Hey all! This week is all about finishing the year up and looking forward to the next. You will start the week with your last daily grade assignment on the Incan civilization. This assignment needs to be completed as soon as possible for grading expediency. On Tuesday, 8th graders will be walking up to the high school for a tour. The tour will last for about the length of our first period. The rest of that day will be for finishing any work left unfinished up to this point...you'll notice a trend going forward for the rest of the school year. The Biscuit's game is on Wednesday and I will on the trip, so students in my class will be breaking out and continuing to do make up work. I will give students an outline for the upcoming Checkpoint 4 that will wrap the year up on tests. Friday will also be a day of makeup work.
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Hey all! Research papers are due by 11:59pm on Monday. Any papers turned in after this date will be considered late and will incur a 10 point penalty for each day the paper is late down to a 50%. The paper is graded first by the rubric and then the points are taken off for the late fee, so a paper that has passed the last day of penalty points will start at 50%, not end there. We have an activity on the Crusades on Tuesday and I will be out for the last half of the day for official school business. We will begin notes for the Americas on Wednesday, followed by an activity on the subject for Thursday. Friday will be for the make-up work that needs to be turned in ASAP because May is short and the last day of school is now only a month away.
Hey all! This week is very important for multiple reasons. First, we will finish our notes for Medieval Europe on Monday and review for the test that we will take on Wednesday. Normally the test would be on Thursday, but the STAR test is being given that day and students will be in homeroom for much of the day followed by a modified schedule that will be made on that day. I plan to create the turn-in assignment for the paper on Wednesday, but we will dedicate the majority of our week to the research paper.
Parents, please help me press the importance of turning in the research paper. I have already had multiple students inform me that they are thinking about just not submitting a paper. This would result in a zero and would bring their grades down significantly. A zero for a test grade on this quarter would cost a student 17 points on their final grade for the quarter, which is more that a letter and a half penalty (a student with an average of 80% would drop to a 63%. A student with an average of 65% would drop to a 48%). None of them would want this, but there are many who honestly cannot afford a grade drop that low without failing the 8th grade. This would be a great time to remind parents that summer school is back to being a paid program now. The cost is $250 per course failed...may the odds be ever in your favor. Hey all, welcome to another week of ACAP testing. We will be testing for ELA on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday, we will get back to notes for Chapter 15. On Thursday, you will work on an assignment for Feudalism. On Friday, you will, or should be, writing your research paper. We are past the time for a lot of research and you should be on to the writing phase of the paper.
Hey all! Just a few things. We will start the week off by writing the DBQ Essay (the last one of the year!). We will cover chapter 15 notes on Tuesday (The Crusades!). ACAP will take place on Wednesday and Thursday and though we do not have a schedule just yet, I would expect it to be heavily modified. I highly encourage that any time that you have in my class be used to complete your research paper/project. You are off on Friday for a teacher workday. See you tomorrow!
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