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Class and Grading Procedures · Aug 12, 04:33 PM

Room Rules

A Note from Mr. Cofer

Mr. Cofer has given teachers specific school-wide rules to enforce. Some of them include the following:

  1. You may not eat or chew gum in classrooms.
  2. You may not have electronic devices like IPods at school.
  3. Cell phones must never be visible during the school day and may only be used before and after school.

I will enforce these rules.

Your Grade

Grades are based on the number of points you earn. Each quarter, you can earn about 500 points for your assessments and projects. See the syllabus for more detail. If you earn 400 points out of 500, then your grade will be

400/500 = 80%

There will be two cumulative exams.

At the end of each semester, you will take a cumulative exam. The semester grade is a weighted average of the two quarter-grades and the semester exam. To calculate it, add each quarter grade twice and the semester exam grade once. Next, divide by five. For example, if you make an 80 in the first quarter, a 90 in the second, and a 75 on your semester exam, your grade is

(80 + 80 + 90 + 90 + 75)/5 = 83

I assign homework almost every day.

Expect homework on Monday through Friday evenings. Homework must show all work performed to support your answers.

On most days, you will copy one of your homework problems onto an assignment sheet that is available at the front of the room. During class, I will tell you which homework problem to copy. You will receive a grade from 0 to 5 points for each such assignment.

Materials

You need to bring certain items to class every day.

When you have your binder, your textbook, your calculator and any other items I ask you to bring, you are prepared for class.

Keep your notes in a loose-leaf binder.

Keep a loose-leaf binder to hold your notes, class work and homework organized by date. I will grade your notebook each quarter. It will be worth up to 100 points (between a fourth and a fifth of the grade).

Keeping Up With Assignments

Ask your classmates for assignments missed.

  1. Make classmates your first resource for missed notes and assignments after an absence.
  2. Check for assignments at Statbag
  3. If you need to ask me, find me during a planning period, before school or after school.

You are responsible for completing homework assignments when you miss class.

When you are absent on the day homework is due, the work is due on the day you return, unless you have made prior arrangements with me.

You are responsible for taking tests on time.

You must take tests on the day they are given. It does not matter whether you were absent on the days before a test – you still must take that test if you are here when I give it. I will let you retake the test if, because your absence, you could not have reasonably prepared.

If you are absent on the day a test is given, you have one week from the day you return to make up the test, unless school district policy gives you extra time – it usually doesn’t. Unless you and I make special arrangements, you may only begin make-up and retaken work between 3:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.