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All BPSB, HHS, and library guidelines for student behavior will be honored.
How this class is designed
How this class is designed
This class is APAP: "As Paperless As Possible".
You will be assigned a Chromebook to use each day that will be housed in the cart. Use only your assigned Chromebook!
There will be a set of headphones to go with the Chromebook for days when listening to a video or podcast is required. use only your assigned headphones!
Grades
Assignments will be daily and count 42.5% of the final grade. These will usually be 20 points each.
Assignments = tasks
Tasks will emphasis either reading text, listening to podcasts, viewing videos, designing a product, or creating manipulative
Assessments will be weekly and count 42.5% of the final grade. These will usually be 100 points each.
Assessments = Challenges
Challenges will be nearly identical in nature to tasks, but may vary in length and question design
There will be a cumulative final exam worth 15% of the final class grade on
Wednesday, 17 Dec for the Fall term
Tuesday. 19 May for the Spring term
All task, challenge, and final designs are at the discretion of the instructor.
Grading scale
Grading scale
Standard BPSB grading scale.
100-90 = A
89-80 = B
79-70 = C
69-60 = D
59-0 = F
All grades in OnCourse that result in a decimal point will be rounded up to the next whole number. Should a curve be applied, it will be a cube root curve.
Textbook
Textbook
The official textbook for the class is 2011 Grand Central Publishing edition of Mythology. Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton. Here is a PDF version of textbook. However, since the scope of the class has been expanded to include a variety of world mythologies to support student exploration, and in an attempt to best address individual learning preferences, supplemental materials have been sourced from a range of texts, videos, and podcasts.
Supplemental Resources
Supplemental Resources
Ancient Egyptian Myths. Gods, Pharaohs, Creation, & the Afterlife
Arthurian Literature and Celtic Colonization: OpenCourseware
Beowulf
Celtic Myth & Legend
Celtic Mythology
Celtic Myths
Dictionary of Celtic Myth & Legend
Dictionary of Mythology
Epic Celtic Myths & Tales
Four Branches of the Mabinogi, The
Great Encyclopedia of Fairies, The
Greek Heroes in Popular Culture Through Time: Open University podcast
Greek Myths. From the Titans to Icarus and Odysseus
Hammer of the Gods
Myth in the Greek and Roman Worlds: OpenLearn
Mythology Unbound: An Online Textbook for Classical Mythology
Mythology and Folklore UN-Textbook
Myths and Legends Ancient Egypt
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
Myths of Babylon
Native American Myths & Legends
Norse Mythology. A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs
Norse Myths
Norse Myths. Viking Legends of Heroes and Gods
Poetic Edda, The
Project Guttenberg's Mythology Bookshelf
Signs & Symbols of the World
Tales of Ancient Egypt
Viking Folktales
World Mythology
World Mythology in Bite Sized Chunks
Daily routines
Daily routines
Put your backpacks and bags on or under the tables under the windows to the librarian's office.
Retrieve your Chromebook from the cart.
Sit at your assigned table/seat. Yes, there is a seating chart. No, you do not make or change it.
Check for the day's lesson/assignment in OnCourse Classroom.
Use the kiosk by the north door for restroom requests.
Execute the day's lesson/assignment being mindful of due dates/times. Submit in a timely fashion.
Refer questions about unaddressed issues to Coach privately.
Ignore the interruptions that will occur due to class being held in the library.
At the close of class, return and charge Chromebook/headphones.
Backpacks may be retrieved after the bell on your way out. Do not get them earlier than the bell. There is no law, rule, tradition, nor right to deciding class must end five minutes (or at any point arbitrarily decided upon by a student) before the bell.
This is not a lecture class. I will not be standing over you.
You will be required to read silently and or work independently for the majority of most class periods.
There will often be traffic in and out of the library and many interruptions. These visitors are not here to see you and are not an excuse for you to disengage with your assignment.
Technology policies
Technology policies
Do what you are supposed to be doing, when you are supposed to be doing it, the way you are supposed to be doing it.
Technology is to be used for assigned academic purposes
You will have an assigned Chromebook in the cart. Use only it.
You will have assigned headphones for when listening to audio is required. Use only your assigned ones. See #2 above. Personal earbuds/headphones are not allowed.
At close of class, put your Chromebook in its corresponding slot and plug it in. Not doing so will be disastrous.
I will monitor you remotely to observe that you are honoring rule #1. You probably won't know it until after the fact.
Cell Phones and other electronic devices
Cell Phones and other electronic devices
Cellphones are to remain turned off and stowed away during the entire school day at Haughton High School. Students who need to call home must use the phone in the main office during school hours. Earbuds, headphones, or AirPods are not allowed on campus.
If a cell phone is seen, it is to be turned into the teacher.
The teacher will then transfer the phone to the main office.
On the 1st offense, the phone is returned to the student at the end of the school day with the parent contacted.
For more details, refer to BPSB & HHS cell phone and electronic device policies
Assignment submission
Assignment submission
The vast majority of assignments will be submitted either via On Course Classroom or directly from Canva (or other platform to be named). There will not be a Google Classroom for this class. Occasionally, there may be a physical project to (physically) put in my hands, but this "should be" infrequent.
NEVER "share" assignments instead of submitting. This causes unnecessary cluttering of my inbox. Submitting a blank assignment does not count as turning it in. Both of these actions can result in that assignment not be accepted for credit after the fact. Pay attention to both the due date and time for each assignment. FYI: "due date" is not the same as "do date".
Late Work
Late Work
Follow this procedure correctly, or there is a good chance I will never know you submitted something late. First, submit it to OnCourse like normal. Then, immediately send a Gmail to russell.melton@bossierschools.org that tells me me explicitly which assignment was submitted late and why it is late. I do take points off for work submitted late.
Fall 2025 late work deadlines are Friday, 3 Oct for all work since 7 Aug and Thursday, 11 Dec for all work since 13 Oct.
Spring 2026 late work deadlines are Friday, 6 Mar for all work since 7 Jan and Thursday 14 May for all work since 16 Mar.
Restroom procedures
Restroom procedures
Don't be in the restroom during the first part of class when I am taking roll!
If I've marked you absent, and then you show up, you are tardy. There is no exception for going in prior to the tardy bell.
We use Pass (formerly e-hallpass) for class departures. There is a kiosk available to the right of the north door. You must make sure I see the request to authorize it. Not using Pass basically equals leaving class without permission. If leaving the building make sure to be wearing an office/hall pass on a lanyard.
What if you “need a drink”?
What if you “need a drink”?
There is a water fountain across from the circulation desk.
If you have your own water bottle, it should be stored with your backpack over/under the table for those. If you need a drink, go get a sip and return to your seat. Leave the bottle there. Do not bring it to the class area or around technology. You do not need a Pass to do this. These same procedures apply to if you need a bite of your snack in your bag. This does not make taking time for a buffet or lunch okay. Neither is it okay to share your snacky-stuff with your table, the class, me, or some visitor. Do not bring any of it back to the table. Don't be the reason these privileges get revoked for the class.
General Guidelines for class in the library
General Guidelines for class in the library
Yes, you may browse the library's collection and even check out books AFTER you have completed all of that day's assignments and have no missing assignments.
Do not wander around the library when you should be at your seat taking care of your business.
Never assume a visitor to the library is here to visit with you. You are in class. If someone you know shows up, they have other business here than you.
Falleth not under the impression that the last minutes in class make normal policies and procedures unenforceable.
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