WELCOME TO MR. ANDREWS' LANGUAGE ARTS
Welcome to a new school year. I am proud to be the new 7/8 Language Arts teacher at ISAAC and look forward to getting to know you and your students better over the next year. Since I am new to the school, I would like to give you some information on myself so that you and your student can get to know me better. I graduated from Eastern Connecticut State University in 1987 and received a B.A. in English. I worked in law enforcement and criminal justice for several years as well as being a Social Worker in the Department of Children and Families before becoming involved in education. I received a Masters of Art in Teaching from Sacred Heart University in 2001 and worked as a Crisis Intervention Coordinator and also a high school English teacher in area schools before coming to ISAAC.
Ernie Andrews
Below is some information about how class will work this year. This years expedition is Creativity and the Human Spirit.
Materials: All students should come to each class with writing utensils, notebooks, and the book that is being read.
Homework: Daily homework consists of 30 minutes of reading each night. Students are given weekly reading logs which are to be filled out each night and signed. There may be times that students will have homework other than the reading.
Assessment: Assessments will include homework, quizzes, tests and projects. Homework will count as 15%; Reading Log is 25%; Class Novel work (tests, quizzes, projects, etc.) will count as 30%; and Essays will also count as 30% of the final grade.
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