Syllabus

MISSION

Legacy Traditional School’s mission is to provide motivated students with the opportunity to achieve academic excellence in an accelerated, back- to-basics, safe learning environment taught by caring, knowledgeable, and highly effective educators in cooperation with supportive, involved parents. 

PHILOSOPHY

Legacy Traditional School (LTS) was founded on the principle that parents and staff shall work together as partners to provide an education that encourages students to pursue academic excellence to the best of their abilities. The back-to-basics curriculum, accelerated pace of studies, and high expectations for academic achievement, behavior, and dress require a firm commitment from every parent, student, and teacher. We at LTS also work to create a culture that fosters a love of country, building an understanding that we live in the greatest nation in the world. Our country affords opportunities, and with those opportunities comes the responsibility of citizenship. By selecting LTS, parents, students, and staff are responsible for and committed to supporting LTS programs, upholding standards, and following the rules and policies of the school.

LESSONS

Daily lessons will focus on the skills and concepts listed on curriculum tab, individually and in small groups.  Monday - Wednesday lessons are typically concept building with use of STEM notebooks as part of the engineering design process, whether taking Cornell notes or sketching robot designs for concept implementation. Thursdays are typically lab-time where students build their robots based on their sketch/design. Fridays are typically assessment days or challenge days. During challenge days, teams will be assessed using a rubric. VEX IQ kits are meant to be explored with three to five students, however, exams and engineering notebooks will be individual. 

ASSESSMENTS

Throughout the course, students will be recording ideas, testing trials, and outcomes in their engineering notebooks for grade checks.  Hands-on assessments will occur when students build specific designs. Paper assessments will occur at the end of a smaller unit (levers, pulleys, pendulum; simple machines; etc).  A final exam will occur at the end of the semester.  

GRADING

50%:   Assessments (Quizzes & Project challenges)  

30%:   Classwork (Daily exercises/STEM notebook) 

20%:   Teamwork/Participation/Collaboration/Behavior  

GRADING SCALE

Legacy Traditional School utilizes the following grading scale: 

• A:   90 – 100%  

• B:   80 – 89.9%  

• C:   70 – 79.9%  

• D:   60 – 69.9%   

• F:     0  – 59.9%  

HOMEWORK POLICY

School policy mandates that students can expect to have at least 15+ minutes of homework in all classes Monday – Thursday. For Robotics, we do not have regular homework assignments, as most work will be completed in class.  However, there will be homework assigned as needed. Students will learn new terms associated with each unit taught, and they are expected to study and know the terms for daily use in class, on quizzes, and on tests. On occasion, there will be homework assigned in order to complete assignments and projects.  

Please check both our google classroom and website to stay up-to-date on assignments, projects, and due dates. 

Codes for the google classroom: (see emails on how to log in)

JH1 (Period 1): m3m8me

JH2 (Period 2): j7o51j5

ABSENT AND LATE WORK

Per school policy, it is required that all assignments be completed.  All students are provided one week to make up missed assignments, not including long-term assignments.  Work not completed by the assigned time is considered late; however, administrators use their discretion to determine guidelines in acceptance of late assignments due to extreme circumstances. 

Assignments will be due at the beginning of the class period on the deadline date. Thereafter, a 0% shall be given. 

Make up tests and quizzes shall be completed by the next tutoring date.  Thereafter, a 0% shall be given. 50% of the corrected items will be added to the existing grade for tests made-up.

Classroom Expectations:

• Be Ready– Come to class on time with completed homework and needed materials. Be on time and ready to begin bell work by the time the bell rings. 

• Be Respectful – Everyone is a valued member of the class. Listen when others are talking. Kind and encouraging words and gestures are always appropriate.

• Be Responsible – Class time is the time to learn and focus. Be a courteous, contributing member of the class.   Be sure to turn in all assignments by the due date. Students are expected to be consistently using their time wisely.

DISCIPLINE POLICY

Please read and practice the policies in the Patriot’s Pride program.  It will be reinforced and followed in each class. 

Please be aware that there is a zero tolerance cheating policy that will result in an automatic loss of 10 PRIDE points. This is not limited to tests, copying homework is considered cheating.