COURSE OVERVIEW:
Alamosa High School
805 Craft Drive, Alamosa, Colorado 81101 | (719) 587-6000
Community:
❏ Alamosa, Colorado
❏ Remote Town
❏ Population: 8,780
❏ Male: 4,320
❏ Female: 4,460
Grade Level: (9-12)
❏ Specifically: Grade 9 Honors English Course
Class size: 27 students (7 Male, 20 Female)
This number is inspired from my own student experience at AHS.
Course: English Language Arts (Honors English 9)
This course involves studies of various forms of writing, in which students will be introduced
to canonical, modern and young adult literature. Students will be expected to participate in
discussions, collaborate with peers, complete reading questions, quizzes, essays, group projects,
presentations, a speech, a midterm and a final exam. Throughout the year, students will read and
write in class daily and keep a writer’s notebook. This course will explore several topics and moves
at a much faster pace than English 9 courses, since it is an honors course. Also, we will work with
more advanced works/assignments, experience intensive reading depending on the unit, and
students will be held to higher performance standards and quality of work.
Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
· Achieve character and idea development.
· Analyze themes through basic writing skills.
· Understand an author’s craft and purpose through literary techniques.
· Analyze text and present an oral argument.
· Analyze and form an argument.
· Integrate multiple sources to create a project evaluating culture.
School History: struggled finding this information on all platforms
Alamosa High School has an outstanding history in both academics and athletics. The school offers
dual enrollment and concurrent enrollment courses in partnership with Trinidad State College and
Adams State University, as a method for students to earn college credit. Since Alamosa is a rural
area, agricultural education is vast and was recently honored with a brand new greenhouse building.
The school also built a new stadium/track and field a few years ago, as the Mean Moose “have a
proud tradition as one of the most competitive and accomplished athletic programs in the state.”
https://ahs.alamosa.k12.co.us
Teaching History:
School or Agency Dates Length of Experience Responsibilities
Hours, Days, Month)
Poudre High School August-December 2018 In Progress Placed with matchup
teacher Katy Sayers in
her 9th grade MYP
English course. Will be
teaching lessons,
providing assistance to
instructor/students in the
classroom and grading
papers.
AVID Tutor in Training August-December 2018 16 Hours Tutoring at Fort Collins
High School (9th
grade), answering
questions, homework
help, reviewing
completed work,
teaching daily).
Lesher Middle School January-May 2018 4 Hours a Week Placed with cooperating
teacher Jennifer
Jennings in 7th grade
remedial
reading/writing
classroom. Worked
alongside struggling
students, answered
questions and graded
student assignments.
Volunteer dance
chaperone; worked with
student council group
and cooperating teacher
throughout semester to
put on the school dance
and chaperoned students
during event.
Rocky Mountain High August-October 2017 25 Hours Classroom Volunteer
School (Aaron Knobloch):
Worked with students
grades 9-11 on
vocabulary, grammar,
reading and writing
assignments.Worked
alongside struggling
students.
Blevins Middle School August-December 2017 4 Hours a Week Assisted and worked
with cooperating teacher
Rachel Bednar in her 7th
grade English course
throughout the semester.
Answered homework
questions,
lesson/instruction,
questions. Worked
alongside struggling
students.
Student Population:
❏ Enrollment: 509 students ❏ Student-Teacher Ratio: 17:1
❏ Total Minority Enrollment: 67% ❏ Full-Time Teachers: 30
❏ Total Economically Disadvantaged: ❏ Gender Distribution:
54% ❏ Female: 52%
❏ Free Lunch Program: 45% ❏ Male: 48%
❏ Reduced-Price Lunch Program:
9%
School: (including test/performance scores) District: (including test/performance scores)
❏ Graduation Rate: 92% ❏ Total Schools: 2
❏ Higher than Colorado’s average ❏ College Readiness Index (district
graduation rate of 76% average): 32.1
❏ Dropout Rate: 8% ❏ ELA Performance by gender overall in
❏ AP Tested: 53% district:
❏ AP Passed: 43% ❏ Female: 52%
❏ Mathematics Proficiency: 9% ❏ Male: 37%
❏ Colorado Measures of Academic
Success (CMAS): 12.8%
❏ ELA Performance by gender:
❏ Females: 57%
❏ Males: 42%
❏ ELA Performance by Ethnicity:
❏ Caucasian: 62%
❏ Hispanic: 42%
❏ ELA Performance School Average:
48%
❏ Students with limited English
Proficiency: 11%
❏ ACT Performance: 18.8 Composite
Score
❏ English: 17.4
Resources:
❖ US News
❖ StartClass
❖ Suburban Stats
❖ AHS Website
