Coach Hurst’s English Class

1. Coach Hurst’s English Class • 1st period- ENG III • 2nd period- ENG III • 3rd period- Pre-AP II • 4th period- Pre-AP II(B Lunch) • 5th period- ENG III • Come in and find your seat on seating chart.

2. Introductions • You • Please stand and say your full name • State your favorite book, poem, short story, or song • State something interesting about yourself • Please come get your login information for the textbook website.

3. Class Expectations • Class Rules • 1. Respect the person whom is speaking • 2. Keep your hands to yourself. • 3. Bring all necessary materials to class • 4. Do things when asked the first time. • 5. I am not going to jail for anyone. • 6. Do not do anything stupid.

4. Classroom Behavior • Tardiness:  You will be counted tardy if you are not inside the classroom when the tardy bell rings. • Behavior:No one has the right to interfere with the learning, safety, or well being of others.  You are responsible for you behavior at all times.  • Excessive talking will be warned ONCE. Continued talking will be addressed with being removed from the learning environment and directed to a principal.

5. Class Expectations cont. • Necessities • 5 Dividers • 1 Spiral Notebook • 2 blue/black ink pens • 1 in. 3-ring binder • 1 Flash Drive

6. Starting the Period •  All homework is due at the beginning of the class unless otherwise instructed by the teacher. • If it is not in the bin when class starts, it is late. • Come in quietly and take you seat. • Be ready to answer the bell-ringer question in your spiral.

7. Classroom Instruction • Students should come prepared to discuss the topic of the day. A failure to come prepared (attempt to answer questions when called or not following with the reading) will result in a reduction in the student’s daily grade. • All students should be prepared to take notes in class. All literary test questions will originate from notes that are placed on the board during class. An easy way to succeed is to write down all you need to know.

8. Hall Passes • Hall passes will NOT be given out during the first 15 minutes of class or the last 15 minutes of class. • Hall passes will only be granted between those times, for emergencies, and only to students who have strived to actively participate in class. • The student should attempt to use the bathroom in the five minute passing period. • If the student feels they will be late, they should inform the teacher of their intentions prior to using the bathroom.

9. Textbooks • The class will have one class set of textbooks. • You may NEVER take a textbook home without teacher permission. The books are very expensive and carry a heavy fine for damaging them. • In addition, every page on the textbook can be found on-line, including homework questions. • Textbook website = no excuses • http://my.hrw.com/

10. Class Dismissal • Students will work from bell to bell.  • No student may leave when the bell rings until the instructor has dismissed the entire class. • Classes will be held back until all work is turned in and all trash is picked up off the floor.

11. Academic Dishonesty • Academic dishonesty includes copying the work of another student, plagiarism, and unauthorized communication between students during an examination.  The determination that a student has engaged in academic dishonesty shall be based on the judgment of the classroom teacher or other supervising professional employee, considering written materials, observation or information from students, this includes not citing sources for academic papers.  Students found to have engaged in academic dishonesty shall be subject to disciplinary and/or academic penalties.  Such action shall be determined jointly by the teacher and campus administrator. • I have cheated a lot. You are not better than me.

12. Substitutes • During a teacher absence, a substitute is used to teach the classes for that day.  Students are expected to follow the proper behavior and procedures for this instructor.  Failure to do so will result in a parent meeting to discuss proper classroom behavioral procedures. • I pick mean subs. Be nice.

13. Late Work • If you are absent, you will be given an extra class period per absence to complete the homework.  Each student is responsible for getting and completing work that is missed; this includes work missed for being tardy. 

14. Other Procedural Info • Cell Phones. • If I see it once, you receive a warning. • Twice, I take it up. • Third time, I take it to the office and contact your parents. • This timeline throughout the grading period. All this can be made worse if you argue with me about your cell phone.

15. Other Procedural Info • Sleeping • If you fall asleep or look as if you about to fall asleep, you will be asked to stand at the back of the class. • This is not meant to embarrass you. It is meant to help you wake up. • If you are a disruption when I standing, you will be sent to the office.

16. Useful Websites • My.hrw.com : on-line textbook and writing exercises • wiki.rockwallisd.org/groups/lhurst/ • My Rockwall wiki page, containing all powerpoints. Also, the first link in Google. • http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/~butler/lc/grammarsites.html • Butler’s grammar websites

17. Books to Buy • How to Read Literature like Professor- Foster • Books to Consider Buying • Lord of the Flies- Golding • The Tempest- Shakespeare

18. Why we study English?

19. Struggles -> 10,000 hours -> Arete (glory, excellence) the hero • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXQozTxQSiE

20. Two Curriculums • Enabling vs. Parasitic • One curriculum challenges you to expand your mind, and world views. • The other feeds off your life, money, and energy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgBViHeiSKM&feature=related • Advertisements and Brand names • http://www.smartmarketingquiz.com/flash/SM_Quiz/smartmarketing.html • How do you know what you know? What is the best…? • Ideas are viruses.

21. Bell-Ringer • Why did you choose AP English over regular English? What do you hope to accomplish from your choice?

22. Do you live in the Matrix? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgBViHeiSKM&feature=related • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXQozTxQSiE

23. First Writing Assignment • Ideally this will be written in spiral. However, notebook paper will suffice for the first entry. • You will write 25 of the best sounding adjectives, nouns, verbs, and adverbs

24. Example • Adjective Noun Verb Adverb • Bulbous Apotheosis DecimateVociferously

25. Word Shopping • You must now search the room for good words. • Do so quietly • Write the name of the person that gave you the word in parentheses next to word. • You have five minutes to acquire twenty new words, 5 for each category.

26. Word Shopping: The Finale • To end your word list, you must add 20 more words to each category. • You will work outside of class on this assignment. • Ask your parents and friends. Research words. Borrow from your favorite author or performer. • Expand your vocabulary.

27. Language is MAGIC • I can control what you think. • Examples • Math, Friday, rock throwing • Throughout history words have proved to be every bit as powerful as weapons, leading some to conclude, they are weapons. • Communist Manifesto, The Bible, The Koran • Love, anger, humor, sadness are all emotions that can be created or explained by writing. • We will study the alchemy of language. • In fact, the words glamour and grammar stem from the same words “gramarye.’

28. Language is Magic • “The thing in itself is no thing. It transcends thingness, it goes past anything that could be thought. The best things can’t be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood, because those are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which can’t be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.”

29. Word Alchemy • O kinsmen we must meet the common foe! • Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, • And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! • What though before us lies the open grave? • Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, • Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

30. Bell-Ringer Conversation • What qualities distinguish man from animal?

31. Man vs. Animal • Conscious vs. Unconscious • Logical objectives vs. animal desires • Passion vs. Reason • Spiritual vs. Physical • Thoughts of future vs. immediate satisfaction • Many religions claim one must separate themselves from the desire of the flesh.

32. Place in Literature • Our stories typically give villains characteristics of animals (Tybalt) • Or, the protagonist struggle against their animal desires (Scout)

33. Man and Animal • Many cultures celebrate the endearing qualities of animals- bravery, curiosity, strength. • However, all cultures must confront the eternal question of how to justify the taking of lives. • “Life lives on lives.”

34. Ritual vs. Taboo • Rituals are those things we do to distance ourselves from our animal nature, or distract ourselves from the guilt of killing to survive. • (Marriage, Meals) • Many antagonists are guilty of breaking rituals • Taboos are those actions that delve back into the animal nature or take ritual to the extreme. • (Spoiling a Meal, Overly clean) • Protagonists are guilty of taboo in a story where the are attempting to break down restrictive social norms.

35. Others? • Based on the animal traits we discussed yesterday, what rituals have we put in place to distance ourselves from the animal within us?

36. Test Friday • DO NOT FORGET TO CHECK OUT BUTLER’S GRAMMAR WEBSITES # 1 & 3 FOR A LESSON ON NOUNS. WE WILL TEST OVER THIS KNOWLEDGE ON FRIDAY. • Also begin looking over the Vocabulary list. • The quiz is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, but it may also be a part of the Friday test.

37. Grammar and Syntax • Grammar- the rules by which a system must operate. • Syntax- those items which can very within the restricted system. • This year we will discuss the grammar of literature and the requirements all stories must fill, but we will analyze the author’s syntax for clues on how to become better writers and what one’s writing style says about their personality and the story’s deeper meaning.