Algebra I part II - Study sessions will be Thursdays 8:20 am - 8:50 am and 3:35 pm - 4:00 pm
Jefferson Forest High School
Course Syllabus for Algebra II/Trig
Mrs. Clark, 2011-2012
Email: bclark@bedford.k12.va.us
Webpage: http://jeffersonforesthighschool.bedford.va.k12us.com/bclark
Hello everyone! My goal is for each of you to be successful academically and personally. The following policies and procedures will help you do your best in the class.
In this course we will study:
A review of Algebra II and we will use the Mathematical Concepts textbooks to cover all the SOLs of Trigonometry.
Grading Policy:
Grades: A= 92.5 – 100
B= 84.5 – 92
C= 76.5 – 84
D= 69.5 – 76
F= Below 69.5
· No single assignment shall count for more than 25% of your final grade.
· At the time interim reports are sent out, there may not be enough grades to distribute the percentages according to county policy. By the end of the grading period, all grades will reflect county grading policy.
Homework: Homework will be assigned almost daily. Every homework assignment will be worth 4 points. Every student begins each 9 weeks with a 100. If you miss one HW assignment it would be dropped to a 96; if you missed two it would be a 92 and so on. Almost all HW assignments will be graded for completion. HW assignments will be posted during class and online and will be due the following day unless stated otherwise. In the case of an absence, it is your responsibility to look on the board, check with a classmate, or look on the webpage for missed assignments. Homework will be worth 10% of your 9 weeks grade.
Classwork and Class Participation: Algebra is the foundation of all higher math so it is crucial that we try our best to understand it. Meaning that in class, we participate in the activity we are doing, we ask questions if we don’t understand or are curious about something, and we actively participate in class discussions. Classwork will consist of worksheets and other in-class assignments that are designed as a review of a previously taught lesson. Unless noted, you will be able to use all resources – book, notes, and homework. These assignments will generally need to be completed before the period ends. This will be weighted as 10% of your 9 weeks grade.
Warm-ups: At the beginning of each class period, unless we have a quiz or test, we will start with a warm-up activity which will consist of problems for you to solve. You will be given time to try to solve these problems and then we will show the entire class the correct solutions. You are to complete these and only these in your spiral notebook. It is required that you complete your warm-up daily and date them in your notebook and an individual warm-up assignment may be collected at any time during a class period in which I will collect your spiral notebook. If a warm-up assignment were collected it would be counted as 20% of your grade. (Same as a quiz grade).
Quizzes: We will generally have one quiz a week. We will always review before each quiz. They will generally cover anywhere from 1 to 3 sections in the book. These will be weighted as 20% of your grade.
Tests: Tests will be given at the completion of every chapter. The day before a test will always be a review day and a study guide will be provided at least 2 days before a test is given. Tests will be weighted as 40%.
Notebooks:
Each student should keep a notebook for this class and it should have 4 sections:
Notes section
Classwork section
Homework section
Test/Quiz section
Each item in the notebook should be dated and in order by date. Periodically throughout the year, there may be a notebook check on items that should be in your notebook which will count as a quiz grade.
Expectations:
YOU are expected to:
- Come prepared for class each day
- Participate in class each day
- Do your HW when assigned
- Work together cooperatively
- Formulate and ask questions
- Expect some difficulty
- Have a little fun
Mrs. CLARK is expected to:
- Come prepared to teach each day
- Help students learn the concepts
- Be available outside of class for questions
- Give advice when asked
- Give timely feedback
- Be stumped by a few questions
- Have a little fun
Rights:
YOU have the right to:
- Be treated with respect by everyone in class
- Work in a learning environment
- Professional instruction from Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Skelly
Mrs. CLARK has the right to:
- be treated with respect by all their students
- teach in a learning environment
- enforce all school and classroom rules
- expect the most from their students
Basic Classroom Rules – Making STARS out of all of us!
- School Policy: All school policies will be enforced
- Talking: Students speak “one-at-a-time”, by raising their hand and never while another has “the floor”
- Attendance: both physical and mental on a regular basis and on time
- Respect: for yourself, others (especially Mrs. Clark), and the learning materials
- Stay Focused and Positive: Never say “I can’t”, Always say “I’ll try”
Daily Routine:
- Find seat, Get out homework, Get out notecard: the minute the bell rings
- Warm-up: for everyone to work on as soon as you arrive to class, while you work on this any homework will be checked or collected.
- Solution to warm-up: it will be discussed and possibly turned in
- Homework Check: correct answers to homework will be given and questions answered
- Daily Lesson: notes, investigations, and discussions
- Time to practice or review: you will be given class work to complete or time to work on the homework assignment
- Class Ends: when the bell rings and you are dismissed…no sooner and definitely no later!
Note these special items:
- Hall passes have to be earned and can only be given out when the daily lesson has been completed
- Please come to class prepared to concentrate on math!
- Take care of “business” between classes
- Tardiness will not be tolerated. PERIOD.
- We start class when the bell rings. No exceptions. Please arrive early and get ready to work.
- If you happen to arrive late, without an excuse here are your consequences:
Unexcused Tardiness (per 9 weeks):
1st and 2nd-warnings/freebies
3rd, 4th, and 5th-after school detention
6th and more-referral
- Attendance and Make-Up Work:
- In a math class, attendance and participation is essential for anyone to comprehend the material being taught and to achieve not only their goals but my goals for each student to perform well.
- Notes and assignments are given every day and are up to the student to get their makeup work and any missed notes from another student, the webpage, or looking at the board
- Any assignment given before an absence, are due as scheduled. If a student is absent on the due date, the assignment must be turned in the day that the student returns to school.
- All quizzes and tests that are missed due to absence will generally be given after school on the day the student returns to class or before school the following day.
- Extra Help: There will be extra help available weekly. Usually Friday mornings before school. Do not wait until the day before a test or the end of the grading period to ask for help.
- Materials you will need:
Materials needed for the first day/week:
- Box of tissues
- Bag of individually wrapped candy
Materials needed on a daily basis:
- Notebook Paper
- One 3-ring binder
- 3 subject dividers with tabs for 3-ring binder
- Spiral notebook (for daily warm-ups)
- Pencils/Erasers
- Graph Paper
- Calculator – TI-83 will be the one we will use in class. We only have a couple of these and will loan them out each day on a first come, first served basis. It is highly recommended that you consider purchasing one of your own.
- AAA batteries
- Quieting Procedure
- If students are getting too loud or I simply need your attention for a moment I will raise my hand
- Once you see my hand raised:
- Stop talking
- Turn and face me
- Raise your hand until everyone is facing me with their hand raised.
- Listen for instruction.
- Stamp Notecards: Each student will have a daily notecard that they will have out each day. If you have followed all the rules that day and have participated in class you will receive a stamp from me at the end of the day. Five stamps get you a hall pass, eight get you a homework exemption, ten gets you extra credit on a quiz and fifteen is extra credit on a test. Once you use them you lose them.
When you have read this, please bring it home and review it with a parent or guardian. After he/she has carefully reviewed this document, have it signed and return it by Friday, August 26, 2011.
Please feel free to email us: bclark@bedford.k12.va.us and the class webpage is at http://jeffersonforesthighschool.bedford.va.k12us.com/bclark
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Jefferson Forest High School
Course Syllabus for Algebra I pt. II
Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Skelly, 2011-2012
Email: bclark@bedford.k12.va.us, cskelly@bedford.k12.va.us
Webpage: http://jeffersonforesthighschool.bedford.va.k12us.com/bclark
Hello everyone! My goal is for each of you to be successful academically and personally. The following policies and procedures will help you do your best in the class.
In this course we will study:
all the SOLs of Algebra 1 plus several other topics
Grading Policy:
Grades: A= 92.5 – 100
B= 84.5 – 92
C= 76.5 – 84
D= 69.5 – 76
F= Below 69.5
· No single assignment shall count for more than 25% of your final grade.
· At the time interim reports are sent out, there may not be enough grades to distribute the percentages according to county policy. By the end of the grading period, all grades will reflect county grading policy.
Homework: Homework will be assigned almost daily. Every homework assignment will be worth 4 points. Every student begins each 9 weeks with a 100. If you miss one HW assignment it would be dropped to a 96; if you missed two it would be a 92 and so on. Almost all HW assignments will be graded for completion. HW assignments will be posted during class and online and will be due the following day unless stated otherwise. In the case of an absence, it is your responsibility to look on the board, check with a classmate, or look on the webpage for missed assignments. Homework will be worth 10% of your 9 weeks grade.
Classwork and Class Participation: Algebra is the foundation of all higher math so it is crucial that we try our best to understand it. Meaning that in class, we participate in the activity we are doing, we ask questions if we don’t understand or are curious about something, and we actively participate in class discussions. Classwork will consist of worksheets and other in-class assignments that are designed as a review of a previously taught lesson. Unless noted, you will be able to use all resources – book, notes, and homework. These assignments will generally need to be completed before the period ends. This will be weighted as 10% of your 9 weeks grade.
Warm-ups: At the beginning of each class period, unless we have a quiz or test, we will start with a warm-up activity which will consist of problems for you to solve. You will be given time to try to solve these problems and then we will show the entire class the correct solutions. You are to complete these and only these in your spiral notebook. It is required that you complete your warm-up daily and date them in your notebook and an individual warm-up assignment may be collected at any time during a class period in which I will collect your spiral notebook. If a warm-up assignment were collected it would be counted as 20% of your grade. (Same as a quiz grade).
Quizzes: We will generally have one quiz a week. We will always review before each quiz. They will generally cover anywhere from 1 to 3 sections in the book. These will be weighted as 20% of your grade.
Tests: Tests will be given at the completion of every chapter. The day before a test will always be a review day and a study guide will be provided at least 2 days before a test is given. Tests will be weighted as 40%.
Notebooks:
Each student should keep a notebook for this class and it should have 4 sections:
Notes section
Classwork section
Homework section
Test/Quiz section
Each item in the notebook should be dated and in order by date. Periodically throughout the year, there may be a notebook check on items that should be in your notebook which will count as a quiz grade.
Expectations:
YOU are expected to:
- Come prepared for class each day
- Participate in class each day
- Do your HW when assigned
- Work together cooperatively
- Formulate and ask questions
- Expect some difficulty
- Have a little fun
Mrs. CLARK and Mrs. Skelly are expected to:
- Come prepared to teach each day
- Help students learn the concepts
- Be available outside of class for questions
- Give advice when asked
- Give timely feedback
- Be stumped by a few questions
- Have a little fun
Rights:
YOU have the right to:
- Be treated with respect by everyone in class
- Work in a learning environment
- Professional instruction from Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Skelly
Mrs. CLARK and Mrs. Skelly have the right to:
- be treated with respect by all their students
- teach in a learning environment
- enforce all school and classroom rules
- expect the most from their students
Basic Classroom Rules – Making STARS out of all of us!
- School Policy: All school policies will be enforced
- Talking: Students speak “one-at-a-time”, by raising their hand and never while another has “the floor”
- Attendance: both physical and mental on a regular basis and on time
- Respect: for yourself, others (especially Mrs. Clark), and the learning materials
- Stay Focused and Positive: Never say “I can’t”, Always say “I’ll try”
Daily Routine:
- Find seat, Get out homework, Get out notecard: the minute the bell rings
- Warm-up: for everyone to work on as soon as you arrive to class, while you work on this any homework will be checked or collected.
- Solution to warm-up: it will be discussed and possibly turned in
- Homework Check: correct answers to homework will be given and questions answered
- Daily Lesson: notes, investigations, and discussions
- Time to practice or review: you will be given class work to complete or time to work on the homework assignment
- Class Ends: when the bell rings and you are dismissed…no sooner and definitely no later!
Note these special items:
- Hall passes have to be earned and can only be given out when the daily lesson has been completed
- Please come to class prepared to concentrate on math!
- Take care of “business” between classes
- Tardiness will not be tolerated. PERIOD.
- We start class when the bell rings. No exceptions. Please arrive early and get ready to work.
- If you happen to arrive late, without an excuse here are your consequences:
Unexcused Tardiness (per 9 weeks):
1st and 2nd-warnings/freebies
3rd, 4th, and 5th-after school detention
6th and more-referral
- Attendance and Make-Up Work:
- In a math class, attendance and participation is essential for anyone to comprehend the material being taught and to achieve not only their goals but my goals for each student to perform well.
- Notes and assignments are given every day and are up to the student to get their makeup work and any missed notes from another student, the webpage, or looking at the board
- Any assignment given before an absence, are due as scheduled. If a student is absent on the due date, the assignment must be turned in the day that the student returns to school.
- All quizzes and tests that are missed due to absence will generally be given after school on the day the student returns to class or before school the following day.
- Extra Help: There will be extra help available weekly. Usually Friday mornings before school. Do not wait until the day before a test or the end of the grading period to ask for help.
- Materials you will need:
Materials needed for the first day/week:
- Box of tissues
- Bag of individually wrapped candy
Materials needed on a daily basis:
- Notebook Paper
- One 3-ring binder
- 3 subject dividers with tabs for 3-ring binder
- Spiral notebook (for daily warm-ups)
- Pencils/Erasers
- Graph Paper
- Calculator – TI-83 will be the one we will use in class. We only have a couple of these and will loan them out each day on a first come, first served basis. It is highly recommended that you consider purchasing one of your own.
- AAA batteries
- Quieting Procedure
- If students are getting too loud or I simply need your attention for a moment I will raise my hand
- Once you see my hand raised:
- Stop talking
- Turn and face me
- Raise your hand until everyone is facing me with their hand raised.
- Listen for instruction.
- Stamp Notecards: Each student will have a daily notecard that they will have out each day. If you have followed all the rules that day and have participated in class you will receive a stamp from me at the end of the day. Five stamps get you a hall pass, eight get you a homework exemption, ten gets you extra credit on a quiz and fifteen is extra credit on a test. Once you use them you lose them.
When you have read this, please bring it home and review it with a parent or guardian. After he/she has carefully reviewed this document, have it signed and return it by Friday, August 26, 2011.
Please feel free to email us: bclark@bedford.k12.va.us, cskelly@bedford.k12.va.us and the class webpage is at http://jeffersonforesthighschool.bedford.va.k12us.com/bclark
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