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HOW
DO I EARN MY GRADE and how do I find out what my grade is?
Grade printouts: Every three weeks on Mondays
students need to get a grade printout (these will be available initial as
printouts from Mrs. CB then online at a secure website requiring a student
password. Students will be able to see ONLY their grade.)
Parents need to review, sign and return the grade printout.
Dates
for grade printouts being sent home are posted on the left had side of my
Language Arts and U.S. History Webpages.
Students,
you have a say in your grade!
Self-assessment is a big part of your learning and your grade.
We will create rubrics together which clearly define an
assignment’s criteria. You
will be asked to self-assess (evaluate) nearly all of your own work using
these rubrics.
Please keep all your work from the semester (you can store it at home)
so if we find a clerical error we can easily correct it. I want your grade
to be fair and accurate as much as you do.
Is
there any extra credit?
The
only extra credit comes from bonus questions on tests, unused late
passes, and extra
tickets. You may turn in up to two extra Excellent Learning Habits
Tickets each turn in period (every five weeks.) Typically these
extra points on texts, unused late passes, and extra tickets can cause
a 5-6% percent increase in a student's grade.
Does
Mrs. Clark-Burnell round up?
Nope.
Your grade already has the 5-6% cushion of extra tickets and bonus questions
on tests, thus I never round grades up.
U.S.
HISTORY GRADE BREAK DOWN
|
Student Work
|
Description
|
% of Grade
|
- Homework
and class work
|
|
50
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- Tests/ quizzes,
|
end of unit tests and small pop quizzes
|
40
|
- Excellent
Learning Habits Tickets
|
Writing homework down immediately upon entering class,
cooperating in teams, asking good thinking questions, researching a
question or issue and sharing it with the class, and contributing to
class
grade printouts
|
10
|
LANGUAGE
ARTS GRADE BREAK DOWN
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State Standards
|
Student
Work to Show Mastery
|
% of Grade
|
|
Reading
|
|
30
|
|
Writing
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d.
Writing
strategies: organization,
research, revision
e.
Fiction
writing: fictional
or autobiographic narratives
f.
Expository
Writing: response
to literature, research reports, persuasive essays, and summaries
|
30
|
|
Conventions
|
Sentence
structure, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling
|
20
|
|
Listening & Speaking
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g.
Listening
comprehension: questioning, identifying bias, analysis of
persuasive techniques
h.
Speaking
techniques: organization
and delivery
i.
Listening
comprehension—media: evaluate journalistic and advertising
techniques
|
10
|
|
Excellent Learning Habits
|
Writing homework down
immediately upon entering class, cooperating in teams, asking good
thinking questions, and researching a question or issue and sharing
it with the class
|
10
|
|
|
|
100%
|
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