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Syllabus For 2016
Syllabus For 2016
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to give students the knowledge and skills that enable them to make
healthy choices and avoid high-risk behaviors. This ten credit course is required for graduation.
A. TEXTBOOK: Prentice Hall Health
B. You are financially responsible for your textbook, so protect it with a book cover at all times.
C. Bring your textbook to class every day. No textbook will result in detention that day after class or
after school (whichever is convenient for the teacher).
D. If you choose to leave your textbook in the classroom, you are still held financially responsible for
that textbook. If it is lost, stolen or damaged, you will have to pay for it.
III.
II.
ATTENDANCE
E. Students who fail this course are most often the ones with poor attendance.
F. Please schedule doctor, dentist, etc. appointments for times before or after school.
G. Being more than 30 minutes tardy without an excuse slip from an adult will count as an invalid
absence.
H. If you are absent, you must bring an admit when you return. (Go to the Attendance Office and the
Attendance Clerk will give you an admit slip.)
V.
II.
ASSIGNMENTS/TESTS
I. Must have a HEADING that includes your first and LAST NAME, DATE, and PERIOD. An
assignment with no heading will be equal to a zero or an F.
J. Be sure to keep all returned assignments so that if there is a question about a missing assignment or
the wrong grade, you have your graded papers to compare with my gradebook. You can also use your
graded papers to help you when you take the Final Exam at the end of each semester.
VII.
GRADING POLICY
A. Assignments and tests will be graded using a 100 point scale:
95 = A (Advanced)
65 = D (Try again)
85 = B (Proficient)
59 or less = F (Try again)
75 = C (Try again)
0 = missing test/assignment
B. 80% of the final grade will be based on tests/assessments that gauge whether or not the student has
met the content standards. [These will listed on Home Access Center as Standards.]
20% of the final grade will be based on the completion of related assignments. [These will be listed
on Home Access Center as Work.]
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VIII.
MAKE-UP WORK
A. It is the students responsibility to request make-up work for days missed and/or when scores on tests
are less than proficient (80%).
B. When you are absent, you are responsible for getting the work you missed. Check your file folder
for any handouts AND stay after class to get your make-up work, ask questions, or get help.
C. All make-up work must be completed during homeroom or at a time that is convenient for both the
student and the teacher.
D. Make-up work must be done as soon as possible after returning from an absence.
E. The highest grade that can be earned on assignments once the grades for that assignment are posted is
85% (proficient).
F. No make-up work will be accepted the last 2 weeks of the quarter without prior consent from the
teacher.
IX.
X.
FORGERY:
If anyone other than your parent signs your parents name or writes comments for them, that will result in:
A. Zero points for the assignment.
B. Unsatisfactory citizenship (U) grade for the quarter.
XI.