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Karen Field

Dr. Repman

FRIT 7134

6 February 2010

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This plan is for Lakeside High School in Evans, GA. Lakeside is one of 5 high schools in

the Columbia County system. There are eight middle schools that feed into the high schools in

the county; two middle schools, Riverside and Lakeside Middle are feeder schools for Lakeside

High School. Lakeside was built twenty years ago to alleviate overcrowding of Evans High

School and added a wing eight years ago to accommodate our expanding population. Columbia

County has experienced growth in spite of surrounding counties having to close schools.

Lakeside¶s household per capita income and medium housing value in Columbia County are one

of the highest in the Augusta Metro area. Parents of Columbia County students view education

as a priority and maintain high expectations for the school system. The school population

reflects the community; it is composed of students with varying academic skills and career

interests. A strong, challenging curriculum is designed to address these individual needs and to

help encourage and develop productive self-motivated adults.

The school is known for its strong academic focus, commitment to students, and

dedicated parental and community involvement. Lakeside High School has been awarded the

prestigious Georgia School of Excellence Award three times (1993, 1995, 2005) and has been

ranked one of -

 top schools in the country two years in a row. Although the school

was built to answer the demands of a burgeoning area, Lakeside has served as a primary catalyst

for further residential development.

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Lakeside High School serves a variety of socioeconomic levels. Primarily though, our

students hail from middle to upper middle class households. Enrollment at Lakeside was1737

for the 2007-2008 school year; it is presently at 1790. The ethnic composition for Lakeside High

School student population was 73.3% white, 13.4% Black, 2.2% Hispanic, 9% Asian/South

Pacific, and 2.1% other. The number of students identified as Economically Disadvantaged

decreased to 13%, a two percent change from the previous year.

There are approximately 450 ninth grade students, 8 ninth grade Language Arts teachers,

and 2 Special Education Inclusion teachers who work with this population. The average class

size is 29 with the exception of the ninth grade gifted population classes (three classes, which

make up about 45 students). There are approximately 8 inclusion students in the College Prep

ninth grade classes. This is the second year that the Technical Prep program was eliminated.

Lakeside has approximately 32 special education students and 4 English Language Learners who

make up this ninth grade student population. The ethnic diversity of this class is similar to that

of the school.

The reading levels of the ninth grade vary from 4th grade to 12+. Our school offers a

Basic Skills Class for those students who experienced reading comprehension difficulties in

middle school, so those who are not reading on grade level are placed into these classes. The

CRCT reading comprehension section of the test assists the registrar in placing these students. In

order to get a picture of the ninth grade class, I pulled their CRCT scores from the spring and

noted the Lexile scores and did a reading level correlate. This group¶s Lexile scores range from

915-1265, which equates to a 6-7th grade reading level for choosing pleasure reading materials.

Completing a reading inventory from this group revealed that most of them do not like the read

and those who do read for pleasure choose predominately mystery and science fiction. I also
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looked at the results of their last reading comprehension benchmark; 50% of the class failed the

standard on this benchmark which implies a weakness in that area. As such the books in the

media center that would be most applicable for where there are at present should be closer to the

upper-middle-school level.

 
   

For this activity, I have chosen to focus on poetry. The ninth grade teachers teach a unit of

poetry during second semester and most teachers assign students the task of researching a poet¶s

life in order to write a paper where the students analyze how the poet¶s life and times influenced

what he/she has written. The following standards are addressed within this unit:

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