The main aims of this class are to help you improve your reading skills, broaden your intellectual horizons and guide you to mature conversation. While introducing you to literature, art and a foreign culture you will be able to develop your ability to creating, imagining and solving aesthetic problems. You are expected to be hardworking, committed, creative and mature learners. Feel free to complementing with any material or content that may enrich our experience.
I am willing to show a positive attitude that makes you feel comfortable, openness to your comments and feedback and respect (if you consider that my way of treating you is not appropriate, please let me know and we will certainly discuss it). I would like to guide you towards your personal development and autonomy for I want you to take your own decisions and assume their consequences. I can also guarantee that this is not an easy class. A lot of working needs to be done, a lot of thinking is required and often, students get frustrated because, there are no easy answers. I invite you to relax and enjoy the ride; there are several things that you may learn about creative processes, literature and life. Instead of becoming obsessed about results and grades, you should focus on your own intellectual growth.
In order to make the best of this school year, there are a number of things that you should keep in mind. Therefore, I am providing you with a set of rules and guidelines that you can also find at www.mrfajardosnotes.blogspot.com.
1.-As you may guess, school rules are to be followed all the time.
2.- Take into account that students are required to comply with 80% attendance in order to have the right to take both, period and final exams. There are attitudes that can lead you to have an absence in class:
a) Arrive late
b) Not bringing your book or the material required
c) Sleeping
d) Failing to wear your complete uniform
e) Behaving in a way that stops me from giving the class
3- Discipline is to be observed in order to keep an adequate environment. If we all talk at the same time, it will be impossible to communicate. The same rule applies with the use of cell phones, ipods, games, gadgets or anything that keeps you from paying attention or that shows the teacher that you do not care.
4.-Wait for your teacher inside the classroom and make sure that it is clean and the benches properly. Each lesson is designed to last 40 minutes; therefore if everything is ready, we may go through the program on time. Else, we will have to stay until we finish with the class content.
5.- Reach me at my office for questions, further information, o extra help for your projects.
6.- For this course you are required to keep a reading journal that is evaluated with the 20% of your monthly grade. It should be hosted on a Blogger blog, and I need to have your URL. To make sure that I am following your updates, check the “Class Blogs” list on the sidebar of http://mrfajardosnotes.blogspot.com. If your blog is listed there, it means that I am aware of it. You should have a new post for each reading of the course. And your journal must be updated after every lesson. The comments that you make on your classmates’ blogs are also taken into account for your evaluation. They do not have a concrete value, but they show your interest and they may give you extra decimals
7.-Another 20% of the monthly grade is your Art Project. With it, you are expected to show your ability to react to a literary text, to ask yourself a number of questions and to find a creative way throughout a concrete product that makes you proud. The characteristics of this project are going to be written in a different document.
8.- Written homework and projects should be in every case handed in on time, typed and following the APA style manual protocol. An electronic copy should also be delivered to my email before the deadline’s lesson.
9.- Should you have any questions or comments throughout the course, contact me at meanmrteacher@gmail.com
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