NEHS Advanced Placement

Beginning 1st Semester 2005-06, all juniors at North Eugene High School are taking Advanced Placement English classes. In addition to providing high expectations and opportunities for all students, there is also a support program to assure success for all students. For each AP English class, an AP Support course has been created.

Students may be enrolled in the AP Support course in one of two ways:

1. When a student's grade drops below a C, s/he will be required to enroll in and attend AP Support until the end of the current quarter. If at that time the student's grade has risen to a C or above, s/he will be excused from AP Support the next quarter, unless his or her grade again falls below a C.
2. Students may voluntarily enroll in AP Support.

In addition, any student may drop-in to AP Support at any time to have a quiet place to study or get help from the AP Support teacher (especially valuable if a student has been absent from AP class).

AP Support meets the first 45 minutes of the period, Monday through Thursday, on the days the student doesn't meett with his or her AP class. Students who enroll in AP Support for an entire quarter and hwo meet course requirements will earn 1/8 English credit. Thus a student enrolled in AP Support for the entire year will earn 1/2 English credit.

Below is a glimpse of how the AP Support course works:

Shadiin Garcia, one of the AP Support course teachers, starts the class by handing out the Exit Slips, a reminder of class expectations.	In addition to holding students accountable for their class behavior, the slip also shows the regular AP teacher that the student is participating.	Shadiin explains theAP Support point system fo a student who was absent from his regular class, and asks him if he's ready to take the quiz that he missed.
The AP Support course point sheet.	After checking the point sheet to see what is missing, Shadiin helps a student select what task she needs to do next to keep up with her class.	A sample assignment sheet - this one for a performance project involving memorization, costume and acting.
Forgot your book, mislaid your copy of the script? Go to the website and print it out!	Students in the AP Support course are put into teams for the project.	First they work on reading and understanding their portion of the play, The Tempest.
This team begins to plot out the interaction of the characters - who moves where when?	An additional support for students is an audio tape so that they can hear how one troupe gave verbal interpretation through expression.	Now this team has to decide how they will interpret their scene for the class performance.