Grading+Breakdown+&+Policy


 * Semester exams (common assessments) are worth 20% of each semester’s grade. **

Student grades each nine weeks will be determined as follows:
 * 50% = Literature / Nonfiction analysis assignments (including seminar tickets, passage collections, scored discussions, group activities, culminating projects)
 * 30% = Writing Assignments (including timed essays, take-home essays, essay tests, and rewrites)
 * 20% = Additional Course Content (vocabulary, literary and rhetorical terms, grammar, allusions, independent reading)