Hawthorne High School
TELD
•Instructor: Mr. Nick Candelas
•Class Meeting Days: Everyday
•Room: Bungalow 8-E
•Email: mrnickcandelas@gmail.com
•Phone: 310-263-4400 Ext:
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Welcome
This is a new semester and a new beginning. In
order to insure your success in this course we
must work as a team where I am your coach in
encouraging to learn. I can only teach you if
you want to learn. Keep a positive outlook and
remember only you can earn your grade, I can
only evaluate your effort and product.
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Course Description
In this course we will develop and perfect our
command of the English language through
bettering our reading, writing, and speaking
skills. We will further our understanding of
the written language, history and culture
through a study of the vast and diverse literary
works. The genres covered include the short
story and novel, as well as poetry, nonfiction, and drama.
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Course Description
Students will complete various types of writing
assignments
– Imaginative/Narrative
– Sensory/Descriptive
– Practical/Informative
– Analytical/Expository
(ONE PER MONTH—DETAILS WILL FOLLOW),
Students will compose five-paragraph essays and
write an MLA-style research paper.
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Course Description
Writing assignments will also emphasize critical
response to and analysis of the literary selections.
There are numerous and varied components to
learning a language and studying literature.
Therefore, proper and meaningful participation in
all aspects of the class is crucial and will affect
your grade. Being on time and prepared for class
is a major part of proper participation.
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REQUIRED TEXTS
• Edge ™ Reading, Writing, and Language Textbook and
Workbook
• Language Network (McDougal, Littell (We will be
visiting the library for you to pick up).
• CVUHSD Writers Handbook
• The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
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Course Assignments
– Textbook Work (Elaborated in
Handouts)
– Interactive Reader
• Vocabulary CST Top 100 (!0 per week)
– Vocabulary (Flash Cards) 10 words per
week.
– Vocabulary (Sentences) 10 per week
– Vocabulary Quizzes (1 per week)
– Grammar Book (Homework) minimum
of three assignments per week.
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Course Assignments
– Vocabulary CST Top 100 (!0 per week)
– Textbook/Interactive Reader
Assignments
– Reflect and Asses and Analyze
Comprehension checks from course readings
– Respond to questions and directions
in Interactive Reader
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Course Assignments
– Writing Assignments (Quickwrites,
and a monthly essay)
– Class Meeting Agendas (Copy them as
soon as class begins into a section of
your binder that should be labeled
“Agenda”)
– MLA Term Paper (5 pages) Begin in
May and Due on Friday, June 5, 2009.
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Course Assignments
PowerPoints/Cornell Notes
Teacher will occasionally distribute
PowerPoints which students will be
required to transfer into their own
words into Cornell Note format.
Teacher will also require daily Cornell
Notes when blank or Pre-filled
Cornell Forms are distributed for
reviewing the lesson.
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Units to be Covered During 2nd Semester
Unit 3: The Hero Within EQ What Makes a Hero?
Page 190
Unit 4: Opening Doors EQ How Can Knowledge
Open Doors? Page 294
Unit 5: Fear This! EQ What Makes Something
Frightening? Page 388
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Units to be Covered During 2nd Semester
Unit 6: Are You Buying It? EQ How Do the Media
Shape the Way People Think? Page 486
Unit 7: Where We Belong EQ What Holds Us
Together? What Keeps Us Apart? Page 578
 Consult Monthly Reading Assignments on Calendar
(Handouts and Online)
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Supplies
• Random checks of Supplies will be conducted for
class points. Forget your supplies lose out on points.
Remembering your supplies demonstrates your
responsibility.
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Pens and pencils
Highlighters
College ruled paper
A 3-ring binder with dividers
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Supplies
Divider Sections/Tabs
•Calendar
•Daily Agendas
•Classwork/Homework
•Today I learned…(You are to use the last five
minutes of every class meeting to write a
summary of what you leaned/or a list of five
questions minimum on the days’ lesson.)
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Classroom Rules/Policies
Attendance There are approximately
80 hours/periods in the semester. You
will receive 10 points for every
hour/period of participation. If you
are absent you are not participating.
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Classroom Rules/Policies
On block schedule days you earn 20
participation points and on regular days
(all classes meet) you can earn 10
participation points, no matter how long
the period. This also applies to minimum
days. Since you are enrolled in two
sections you will be graded accordingly,
what your earn in the first section
transfers to the second section.
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Classroom Rules/Policies
For every 20 class periods missed (200
points, and approximately ¼--Yes 25
percent of the semester) your final grade
will be lowered one letter grade. Your
participation is essential to your passing
the course.
Show up!
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Classroom Rules/Policies
–Punctuality Students are to be seated
and ready to work before the tardy
bell rings.
–Zero Tolerance Cell Phones that are
being used for any purpose during
class will be confiscated by security
for parental pick up, no exceptions.
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Classroom Procedures
–Students will be silent and listen attentively
when the teacher speaks.
–Students will remain in their assigned seats
and only get up with teacher permission.
–Teacher dismisses class after the school
dismissal bell. If the bell is not working
teacher will dismiss class two minutes after
scheduled release.
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Classroom Procedures
1. Students will raise hand and wait for permission to
speak.
2. Students will remain quiet if one of their peers is
speaking with permission.
3. Students will only use appropriate classroom
language.
4. Students will abstain from all vulgar, obscene, and
profane language.
5. Students will show respect to the class, to their
peers and to the process.
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Consequences for Violating
Classroom Rules and Procedures
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One example of violating class rules and procedures
could be having side conversations during Teacher
Directed Instruction. If you violate it will lead to
One verbal warning.
Thirty minutes detention.
Phone call to home.
Referral for parent/guardian conference and
suspension.
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Be Advised….
In addition to having to complete all course
work and adhere to classroom procedures,
students are subject to additional
assignments not mentioned in this
presentation. Further assignments will be
listed in Course Outline and/or in monthly
class calendar available online and in
hardcopy by this Friday.
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Parent/Student Acknowledgement
of Academic and Social
Expectations
Please sign below to acknowledge that your child has
reviewed this PowerPoint as their first REQUIRED
homework assignment.
Parent/Guardian_____________________
Student_____________________
Dated: _________________________
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