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"Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

              
  Ms Louko's Classroom Links
  Teacher's Email:            lauralouko@abingtonps.org (Meet your deadlines or ask questions about long term assignments!)
   Homework Blog:             http://msloukoshomework.blogspot.com/ (You can follow the blog for reminders!)
   Period 7 Blog:                 http://allstudentsspeak.blogspot.com/ 
 
 
   Ms. Louko has been teaching at Abington High School since 2006. She is an active member of the Abington High community. This year Ms. Louko is teaching English courses at the 10th and 11th  grade levels. Ms. Louko holds a Bachelors Degree in English at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH and a Masters Degree in Education from Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, MA, her hometown. She is currently working towards a Masters Degree in English at Simmons College in Boston, MA.

 

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      American Literature is taught at the eleventh grade level. This course allows students to work on mastering advanced vocabulary and fine tuning their individual writing process in conjunction with reading and analyzing past and present American literature. The class will work to focus on deciding which issues drive America forward and which hold America back.

  Full Length Works:

19 Minutes, Jodi Picoult
Three Little Words, Ashley Rhodes-Courter
To Kill A Mockingbird by, Harper Lee
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald
 
 
 
 
Please see homework Blog Link above
for current and past assignments.

 

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           Sophomore English enables students to work on more independent reading and writing as well as discussion and presentation skills. In this course students read and analyze a variety of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama from the text. Also, six longer works are covered outside of the text. In the sophomore year, English students also publish an anthology of their own original poetry and complete an outside reading project on a book of their choice.
 
 Full Length Works:
Fahrenheit 451 by, Ray Bradbury 
The Help by, Kathryn Stockett
A Midsummer Night's Dream by, William Shakespeare
Night by, Eli Wiesel  
Antigone by, Sophocles
Lord of the Flies by, William Golding
 
 
Please see homework Blog Link above
for current and past assignments.

 

 

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Period 2 Classroom Documents Minimize
 TitleOwnerCategoryModified DateSize 
Ms Louko's Grade 11 PolicyLaura Louko 7/26/20111.50 MBDownload
American Literature Course OverviewLaura Louko 7/26/201112.25 KBDownload

Period 3, 4 and 6 Classroom Documents Minimize
 TitleOwnerCategoryModified DateSize 
Reading RequirementsLaura Louko 9/7/201128.00 KBDownload
Ms Louko's Grade 11 PolicyLaura Louko 7/26/20111.50 MBDownload
American Course Overview 2011-2012Laura Louko 7/26/201112.25 KBDownload

Period 7 Classroom Documents Minimize
 TitleOwnerCategoryModified DateSize 
Reading Log HandoutLaura Louko 7/26/201127.00 KBDownload
Reflection Paper InformationLaura Louko 9/8/201114.77 KBDownload
Literary Circle Job ListLaura Louko 10/31/201110.85 KBDownload
Ms. Louko's Grade 10 PolicyLaura Louko 7/26/20111.74 MBDownload

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 TitleOwnerCategoryModified DateSize 
MCAS Long CompLaura Louko 11/1/201031.50 KBDownload
MCAS Open ResponseLaura Louko 11/1/201023.50 KBDownload
Common Rubric for the Spoken WordLaura Louko 11/10/201034.50 KBDownload
Common Rubric for Spoken WordLaura Louko 11/10/201034.50 KBDownload
Common Rubric for Student EssaysLaura Louko 11/1/201035.50 KBDownload

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