Parent Information
Common Sense + Common Courtesy + Communication = A successful community
Please check Genesis with your child and take the opportunity to discuss grades and comments posted. Encourage your child to come and talk to me if they are feeling overwhelmed or unsure of progress. Students can rewrite essays within two weeks of the date they are returned after they have met with me to conference and make notations on the original. The new piece will be turned in with the old one and a new grade will replace the original. (Rewrite does not mean the students has corrected a few errors or typos.)
Evaluations
10%-Quick checks (Vocabulary, Word Work, Comprehension)
20%- Formative Assessments (quizzes, classwork, group work, journal writing...)
30%-Writing about reading (response writing/multi-genre writing)
40%- Essays (Multi-paragraph pieces, fiction, major projects)
Some assignments are graded based on a "check" system.
Check Plus Plus = 97% Check Plus= 94% Check= 88%
Check Minus- 78%
Check Minus Minus= 50% (in cases where the work was not done)