Meet Your Geometry School Motto 2016-2017 Teacher Longhorns are respectful, responsible, and caring; at home, at Welcome Elisabeth McWhorter school, and in the To Geometry pre AP community. Striving for Excellence! MAP 6 Math Nolan Ryan Longhorns R.O.C.K!!  I am happily married and have a daughter Junior High who is a senior at Manvel High School and a step son in Kindergarten. School  I Love MATH! School Information

 12th year teaching; 2 years at the high Principal: Dr. Angela Portis-woodson school level, 8 years at Westbrook Interme- Assistant Principals: Donielle Walters, diate teaching Geometry to gifted students, and this is my 2nd year at Nolan Ryan Rodney Mcfarland, Brandy Johnson working with MAP students Nolan Ryan Junior high Tutorials 11500 Shadow Creek Parkway Pearland, TX 77584

Students are encouraged to attend tutorials Longhorn’s Rock Phone– 281-245-3210 Fax– 281-3245-3221 whenever necessary. During tutorials, a stu- dent may get help on a topic he/she does not R– Respect Everyone understand, or missed due to an absence or I prefer to be contacted by email. school activity. Students may also get help to O– Own Outstanding Behavior correct mistakes made on tests or quizzes. My [email protected] tutorial time for Geometry is: C– Cooperate Continuously Room B108 Monday - 4:20PM-5:30PM Phone #: 218-245-3210 K– Keep Positive EXT. 6127 (Direct Line)

Conference 2:21 pm - 3:11 pm By Appointment Calendar Grading Scale The calendar contains topics that will be taught Important Website and A = 90-100 B = 80-89 C = 75-79 each day, homework assignments, review Textbook Information dates and major test dates. Students will be D = 70-74 F = Below 70 Online book, practice quizzes, tests, tutorial given a new calendar at the beginning of each Grading Policy three-week period. Please understand that the videos, etc. This course is for high school credit and calendar is subject to change due to interrup- Textbooks will be available for check out will count towards your high school GPA. tions to the school day and the learning needs (limited supply) and each student will receive of the students. Test/Projects—55% online logins. I will let you know when text- books are available and when the login infor- Homework Daily—45% mation has been entered at the district level. There will be homework almost every night in- Some daily grades will carry double weights Hopefully everything will be completed in 2 cluding test days. Homework is due the next depending on the time required for the assign- weeks. day unless otherwise stated on the calendar. If ment and or if it is a mini-assessment/quiz. a student has trouble with an assignment, Remind Retesting he/she will need to make arrangements to Please sign up for my updates and important attend tutorials or use the online tutorial See the Pre-AP contract. info using Remind. sessions. The expectation is that a student Supplies will have homework completed. The class To sign up: moves at a fast pace and not attempting a  Red checking pens and plenty of pencils.  Take out your phone homework assignment is detrimental to a stu-  Composition Book  Text @nrjhgeo to 81010 dent’s success. I can work with mistakes to help students understand, but lack of effort is  Graph paper (Some composition books and  It will prompt you on how to receive my re- unacceptable. spirals come with graph paper in it) minders. Attendance  We have a class set of TI Inspire Calcula- Schoology tors to use in class (You do NOT need to Attendance is a NECESSITY! According to the  Go to www.schoology.com purchase one). high school attendance policy, if a student  Use the provided class access code. misses more than 9 class periods of Geometry,  Quality compass for home use with tighten- they will lose credit. Missing even one day can ing screw  Your parent can set up their own account if put a student behind. Please encourage your Integrated Technology Classroom they wish. child to be in class every day on time. I would  Complete the google form with parent con- also truly appreciate it if you would schedule all The use of technology resources in classroom practices. I will use Schoology as my class- tact information and the schoology login doctor/dentist appointments before or after information you just created. school, NOT during instructional time. room website to encourage this integration. Your child may be assigned videos of instruc-  Visit the website frequently for classroom

tion to watch at home while filling in notes. information, assignments, videos and other Please visit the school handbook, school They may be asked to complete exit tickets, resources. and district webpages and my schoology survey questions or quizzes through that web- page for information not listed in this bro- site. Students will use technology within class chure. to explore concepts and demonstrate mastery.