CLASSROOM RULES and EXPECTATIONS

MR. BRIMHALL’S CLASSROOM RULES and EXPECTATIONS

1. BE PREPARED TO WORK HARD

a) Get to class on time! Be in your seat writing the class work and homework posted on the board in your planner before the late bell rings.

10/10 Rule: All students are to be in class the first 10 minutes of every class and the concluding 10 minutes of every class.

b) Be prepared for class. Bring your textbook, pen, paper, planner, and homework daily.

c) No food, no drinks (no water either), and no gum allowed in the classroom.

d) Use the bathroom before entering the classroom. (DO NOT ASK TO USE THE RESTROOM DURING CLASS INSTRUCTION).

e) TURN OFF all electronic devices and keep them concealed. No cell phones, iPods, iWatches, will be on, used, or charged in class or on campus during school hours. (All headphones must be in your backpack or pocket. Speakers will be returned the last day of school).

NOTE: If your cell phone rings, beeps, or vibrates in class, it will be confiscated and given to Mr. Betts--the assistant principal. Refusal to give cell phone to teacher/staff will result in a suspension. First Offense: Phone is taken, and your parent/guardian must come to the school on Friday and Mr. Betts will give him/her your phone. Second Offense: Detention, ONLY parents may retrieve the phone from a site administrator Third Offense: Detention Fourth Offense: Suspension

f) Upon entering the classroom, remove hats and hoods that cover your ears and remove sunglasses.

g) Also, keep all purses, bags, hats, etcetera on the ground next to your desk. The only things that should be on your desk are the textbook, paper, notebook, and pencil or pen.

h) Complete your assignments. DO YOUR BEST EVERYDAY.

2. BE RESPECTFUL OF ALL PEOPLE AT ALL TIMES

a) Raise your hand if you want to speak.

b) Follow directions. Remain in your seat throughout the entirety of the class unless instructed to do otherwise. (DO NOT WALK IN FRONT OF THE TEACHER OR SHARPEN YOUR PENCIL WHILE HE IS SPEAKING).

c) No profanity. No discriminating remarks or bullying behavior designed to hurt others.

d) Do not touch another person or his/her belongings without his/her permission.

e) Be Honest = No Cheating = No Plagiarism = Do Your Own Work CHEATING POLICY: If you are caught cheating, you will not receive an “A” in the class for the semester in which you cheated, which means: you copied another person’s work; you plagiarized 2

another person’s writing; you let another person copy your work or writing; you altered answers or grades on your own or another student’s test. 3. FOLLOW THE HAMILTON SCHOOL RULES Tardy Policy: 1. First tardy = Warning 2. Second tardy = After School Detention and parent contact by phone 3. Third tardy = After School Detention and parent contact by phone  Further tardies = added to the STOP List, Detentions, possible Suspension and/or Citation  Tardies reset at the Triad (every six weeks)

Discipline Policy: (Minor Offenses)  DAY 1 Step 1: Seat Change Step 2: Buddy Teacher and After School Detention

 DAY 2 Step 1: Seat Change Step 2: Buddy Teacher, After School Detention, One day Class Suspension, and Parent Conference.

 DAY 3 Step 1: Seat Change Step 2: Buddy Teacher, School Suspension for one day, and Parent Conference.

 DAY 4 Day 3 Steps repeat for future offenses, but number of suspension days may increase.  All detentions will be served on Monday after school from 3:11 to 4:11.  Detentions resets at the Semester

You have freedom of choice but not freedom from consequence.

GRADING POLICY:  Each assignment will be given a numerical value. For example, a student receives 9 points on an incomplete homework assignment that is worth 10 points. To find the letter grade, divide the grade you earned on the assignment (9 points) by the total number possible to earn on the homework (10 points). 9 divided by 10 equals 0.9 which is 90% and equivalent to an A-. I DO NOT WEIGHT MY GRADES.

Tests, Essays, and Quizzes = 70%--80% of points Homework and Participation = 20%--30% of points

SAMPLE GRADE BOOK ENTRIES:

Category Assignment Description Points

1. TESTS Gatsby TEST 100

2. QUIZZES Gatsby Ch. 9 QUIZ 20

3. ESSAYS Gatsby ESSAY 100

4. Homework/Classwork Gatsby Ch. 7 Questions 10 3

5. Participation Planner #1 5

 Homework is to be turned in on the due date assigned and will be accepted at the beginning of class on the day it is due for full credit. If you submit your work late, the highest grade you can earn is a “B.” However, in order to earn a “B” on a late homework assignment it must be of the highest quality and demonstrate that you have successfully mastered and understand the skill you have been asked to perform. In addition, every two weeks I will announce that any late work (homework or major assignment) must be submitted on a particular date for credit. If the work is not turned in on the date stated by the teacher, then the work will not be accepted at all.

 Planners will be checked every three weeks. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to copy the planner from another student to receive the points.

 If you are absent the day a major test, essay, writing assignment, group project, or presentation occurs or is due, you have one day to make up the assignment and receive full credit for it. Choosing not to make up the assignment the day after you return, the highest grade you will be able to earn is a “B.”

 Also, if you have been given advanced notice of the date of a test, essay, project, presentation, or homework and you are absent the day the assignment is due, you are expected to place the assignment in the teacher’s hands the day you return to school at the beginning of the class period or make arrangements to take the test on your own time.

 Additionally, if the teacher says that he will not accept a particular assignment late, it will be because advanced notice and an extended period of time has been allotted to complete the assignment. [Examples include, but are not limited to, essays, research papers, projects, and presentations.]

 Athletes need to ask for assignments before away games or being released early for home games.

No one owes you anything at all. You deserve what you earn.

11 th -12 th GRADE COMMON CORE GOALS:

 READING.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions from the text. Such texts will include a wide variety of grade level appropriate classics and contemporary literature, such as: JUNIORS--The Crucible, The Great Gatsby, and The Catcher in the Rye. Additionally, poetry, essays, and short stories written by the following authors will be read: Bradstreet, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, Whitman, Twain, Crane, London, Chopin, Hemmingway, Hughes, Eliot, Cummings, Hughes, Williams, Plath, O’Connor, Collins, Bukowski, Alexie, Krakauer, etc. SENIORS--Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, Hamlet, and Brave New World. Additionally, poetry, essays, and short stories written by the following authors will be read: Marlowe, Raleigh, Herrick, Marvell, Donne, Milton, Swift, Dante, Pope, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Tennyson, Elizabeth & Robert Browning, Arnold, Housman, Dickens, Wilde, Kipling, Lawrence, Eliot, Orwell, Thomas, Yeats , etc.

 R.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. 4

 R.3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

 R.4 Interpret word s and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.  R.5 Analyze the structure of texts including how a specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

 R.7 Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem, evaluating how each version interprets the source text (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry).

 R.9 Analyze how two or more texts from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early-twentieth century address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the author’s take.

 WRITING.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

 W.2 Write informative/explanatory essays to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis or content.

 W.3 Write narrative essays to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences

 SPEAKING & LISTENING.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partner, building on other’s ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

 SL.4 Present information, finding and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

 LANGUAGE.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

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