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Unit Description
Students will use their summer reading texts to refresh skills of summary and theme analysis, which students will demonstrate through a theme-focused explanatory essay.
Essential Question
How do people overcome adversity?
Materials Needed
- 1.5” binder
- 1 subject notebook
- Summer reading text
Grading Scale
- Class Practice: 20%
- Homework: 30%
- Assessments: 50%
Office Hours
Tuesday 4pm-5pm
Make-up/Absent Policy
- It is the student’s responsibility to retrieve work from days missed from the letter box at the front of the room.
- Missing assignments may be turned in up to 1 week after the original due date.
- Revised assignments may be turned in up to 1 weeks after they are returned to you.
- All homework and exit tickets can be revised. Any specific changes to this policy is at the teacher’s discretion (it’s up to the teacher).
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