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= Taipei Wego Private Senior High School International Education Program =

=Welcome Students and parents!= =Inside you will find International student's portfolios, homework pages and handouts on what students are currently working on and links to other helpful pages.=

**For the Taipei Wego Private Senior High School International Program Composition Class, see below**

= = = = = Grade 11 + 12 Literature Course Overview: =

**Grade 12:**The Oedipus cycle, by Sophocles; //Hamlet//, by William Shakespeare; //Candide//, by Voltaire; //Great Expectations//, by Charles Dickens;; and //Tess of D'Urbervilles,// by Thomas Hardy This English Literature class hopes to engage students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer's purposes, audience expectations, and subjects as well as the way generic conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing. Classes will be student-centered and require students to participate meaningfully everyday, to read and reread the texts in order to make careful observations of textual detail, establish connections among their observations, and draw from those connections a series of inferences leading to an interpretive conclusion about the work’s meaning and value. Discussions in the form of a Socratic Circle are frequent and require a student to respond to literature that we work with in class as well as literature that has not been analyzed or discussed in the classroom. The writing assignments will involve the same types of responses with the goal being to increase students’ ability to explain clearly, cogently, even elegantly, what they understand about literary works and why they interpret them as they do.
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 * Grade 11: **Holt McDougal Literature Grade 11
 * __ Course Description __**** : **

Conferencing and revision with classmates and the teacher will be an important part of the writing process in this class. Students should come each day to class prepared to interact. Much of the knowledge gained will be from listening and learning not only from the teacher but also from each other. As they write, share their product, and revise, it is hoped they will grow as a writer and gain an understanding of what good writing encompasses: a strong focus, logical organization, effective syntactic structure, and textual evidence to support your assertions. **Classwork (55%):** Homework (10%), Annotating (10%), Socratic Circle (10%), Quizzes (10%) Short Essays/Presentations (15%) All papers are due one week before "big tests" (段考)
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 * Exams (45%): ** 1st Exam : Sophocles Term Paper; Second Exam: Shakespeare Term Paper; Final Exam: Voltaire Term Paper

1) Students are expected to come to class on time, prepared and with a positive attitude every day.   -Being prepared includes having done the reading and annotating for the scheduled class and being alert and focused as soon the bell rings with only those things necessary for Lit class out on one’s desk. Annotating will not be able to be made up. Failure to be ready for class or speaking in Chinese more than once in a class period will result in 1 point taken off of the final grade for each occurrence.    -All //other// assignments will be deducted 10% per day late. **Note:** It is the //students'// responsibility for making sure all assignments have been handed in at the beginning of class. There will be no extra credit given or papers re-written. **All grades are final**.    2) Students are responsible for obtaining homework and notes from the day (s) they are absent. It is also expected that students request homework //well in advance// for scheduled absences. 3) Students will present their own work at all times. Plagiarism or the misrepresentation of one's work will not be tolerated and will result in a zero grade.   4) Students are not just responsible for, but encouraged to ask questions when instructions and/or topics covered are not clear.
 * __ Expectations of students __** **:**
 * Grades 10 + 11 Composition Course Overview: **
 * Grades 10 + 11 Composition Course Overview: **
 * Grades 10 + 11 Composition Course Overview: **

**__Goals__:** The focus of this course is to not only polish the writing of college bound students, but to improve students' confidence in their abilities in order to become prepared, active participants in university and beyond. This course will also introduce different types of expository and narrative writing—those types which students will be expected to have mastered as college freshmen—and finally, to challenge the students to reach a more technically advanced level of thinking and composition. The students involved should be those willing to exert more effort, time, and thought to earn an outstanding grade. The writing process is used, and much time is spent on elemental aspects of writing. The students will also master the concept of peer editing which will enable them to see and practice correct use of Standard English in the work of others which, in turn, will carry over to their own work.

**__Materials__:** Houghton Mifflin Harcourt //Write Source// textbook and handouts

 1) Students are expected to come to class prepared and with a positive attitude every day.  Being prepared includes having done the reading for the scheduled class and any bookwork that was assigned. Failure to do so will constitute a zero for a homework grade that day  and will not be able to be made up.  2) Students are responsible for obtaining homework and notes from the day (s) they are absent. It is also expected that students request homework well in advance for scheduled absences.  3) Students will present their own work at all times. Plagiarism or the misrepresentation of one's work will not be tolerated.  4) Students will treats everyone in the classroom with respect and equity. Derogatory comments and fowl language will not be tolerated in the classroom, as to maintain a comfortable environment, open to student learning and participation. 5) Students are not just responsible for, but encouraged to ask questions when instructions and/or topics covered are not clear.
 * __Expectations of students__: **

 1) Keep a journal  2) Revise, edit, publish, assess and reflect on writing done during class using the 6 traits. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> 3) Help maintain class Lesson Log on Taipei Wego International Program <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Composition Class Wiki <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">4) Regular grammar assessments 5) Read the text to be covered before the text is covered in class and do any bookwork assigned with it to ensure comprehension
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">__Homework__: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Found on the Homework Page

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**__Assessment__**: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> 1) Response to writing prompts <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> 2) Final research paper

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