The class is divided into two week segments. At the end of each segment the students will turn in their notebook and take a short quiz. Students will also take major unit tests three times a semester, and will turn in occasional projects outside of the regular notebook.
Notebooks are the key to staying organized. The first page in the students’ notebooks will their current assignment sheet. On it they will list
the work that they are doing during each two week period and the goals
for those weeks. Everyday when they come to class they will see on the board, new assignment titles to add and a warm-up. They get stamps for completing the warm-up on time. On Monday the warm-up is to copy the new goals. Thursday nights before the quiz are a
good time to check with students to make sure their notebooks are
complete and that they are confident about the material that will be on
the quiz.
On the Monday after a quiz, I will return the notebooks and quizzes and post the grades on the wall using a code for their names. They should be able to show you their notebook and quiz or test scores. They may retake the quiz or test if they did not do well, and recover half of the points that they missed. Late notebooks are only accepted the next day and penalized 20 points.
