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WHY STUDY HISTORY?
* to understand the present and to make a better future;
* to understand the causes and effects of policies and events on people
living in a specific region or country;
* to understand that policies and events in one country influence the
policies and events in other countries.
STUDENT'S RESPONSIBILITY
1.Attention during class;
2.Take good notes;
* a single subject notebook is needed, notebooks
will be collected and graded
* the date and topic should be marked for each
day
* notebooks must be neat, complete, and free of
extraneous markings
3.Participation in class;
* Ask questions
* Express opinions
* Involvement in class discussions
* When class is involved in cooperative
learning the students must stay on task
and become involved in the assigned lesson
or activities
4.Study on a daily basis;
5.Prepare for tests;
* Review notes
* Go over homework
* Reread assignments from text and handouts
6.Complete all home assignments;
* Neatly
* Pen (if written)
* Standard size loose leaf (if written)
* Follow all rules of grammar
* Handed in on time
* Students are to do their own work
7. All school rules are to followed e.g. no gum,
shirts tucked in, etc.
8.Textbook must be brought to class each day;
9.Students absent for a test or quiz are
responsible to see me on the day they return to
schedule a time to make up the missed test or
quiz. They are to be prepared to take it on the
day they return.
10.Absent students are responsible for notes and
assignments given during absence
GRADING
Sixty per cent of the grade will come from tests,
both in school and take home and a quarterly
assessment. The remaining forty per cent will be
calculated from home assignments, class
participation, projects and group assignments.
A - Excellent 92 - 99
B - Good 85 - 92
C - Satisfactory 75 - 84
D - Below Average 70 - 74
F - Failing
.
Students MUST have a notebook and textbook for
every class period.
* Responsibility:
These are contained in the handout
* Consequences of Actions:
There are rewards or sanctions for what we do, we
must learn to accept these and we must learn to
do what is expected of us.
* Unintended consequences:
In some cases we must think of some consequences
that we have not planned on, our actions can
impact others or impact conduct of others toward
us, we must accept even these unintended
consequences even if they have a negative impact
on us.
* Time-Management skills:
We must learn to juggle several responsibilities,
jobs, school, work, parent request, friend’s
desires. In some case we must learn to
prioritize, decide which is better for us not now
but to our future.
* Thinking Skills:
a)Recall- repeat what we read or learned.
Who were the philosophes?
b)Processing- manipulate the information.
Put information in order, explain why it
happened.
c)Application- Add your own meaning. What
do you think of the Tennis Court Oath?
* Listening Skills:
This seems to be a lost art, I think it is
important in the learning process to hear
information. This will be facilitated by teacher
talk. “God gave us two ears but one mouth, so we
should listen twice as much as we talk."
* Cooperation
* Importance of an educated and active citizenry
* Creativity
* The students are required to keep a daily notebook that would include the following:
* class notes from lectures, power point presentations, overheads
or exercises student activities;
* notes given in class that set up or supplemented cooperative
learning assignments;
* notes that were taken during their cooperative learning periods;
* exercises used to review the students effort (examples of these
exercises would be concept webs, charts , writing facts to support
generalizations and explaining the effect or cause of events or actions.)
The grade will depend on the completeness and quality of the work as well as the
following of the criteria that was distributed to the students in the student responsibility
handouts at the beginning of the year.
Grading
A+ all work was completed in a superior fashion and all criteria
was followed.
A all work completed and all criteria was followed.
B all work completed.
C A more conscientious effort is needed.
D poor effort, work missing or incomplete.
F not handed in, late and poorly done, not completed.
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