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This year we will be studying ancient world history.
Early Humankind including the neolithic revolution
Early civilizations.
Egypt
China
Greece
Rome
World Religions
Middle Ages
Students should come to class each day with:
Folder
Sharpened Pencils and erasers/ pens
Agenda Book
Chromebook
Earbuds
Homework will be assigned regularly Monday through Thursday. Homework will occasionally be assigned on Fridays as well.
Students will always be given time to copy their homework in class but I will also try to have the homework on the classroom calendar that can be found on the white team and this website.
Late homework will result in substantial credit being lost therefore it is important that students complete and bring/turn in their homework to class on the day it is due. Once assignments have been gone over in class they can not be made up for partial credit.
All grades can be accessed through the parent portal. Grades will not be posted until all classes are able to have the assignment returned to them. Please wait for the assignment to be returned before asking about a grade seen on the portal.
The final quarter grade is comprised of
80% tests, quizzes, projects and graded classwork
20% homework
If you receive a weekly Google Classroom report it is very important that you know the following information: I assign more work then we can do for each section. That way students who want to do more or need to practice a skill have material available. If a document does not have a due date assigned to it, it is either extra or something that will be completed in class together. Therefore, even if classroom says these documents are missing as long as they do not have a due date or specific instructions attached to it, you should not require your child to complete every document that I assign.
We will be starting our first unit; Early Man on Monday. We will have a quiz on Early Man sometime early the following week.
Extra help will be given most days at the beginning of sixth period. I am available most days but if a student asks me beforehand we can make sure that extra help is available.
Our first quiz on the second half of Greece (Greece 5-1) will be held on Tuesday February 10. A combination of snow days and the students who are involved in the play missing 2 more days will push back our quiz on Greece lesson 5-2 until Tuesday March 3. I am then hoping to have the quiz for Greece 5-3 on Tuesday March 10 with the final test on Greece being that Thursday 3/12.. Friday we have a school event which precludes giving the test on 3/13.
The likely snow day on Monday is complicating the end of quarter unit test. As we will likely be off on Monday the test would then be moved to Wednesday. I am not sure I can turn the test around fast enough to count for the second quarter but I will try.
I dislike having only 1 major grade per quarter as it makes that one day be too important. I usually do our Greek test part I as the second test for the second quarter. We are a bit behind this year so I have worked out the following schedule. Our quiz on Greece 4-2 will be on Thursday 1/15. Our Quiz on Greece 4-4 will be on Friday 1/23. While this is the official last day of the quarter I am going to try to do a quick turnaround and count our end of unit 1 Greece test on Tuesday 1/27 towards the second quarter.
Our first quiz on Greece 4-1 will be held on Thursday 1/8.
I pushed the test back one day as the periods are so short on a 2 hour delay day that I wanted to give them so extra class time to help them prepare for their first unit test.
Our first quiz on China will be on Friday 11/21. Our second quiz on lesson 7-2 will be held on Friday December 5. Our final quiz on China lesson 7-3 will be on Friday December 12. With our unit test on Wednesday December 17. The review sheet will be given out on Friday December 12 along with the digital copy in classroom.
Instead of a test we are doing an Egyptian scrapbook as our culminating activity for Ancient Egypt. The project was introduced on 10/29 and all material can be found in Classroom. Students will be given time in class through Monday 11/10. The final day the project can be turned in without penalty is 11/12.
Our third and final quiz on Egyp section 2-3 will be on Tuesday 10/28. The quiz will consist of multiple choice, matching and short answer written responses.
Our second quiz on Egypt section 2-2 will be held on Thursday 10/16. The quiz will consist of matching and multiple choice.
Our first quiz on Egypt section 2-1 will now be held on Tuesday 10/7. The quiz will consist of matching and multiple choice.
Our first social studies quiz will be on Thursday 9/18. It will cover Early Man and CREPS. The quiz will consist of matching and multiple choice questions.