Janie Kayleen
 4-year-old boy, Henry Thomas
Useful Information:
jennifersh@spokaneschools.org
Messages—email/text is fastest
615-745-9970 (Google Voice #).
Assignment calendar: www.lctigers.com >
staff sites
Available hours: 6:30 am to 1:35 pm (I
leave after 5th period to pick up my kids).
My grades and the assignment calendar (on
my LC website) are updated on a weekly
basis
Worried about grades? The only scores for
concern now are zeros or incompletes.
PreAP 10 Objectives—AP, CC
WRITING
 analyzing and composing in various MODES
READING
Close reading
 Author’s Purpose
 Literary Features
 Analyzing Rhetoric
Annotating to analyze/evaluate
RESEARCH
Reinforcing the Modern Language Association
(MLA) rules for writing
PreAP 10 Objectives Continued
VOCABULARY
In context
Greek/Latin root
Lists 1-7 (review from last year)
Lists 8-17 (out of 20)
GRAMMAR (every Thursday)
ASSESSMENT PREPARATION:
AP language (grade 11) and AP literature
(grade 12) tests
The SAT and Smarter Balance Common
Core WA State Assessment (junior year)
Texts used/covered in Class FALL
Summer Reading: A Raisin in the Sun by
Lorraine Hansberry
 All year:
 Springboard curriculum/assessments
 The MLA Handbook—7th ed.
Current: Independent Choice Novel
Nov/Dec.: Antigone by Sophocles
Dec/Jan: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Texts used/covered in Class: SPRING
February/March: Julius Caesar by William
Shakespeare
April/May: Choice Non-Fiction text
June (Possible): 101 Great American
Poems
The PSAT
Wednesday, October 14, 8 am @ LCHS
 Cost—FREE!
 Bring: #2 pencils, calculator, snacks
 Required for juniors and sophomores (freshmen and
seniors will be completing career and college readiness
activities)
 The room assignment poster, for all students, will be
posted in the main hall by the student office a few days
before the test.
 Great practice for the SAT
 Students receive practice books in Seminar
 Will take the PSAT again Junior year to qualify for
National Merit Scholarships
Weighted Grading System
30%
Formative Assessments
Grading Category
Percent
READING
40%
Grammar
Practices, Quizzes, Drafts
70%
Summative Assessments
Tests, Final drafts
(10%)
(3%)
(7%)
(10%)
(3%)
(7%)
(20%)
(6%)
(14%)
(30%)
(9%)
(21%)
Brief or paragraph writing
(20%)
(6%)
(14%)
Journal, Reflective, Creative writing
(10%)
(3%)
(7%)
Parts of
Speech, Parts
of a Sentence,
Phrases,
Clauses
Vocabulary
Greek and Latin
Roots
Content
Vocabulary
Comprehension, Annotation,
Analysis, Evaluation, etc.
WRITING
60%
AP/SAT/HSPE/
District Unit
Essays
Assessments
Weighted Grading System:
 Honors accountability, responsibility, and diligence by giving
credit for practicing class skills through formative assessments
 Missing or being unsuccessful on some assignments will not
wreck a student’s overall grade.
 Reward and account for skill acquisition by counting final
assessments as the majority of the student’s grade.
 No late work policy for daily work: Formative assessments
should be completed in order to best practice and master skills.
However, no late work will be accepted for formative (practice)
assessments.
 Redos for summative work: Students will have multiple
opportunities to demonstrate, retest, or rewrite as necessary to
prove that they have acquired and mastered skills over the
course of the year.
Looking
Forward to
a great year
together!
Please
contact me
if you have
any
questions.