Classroom Rules and Procedures
1. Bring all needed materials to class daily unless you are otherwise advised. You will need loose-leaf paper, a 70-page theme tablet, report covers, correcting tape or Whiteout, and blue or black ink. You also need access to a dictionary and a computer. **
2. Be in your seat and ready to work on time. Not being in your seat when the bell rings counts as a late. Note- Go to the restroom, main or Guidance offices between classes or during lunch. Leaving class to go to either of these places, unless for emergencies, results in a loss of instruction and consequently affects student success. Lates may result in parental contact, after school detentions, and or main office referrals as per school policy. Please see agendas and the administration for policy updates and changes.
3. Respect and be polite to all people. This includes substitutes. If your name is left by a substitute, YOU WILL RECEIVE A DETENTION OR AN OFFICE REFERRAL. Constant talking or disrupting class will result in a detention or a referral to the office.
4. Sit in your assigned seat at all times.
5. Do all grooming in the restroom.
6. It is your responsibility to get the work you missed due to absence. Make up work is due the day after you return to school from a one absence, two days after you return from a two day absence and so on. Please see me to determine a due date for any absence longer than five days as per policy. To avoid feeling overwhelmed after an absence, please make arrangements to get the work while
you are out from your class buddy or by having a parent call the guidance office.
7. A student who will be absent from school or class for extra curricular activities must notify the teacher as soon as he or she is notified of the upcoming absence as any work given the class is still due from this student on time.
8. Adhere to assignment deadlines. Late assignments will be lowered according to the following scale. Assignments turned in after the work has been collected (on the due date) will be lowered 5 points. Assignments turned in the next day will be lowered 10 points as well as 10 points for each subsequent lateness. Once the assignment in question has been graded or reviewed, yours will no longer be accepted for credit. Long-term assignments like compositions and take-home tests will be lowered 20 points for each day of lateness. Please note: Long-term assignments (as described above) are expected by the assigned due date whether you are in school or not!
**It is strongly recommended that you have a dictionary on hand when you do your reading. Reading without a dictionary is like skydiving with a blindfold. In the case of skydiving, how do you know when to pull your parachute if you can’t see where the ground is? In the case of reading, how can you see where the author is going if you don’t know what all of his words mean? There is no shame in not knowing a word . . . unless you don’t look it up.