Welcome to Ms. Rothe’s on-line classroom! This is a website to assist you in any one of my classes. On this site you can look at the course description for each class and look up any ‘events’ or activities that happened in class while you were absent. As a student, you may look up any ‘homework’ assignment on the calendar and also get the work from the day you were absent on the ‘event’ section of the calendar. As a parent you can view a list of what is happening in the classroom on that same ‘events’ section of the calendar and make sure that your student is completing their homework from the ‘homework’ section of the calendar. To the best of my ability, I will have this website updated everyday by 5pm. Occasionally, there will be documents that will be available to download and print. If there is a quiz or exam that is given, it is the responsibility of the student to see Ms. Rothe within one week of the day the test was given. If there are worksheets that cannot be printed in electronic form the student should get that work from Ms. Rothe If you have the need to email me you can do that directly from this website as well. ~Ms. Rothe

Course Description: Students develop writing skills through a variety of writing activities including expository, creative, persuasive, and analytical papers. Students read and evaluate both fiction and nonfiction in a variety of formats. The focus is on World Literature and developing higher order thinking skills to deal with complex themes, ideas and vocabulary. Research and oral presentations are required. Students use technology to access information and produce required assignments.
State Standards and Assessments addressed by this course: This course is structured so as to comply with Colorado Standards for Language Arts Standards. Reading, writing, speaking and listening, information on literacy, and literature as it pertains to the media are all standards that will be addressed.
Resources/Textbook: Required resources and textbooks include: World Literature (revised edition) as well as, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (sixth edition). Other resources to be included in the course are Beowulf, The Kite Runner, and Hamlet.
Unit overview: Each novel will be a separate unit. Vocabulary, Grammar and Usage books will be used every week. There will also be a short story unit, a poetry unit, and a research unit

Students develop writing skills through a variety of writing activities including expository, creative, persuasive, and analytical papers. Students read and evaluate both fiction and nonfiction in a variety of formats. The focus is on the elements of literature and developing higher order thinking skills to deal with complex themes, ideas and vocabulary. Research and oral presentations are required. Students use technology to access information and produce required assignments.

Course Description: Students develop writing skills through a variety of writing activities including expository, creative, persuasive, and analytical papers. Students read and evaluate both fiction and nonfiction in a variety of formats. The focus is on American Literature and developing higher order thinking skills to deal with complex themes, ideas and vocabulary. Research and oral presentations are required. Students use technology to access information and produce required assignments.
State Standards and Assessments addressed by this course: This course is structured so as to comply with Colorado Standards for Language Arts Standards. Reading, writing, speaking and listening, information on literacy, and literature as it pertains to the media are all standards that will be addressed.
Resources/Textbook: Required resources and textbooks include: Elements of Literature (fifth edition) as well as, Grammar and Usage. Other resources to be included in the course are The Crucible, The Great Gatsby, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Unit overview: Each novel will be a separate unit. Vocabulary, Grammar and Usage books will be used every week. There will also be a short story unit, a poetry unit, and a research unit

Pinnacle High School
Aspen Rothe