Grading Policies:

• Assignments should be turned in on time – on the due date and at the beginning of that day’s class period (not at the end of the class period or at the end of the day). After the beginning of that day’s class period, it is one day late.

• Paper assignments should be turned in to the class basket.

• Work will be accepted after the due date with a penalty of 10 points every day it is late - After five days it will no longer be accepted.

• Students who have been absent have 5 school days upon returning to school to turn in missing assignments that were given during the student’s absence. Previously assigned work should be turned in when the student returns to school. If it is not, it is considered late.

• Absent work that is printed can be found in the “While You Were Out” hanging folder located at the rear of the classroom. Digital assignments can be found on Google Classroom. They will also be marked as missing with a zero in Power-school until it is made up. Once the missing is removed, the zero will remain in the grade book until the missing assignments are graded.

• Late work and make up work will not take priority for grading – they will be graded after assignments turned in by the due date are graded. If you are aware of an absence coming up, my suggestion would be for you to get the work and complete it before leaving for paper assignments. For electronic assignments, you will have access to them on the day they are released from home.

• Unit tests will be comprehensive and contain all levels of critical thinking skills. Each test will include a combination of multiple choice, matching, true-false, and written response questions. Unit tests are major assessments.

• Retakes: There will be NO retakes given per Sneed policy, however, if the student does not do well on a TEST, they may fill out a request form on Google Classroom for correcting their test for partial credit. Corrections must be completed within five school days of the test date. The student will be responsible for requesting this. If the student does not request a correction and complete corrections within five days, the grade will remain the original grade. Corrections will be completed during zero period or during AR/CNN time during 4^th period. Requests will be considered on a case by case basis and each teacher reserves the right to refuse requests if the student does not properly utilize original test time. Cheating will not be rewarded by allowing retakes. In order to access the request form click the following link: Correction Request

• Cheating will not be tolerated in any way, shape, form, or fashion! Cheating will result in an automatic zero and office referral. Students will not be allowed to retake tests or quizzes that they have cheated on.

• Students will have the opportunity to work together and alone in creating projects each nine weeks. Projects are also major assessments.

• Classwork is due by the end of each class period. Homework is due the following day at the beginning of the class period.

• Students will have the opportunity to work together and alone in creating projects each nine weeks. Projects are also major assessments.

• Plagiarism will be treated as cheating. The definition of plagiarism is the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and attempting to pass them off as one’s own, including using someone else’s exact words in a text without a citation and citing a source in a bibliography; this is plagiarism. Copying your best friend’s homework assignment is plagiarism. Plagiarism is an automatic office referral.

• Paper assignments turned in without proper heading: First name, last name, date, class period letter, and title of assignment in the right top corner or cover page where specified- will be docked a point from the number correct of the assignment unless otherwise stated. This is not applicable to daily classwork and homework. (First name and last initial do not count, both names must be spelled out). Electronic assignments will record your email, however first and last name are still required

Course Evaluation:

This course follows the Florence District One grading policy.

● Teachers will administer a semester 1 exam (E1) at the end of Q2 which will count 10% of the grade for S1

● Teachers will administer a semester 2 exam (E2) at the end of Q4 which will count 10% of the grade for S2.

● Grades are determined as shown in table below:

***Writing assignments fall under quizzes/labs***

Formative Assignments

Daily grades, Bellwork, Practice Assignments, etc.

45% of Quarter Grade

Summative Assignments

Quizzes, Unit Tests, Performance Tasks, Major Writing Assignments, & other projects

55% of Quarter Grade

Grading Scale:

A=90-100 B=80-89 C=70-79 D=60-69 F=59 or lower

ELA Performance Task:

At the end of each unit there will be one or two performance tasks to be completed by the student. The performance task will directly relate to the unit topic. The students will be told at the beginning of each unit what the performance task is. The students will also be given the due date at this time. The Performance Task will count as a test/project.

Extra Credit:

Please do not ask or email the teacher for extra credit assignments. If a teacher chooses to offer extra credit, they will let you know in advance.

If a teacher chooses to offer an extra credit assignment, in order to get credit, all requirements must be met (i.e. assignment sheet guidelines, rubric).

In order to take part in any assigned extra credit, students must have no missing assignments.

Extra credit WILL NOT be accepted after the assigned due date.

Offering extra credit is left entirely up to discretion of the individual teacher.

Student Records:

Grades and attendance will be maintained in both the teacher’s grade book and computer. Parents are urged to keep up with their student’s progress by checking the Parent version of PowerSchool regularly. Interim progress reports will be sent home midway between grading periods, and report cards issued at the end of every nine weeks. Students should keep up with their grades via PowerSchool as well.