English 10 Folders

Each time a classwork or homework assignment is turned in, it is scored and returned to the student with a green number on it. At this point the score has not been recorded; the student must keep the paper for three weeks maximum. Every third Friday all papers are placed in a folder and submitted for a single composite grade covering the three week period.

Therefore, the question “Is student X missing any assignments” is one that I am not able to give specific answers to. The general rule-of-thumb would be that higher folder scores would indicate that assignments are being turned in and lower folder scores would indicate the possibility of missing assignments. But even then it’s not that simple because some students will receive higher scores, some lower, on any given assignment. So a folder score is a combination of, on one hand, doing the work to begin with and, on the other hand, the scores received on the assignments.

For many, these summary, composite scores are good enough. However, if you would like to keep closer tabs on classwork and homework completion, that can be done in two ways.

1. After each folder collection, students receive their papers back, along with their score. The paper that shows the folder score also contains a list of the assignments that were supposed to be in that folder. (This same list can be found by scrolling down this document.) So comparing the actual papers to the assignment titles on the list can give an accurate answer to the “doing the work” question.
2. The first method is a way to check retroactively. For those who don’t want to wait for the folder collection to check for “doing the work,” there is another method for checking. Go to the “What We Did” file on my Webpage. That file will indicate all assignments that we are doing in class. Since assignments are returned to students, students have their completed papers in their possession. (Of course, the delay between turning in a paper and getting them back is usually a few days, and this delay must be allowed for.)

Listed below are the classwork and homework assignments that belong in the folder collections. The number after the dash is the number of points possible, though sometimes this number is more of an estimate than an exact number.

FOLDER 1

· commas 1, 2, & 3 – 6

· journal of a survivor – 12

· commas 4 & 5 – 6

· monkey’s paw safety instructions – 20

· class rules questions – 10

· commas 6 & review exercise 2 – 7

· unit 1 short story notes – 16

· literary terms questions – 16

· allusion activities – 12

FOLDER 2

· commas 7 & 8 – (7)

· commas 9 & review exercise 3 – (8)

· commas 10 & 11 – (5)

· commas practice test – (5)

· comma notes – (5)

· advice column – (25)

· nonfiction notes/study sheet – (15)

· nonfiction questions 1 – (15)

· nonfiction questions 2 – (15)

FOLDER 3

· English 10 Pretest Sentences to Copy – (10)

· Random Writing Topics – (10)

· Prepositional Phrases 1 – (5)

· Prepositional Phrases 2 – (7)

· Writing Sentences with Prepositional Phrases 1 – (15)

· Open Windows Classwork – (15)

· Unit 2 Short Story Classwork 1 – (14)

· Gerund Phrases 1 – (6)

· Before the Law Evaluation – (10)

· Unit 2 Short Story Classwork 2 – (20)

· Writing Sentences with Prepositional Phrases 2 – (25)