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Mrs. Laura Cortez Room #: E219 Email: [email protected] Phone: 210.397.3219 Conference Time: M/Th/F 2-2:50pm
Parents as Partners:
With you and me as partners working together, I believe that your child will learn the most and grow the best. I encourage reviewing your child’s spiral and journal each night, discussing the importance of what was learned in class each day. Please encourage your child to ask for and get help from his/her teachers. PLEASE contact me at any time with questions, concerns, or comments. I will do my best to contact you at least twice each six weeks.
Course Units:
1. American Identity/Principle of the Constitution
2. Colonization: Europe and The New World
3. American Revolution
4. Constitution: Power of the People
5. The Early Republic: The First 50 Years
6. Expansion, Industry, and Change
7. The Civil War and Reconstruction
Six Weeks Grading Percentages:
Daily Work, Quizzes, and Homework 50%
Test and Projects 50%
Progress reports are sent home three weeks prior to Report Cards. Grades are posted on a regular basis, and can be checked through the Parent Connect link on the NISD website.
History Journal:
You will have a History Journal (composition book) that you will use EVERYDAY in class. Each of these will be graded at different time throughout the year.
Your History Journal is the record of your progress as a Historian. In this journal you will write, create, and analyze just like a Historian would. With all the information you will be given in class, the best way to learn it is to do something with it.
***PreAP Students: YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING YOUR HISTORY JOURNAL TO CLASS EVERYDAY.***
Materials:
o Composition book – COLLEGE RULED!!!
o Colored pencils, markers, pens, pencils
Classroom Expectation:
I have high expectations for all my students and will help each and every one of them in meeting those expectations. In class I will show students procedures for getting things done in class and model type of behavior I desire to see in every student. Simply stated, if your child pushes him/herself to meets the expectations in my class, and cooperates with all that goes on in class, he/she will have a successful learning experience this year.
With you and me as partners working together, I believe that your child will learn the most and grow the best. I encourage reviewing your child’s spiral and journal each night, discussing the importance of what was learned in class each day. Please encourage your child to ask for and get help from his/her teachers. PLEASE contact me at any time with questions, concerns, or comments. I will do my best to contact you at least twice each six weeks.
Course Units:
1. American Identity/Principle of the Constitution
2. Colonization: Europe and The New World
3. American Revolution
4. Constitution: Power of the People
5. The Early Republic: The First 50 Years
6. Expansion, Industry, and Change
7. The Civil War and Reconstruction
Six Weeks Grading Percentages:
Daily Work, Quizzes, and Homework 50%
Test and Projects 50%
Progress reports are sent home three weeks prior to Report Cards. Grades are posted on a regular basis, and can be checked through the Parent Connect link on the NISD website.
History Journal:
You will have a History Journal (composition book) that you will use EVERYDAY in class. Each of these will be graded at different time throughout the year.
Your History Journal is the record of your progress as a Historian. In this journal you will write, create, and analyze just like a Historian would. With all the information you will be given in class, the best way to learn it is to do something with it.
***PreAP Students: YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING YOUR HISTORY JOURNAL TO CLASS EVERYDAY.***
Materials:
o Composition book – COLLEGE RULED!!!
o Colored pencils, markers, pens, pencils
Classroom Expectation:
I have high expectations for all my students and will help each and every one of them in meeting those expectations. In class I will show students procedures for getting things done in class and model type of behavior I desire to see in every student. Simply stated, if your child pushes him/herself to meets the expectations in my class, and cooperates with all that goes on in class, he/she will have a successful learning experience this year.
Homework Expectation:
For my class homework is likely to be given 1-2 times a week. You should write down all homework assignments in the calendar I provide each six weeks. You are responsible for completing the homework by the next school day or by the set due date.
Consequences for Inappropriate Behavior: Inappropriate behavior will be followed with the discipline steps listed below:
1. Verbal warning
2. Teacher/Student Conference (with approved teacher-assigned consequence)
3. Telephone conference with parent/guardian
4. Office referral
Late, Missing, or Incomplete Assignments:
Late Homework Policy:
Homework is defined as any assignment that is given to students to do at home. Students will be given up to the Friday of the 5th week of each six weeks to turn in all late assignments. Teachers will take off a max of 10 points for a late penalty up to the assessment (test) of that objective or concept. If it is turned in after the assessment the max points students can receive on the late homework is a 70. After 4 missing homework assignments, there will be parental contact made either in the form of a phone call, a letter sent home, or an individual progress report with the missing assignments highlighted and a signature required.
Late Daily Class Work Policy:
Classwork is defined as any assignment that is given to students to do in class. Students should be completing classwork within the class period. If students are allowed to take their classwork home to finish, then it will be due the next day. Failure to do so may result in the student getting a zero for that assignment.
Retesting Policy:
Students will have 5 school days from the time the test is posted in the grade book to go to office hours for a test retake. Students may be asked to attend a reteach session before retaking an assessment. Arrangements should be made with the teacher for both the reteach and the test retake. Test retake is for those students who have received below a 70 on an assessment.
Missing assignments at the end of the six weeks grading period will be a zero in the Gradebook.
For my class homework is likely to be given 1-2 times a week. You should write down all homework assignments in the calendar I provide each six weeks. You are responsible for completing the homework by the next school day or by the set due date.
Consequences for Inappropriate Behavior: Inappropriate behavior will be followed with the discipline steps listed below:
1. Verbal warning
2. Teacher/Student Conference (with approved teacher-assigned consequence)
3. Telephone conference with parent/guardian
4. Office referral
Late, Missing, or Incomplete Assignments:
Late Homework Policy:
Homework is defined as any assignment that is given to students to do at home. Students will be given up to the Friday of the 5th week of each six weeks to turn in all late assignments. Teachers will take off a max of 10 points for a late penalty up to the assessment (test) of that objective or concept. If it is turned in after the assessment the max points students can receive on the late homework is a 70. After 4 missing homework assignments, there will be parental contact made either in the form of a phone call, a letter sent home, or an individual progress report with the missing assignments highlighted and a signature required.
Late Daily Class Work Policy:
Classwork is defined as any assignment that is given to students to do in class. Students should be completing classwork within the class period. If students are allowed to take their classwork home to finish, then it will be due the next day. Failure to do so may result in the student getting a zero for that assignment.
Retesting Policy:
Students will have 5 school days from the time the test is posted in the grade book to go to office hours for a test retake. Students may be asked to attend a reteach session before retaking an assessment. Arrangements should be made with the teacher for both the reteach and the test retake. Test retake is for those students who have received below a 70 on an assessment.
Missing assignments at the end of the six weeks grading period will be a zero in the Gradebook.