1. Public Speaking:
  2. Jobs: 
  3. Science Fiction:
  4. Creative Writing/Reading for Pleasure:
  5. Children’s Lit.: 

In this course, you will meet several opportunities, within a range of topics:
 
 
 
Public Speaking:
 How Can You Use Your Words to Change the Society Immediately Around You?
This unit enables you to conquer the single, most feared task—speaking in public. (Take thirty seconds on the Internet to search opinions on public speaking; that will confirm that this is the single most feared task.) We’ll make that easier, in about 5 weeks.
 

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Jobs:  
 How to Get a Career— the First Step
This unit will help to confirm your career path, and will take about 5 or 6 weeks. In this unit, you will research potential careers, develop interview skills, and present yourself in person and on paper. For part of it, you will write a college application as well as job applications.
 

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Science Fiction:
 Other Worlds, Other Times, Other Ways
This unit will show you other ways of seeing the world, and will last about 7 weeks. Our text and movies will lead you to other cultures in the traditional science fiction genre.
Newspaper :  
 What Is the Truth, the Whole Truth, Nothing But the Truth?
This unit will lead you to more precision in reporting, and will last about 8 weeks. You will form a newspaper staff, solve reporting, writing, and production problems: this is real.
 
 

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Creative Writing/Reading for Pleasure:
 You will have opportunity to read and write in several genres, for about 5 weeks.
 

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Children’s Lit.:  
 Why Do Children Read?
This unit will help you to deal with children and may help you to see why you work as you do. It will take about 8 weeks. You will work with other students and with youngsters. Everyone loves this unit.
 
 

Plagiarism : We are bound, by honor and by the Dundee discipline code, to attribute others’
  ideas,
  information, and
  phrasing
to those others.
 
Any assignment violating this requirement at any stage of any draft will earn a zero immediately. Read the Student Handbook for other consequences. If you have doubts or questions about what you’re doing, see your teacher.
 
 
Evaluation: Use the rubrics or grading guides to make your success easier..
 
 
Grades:  Class participation: 25%
 Projects: 75%
 
 
Plans: You can get lesson plans from our room door and by going on the Internet to <http://docushare.edutech.org >, clicking on the EduTech School Districts folder, then on the Dundee Central School folder, next on the Junior–Senior High School folder, and finally on the folder for our plans.
 
 
Contacting me You can voicemail me at 607-243-5533 ext 7219
 and you can email me at
 <mscher@dundeecs.org>.
(If you post this information on your refrigerator, you’ll be able to use it easily!)

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I have read the course syllabus for English 12.
 
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Mark Scher . . . draft of 07/28/05 . . . printed Aug 3, 2005 . . . page 1 of 1