• Any student who did not pass and assignment, quiz, or test may ask for tutoring and the opportunity to make a second attempt in order to earn up to a 70%. *This does not include failure due to being late with an assignment.
• It is up to the student to schedule a tutoring session (withing 2 days of the failing grade being posted in Skyward) before he or she will be allowed to make up the assignment or test.
• If the student does not meet with his/her teacher for tutoring, and/or another attempt within the agreed upon time frame, the original grade will remain.
• Students who are absent for a test will have up to two weeks to make it up. 

The goals of the ELA course are for students to: 

• Read and understand a wide variety of literay and informational texts
• Compose a variety of written texts with a clear controlling idea, coherent organization, and sufficient detail 
• Research to locate a range of relevant sources and evaluate, synthesize, and present ideas and information
• Listen and respond to the ideas of others while contributing their own ideas in conversations and in groups
• Learn how to use the oral and written conventions of the English language in speaking and writing.

All students have a required summer reading assignment each year.