Welcome!

Hello, I'm Ms. Azadian or Ms. A, and welcome to 10th grade English class. 

This year. . .

we will be reading nonfiction and fiction and continuing to build your reading comprehension, writing, analytical, and critical thinking skills. Some writers that we will read are William Shakespeare, Laurie Halse Anderson, Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King Jr., Elie Wiesel, Malala Yousafzai, Edgar Allen Poe, Langston Hughes, Kate Chopin, along with some of your picks. We will read a variety of texts including novels, short stories, plays, speeches, and poetry. 

Tests and Grading Policies

There is no Regents exam for this English course. Rather, we will continue to give you the skills necessary to do well on the exam next year. There will be pre-assessments, unit tests, quizzes, and post-assessment given in class. I will notify you in class well before the assessment takes place. There will be multiple-choice tests, but most will be short responses. We will have review sessions before unit tests.  There are no pop quizzes in the class. Under the Assignment tab, you will find due dates for assignments, essays, and tests The dates listed are tentatively planned. We may have to push back some dates, depending on our pace of the material. I will never move a due date forward.  

I will give feedback on essay drafts as long as you submit your draft to me 4 days before the final submission. Although, the earlier the better when it comes to writing. Learning and growth have no deadline therefore, you allowed to revise essays all year long. 

Essays and projects are graded through a rubric. These will change over the course of the year plus, we as a class will make a rubric altogether by the end of the year for your final project.

You can find more under the Assignment & Assessment Tab or by clicking this.

For Caregivers

Below are links to organizations that are resources for your child(ren).

Teaching Tolerance - Provide resources for the classroom regarding social justice, diversity, and inclusion. Provides material for English Language Arts, Social Studies, History, and Economics for grades 3-12.

Khan Academy - Provides comprehensive resources for English Langauge Arts along with other courses. They also provide test preparation, life skills, computing lessons from PreK-college.

LearnZillion - Provides an abundance of instructional videos for English Language Arts grades 3-12.

You can also find more enrichment and fun resources for specific units under the Enrichment tab or by clicking this.

This classroom makes it appoint to recognize multiculturalism and that English may not be the primary language at home. If you are looking to read with your child(ren) please contact me as I have a few translated versions of the book we will be reading. 

Links

 About me page and Contact information