Mrs. Sutton's Classroom
  • Mrs. Sutton's Classroom
  • KHS National Honor Society
  • Lesson Plans
    • 2017 Lesson Plans Week #1 August 28, 2017
    • 2017 Lesson Plans Week #2 September 5, 2016
    • 2017 Lesson Plans Week #3 September 11, 2016
    • 2017 Lesson Plans Week #4 September 18, 2016
    • 2017 Lesson Plans Week #6 October 8, 2016
    • 2017 Lesson Plans Week #8 October 16, 2016
    • 2017 Lesson Plans Week #9 October 30, 2016
  • Class Pages
    • AP Literature and Composition >
      • AP Literature and Composition Course Information
      • Summer Reading
      • Independent Reading and Semester Projects
      • Unit 1: Intro to AP & Senior Essay
      • Unit 2: Intro to Reading Poetry
      • Unit 3: Short Story Boot Camp / Point of View
      • Unit 3.1: Heart of Darkness
      • Unit 4: Metaphor, Simile, and Apostrophe
      • Unit 5: Oedipus Rex
      • Unit 6: Tone
      • Unit 7: Patterned Poetry
      • Unit 8: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
      • Unit 9: Detailed Annotation
      • Unit 10.1: Literary Movements
      • Unit 10.2: Literary Criticism
      • Unit 11: The Great Gatsby
      • Unit 13: AP Test Preparation
      • Unit 14 AP Lit Senior Research Paper
    • English 12 >
      • Things Fall Apart
      • 1984
      • The Great Gatsby
      • Night
      • Leadership in Action Research Essay
      • Career Fair and Mock Interview Unit
    • English 10 >
      • The Crucible
      • Rhetoric Unit
      • Of Mice and Men
      • American Literature Poetry
      • Into the Wild
    • Flivver Foundations, ACT, PLAN Info >
      • F.F. Test Out (English)
  • English Resources
  • Digital Tools for ELA
  • Genius Hour
    • UP MACUL Genius Hour
  • Room 100 Blog
  • Reading Strategies
  • Common Core PD
  • KHS SADD Chapter
  • Parent/Student ACT Information
  • Forensics
  • 2017 Lesson Plans Week #28 March 13, 2017

Domain 4.2 Grading Practices

Describe AND provide samples of how grading is consistent, meaningful, and how it clearly reflects student performance.

Each assessment, whether summative or formative, provides students with opportunities to practice, explore, and/or demonstrate their learning. The results are used for students to understand how and why improvement can be made. I use rubrics for nearly every written or oral presentation. In the case that a formal rubric is not developed for an individual assignment, I clearly explain to my students how I intend to evaluate them: process, mechanics, collaboration, insight, or quality and effort. In most cases, students receive the rubrics many weeks in advance and they practice scoring themselves and each other with the rubrics. Most written and oral work is scored with the same rubric (with only slight variations) so that students are familiar with expectations and terminology. Examples of student work can be viewed on my Room 100 Blog.

Domain 4.3 Routines, Procedures, and Expectations

Providing clear expectations for student behavior and establishing consistent classroom procedures allows for students to spend more time learning and teachers to spend more time teaching. A formal syllabus is provided to each of my students with an assigned task to have a parent/guardian read, sign, and return the syllabus to class. Classroom rules are clearly posted and oft referenced in class. The BYOD Contract and Digital Literacy policy allow students to understand consequences of poor decision making and make accountability clear. Lesson plans are a primary resource for communication with both students and parents. 

English 10 Syllabus with Parent Letter

English 12 Syllabus with Parent Letter

Classroom Rules

BYOD Contract

Substitute Teacher Procedures


AP Lit and Comp Syllabus with Parent Letter

Operation Graduation 

Lesson Plans

Flivver Foundations Syllabus with Parent Letter

Digital Literacy 


Domain 4.4 Rapport With Parents

Most of the documents listed above in Domain 4.3 serve as communication tools for parents. My Weebly page is probably the first point of parent communication. Through my Weebly, parents can access lesson plans and testing information, syllabi, as well as view student work on the Room 100 blog. I attempt to involve parents as much as possible in their students' work. This year I even gave my AP Lit parents homework; I asked them to write letters to their students offering words of advice similar to the words of advice Polonius offers his son Laertes. Here is the assignment. I also use frequently use e-mail communication with parents. I attempt to correspond with each parent in a way I would want my own daughters' teachers to communicate with me - professionally and compassionately.   
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