Expectations & Policies

Communication

Please communicate with me, outside of classroom hours, via email: jenna.slack-larimer@asfg.edu.mx

Classroom Expectations, Policies and Procedures

Common High School Rules 

Community Contributor (Behavior) Grades:   Learning habits like tardiness, neatness, names on papers, hand raising, submitting parent signatures, and completion of homework can count for up to 10% of your grade in this class.  The rest of your grade will be based on your performance and mastery of the material.

Cellphones and other electronic devices - must be silenced and remain in cellphone holders, unless the teacher has given permission to use them.  Headphones may only be used with teacher permission. 

Late work:  Late homework and projects will only be assessed one school class meeting day beyond the due date and with 50% off the assessed grade, and only if it is quality work. After that, the homework should still be completed so the student is prepared for the assessment, but it will be given a zero. 

Tardies: After 10 minutes, these are unjustified absences.  Students late to 1st period must get an office pass first.  Work missed during the first minutes of class can’t be made up. No extra time will be given on assessments.  Work due at the beginning of class will be graded as late work. 

Justified Absences: Students have one school day for each day missed to make up work.  The student is responsible for establishing communication to schedule make-up work. For “On Campus Absences”, students should still hand in work and do assessments on the same due date, by the end of the day.  

Unjustified Absences: Assignments will receive a 0%, even if completed before the absence.  

Spoken Spanish vs English in classes - Teachers may include language use in the course Community Contributor grade .

Academic Dishonesty: Unless otherwise specified by the classroom teacher, all work handed in by a student needs to demonstrate one’s individual performance and knowledge.  The following issues will cause a student to receive a zero on any type of assignment, project, or assessment.  

• Cheating

  • Copying graded work from another student

  • Using material that is not authorized such as unauthorized reference sheets, and online or paid homework services. These are not allowed because paid online services tend to be “answer oriented” whereas in-person tutoring tends to be “procedure oriented.”

  • Sharing information in person or electronically without teacher permission

• Plagiarism

  • Using another person’s work, language, or ideas without giving formal credit.  

  • Giving your work to others so that they can use it to help complete their own tasks.

• Collusion

  • Unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing work and passing it off as independent work.

  • Students will not give or ask for questions or answers from an assessment with the intention of gaining or providing an advantage on that assessment.

Grade Categories

Please refer to the syllabus for your course.

Assessments

Throughout each week, students will read, write, and speak about the course texts through a variety of activities and will be held accountable for the content through a variety of assessments (daily short answer paragraph responses, discussion contributions, multiple choice questions, in-class skill practice activities, and culminating quarterly essays).  There will be a greater emphasis on sustained writing, editing and revising activities in the Creative Writing course.

Homework

Homework, with few exceptions, will be limited to the continued reading of the student’s book of choice and the completion of a quarterly written book review on at least one of the titles he/she chose as their independent reading book throughout the quarter.  Due dates for these book reviews and culminating essays can be found on Google Classroom.

Projects

Please refer to the syllabus for your course.