Class requirements:
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Text
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Three ring binder/organizer and paper
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Pencil or pen
Grading Policy and Extra Credit:
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Extra credit opportunities may afforded
during the course of each quarter as determined by the teacher.
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Your grades will be posted online. You will be expected to regularly check
online to determine your progress.
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Late assignments may be turned in for half
credit. All assignments (unless otherwise noted) are due at the beginning of
class, any assignment turned in after I collect your work will be considered
late.
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Any assignment, quiz, or test that is missed
during an unexcused absence will not be accepted for credit. Make-up opportunities only apply to excused
absences.
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When a student cuts class, any missed
assignment, quiz, or test will not be accepted for credit.
Suspensions
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As per school policy, any assignment, quiz,
or test that is missed during a first suspension offense may be made up for
full credit. However, any missed
assignment must be turned in immediately upon return or else it will be
considered late and as such will be marked as half credit.
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A per school policy, any assignment, quiz, or
test that is missed during a second suspension offense will not be accepted for
credit.
Website, Class Calendar and Absences:
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I will maintain a website that will include
rules and expectations, links, class syllabus, selected
assignments/notes/readings, grades, and a month-by-month calendar.
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Students are responsible for finding out what
materials were covered in class during an absence. This should be done by
checking the posted class calendars/website, or meeting with me during a
teacher-planning period or before or after school. Do not use the beginning of class to ask me
what you missed.
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Students who are absent the day of a test or
quiz will be required to take the missed test upon their return. The exception
is students who have been absent one or more days prior to the test.
Discipline Plan and Rules
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Although you are responsible for compliance
with all rules within the student handbook, I feel obliged to stress the
following rules:
o Be on time (three tardies equals a teacher detention).
o Do not speak when I am conducting class. Raise your hand to be
recognized.
o Respect the rights of others to present their opinions in class.
o No electronic devices (ipods, cell phones,
etc.)
o No food or pop in class.
o Sit in you assigned seat and do not mill around the door at the end of
class.
o Come prepared for class (I do book checks).
o
Don’t
vandalize or litter the room.
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All
violations of classroom rules will result in documentation in the discipline
log. Following are the graduated
consequences for repeated violations of classroom rules:
o
Student-teacher
conference
o
Teacher
detention
o
Parent
contact
o
Parent
contact and office detention
o
Office
referral (extended day or suspension)
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The exception to the above sequence are infractions of school
rules outlined within the student handbook that merit immediate and severe
punishment.
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Teacher
detentions will be served before school in a class and at a specific time to be
determined. The length will be fifteen minutes.
Students will have two days to serve a teacher detention. Failure to
serve a teacher detention will result in the issuance an office detention.