A Note about Deadlines:
You know all your deadlines far in advance, both deadlines for major projects and due dates for reading assignements and other short term work. Therefore, we exepect you to meet those deadlines and due dates, even if you've been absent.
By not meeting a due date or deadline, you do two things.
1) You let down your classmates, group members, or partner, who were expecting you to have fullfilled your responsibility and completed your work. In class, we'll be building on the work you did as homework or on the project you presented and now your classmates don't have that information. Refer to the Homework Philosophy.
2) You set yourself up for further struggle. Each assignment or activity, each skill, each unit builds on the last.to help you learn, like a staircase. By skipping a stair, you make it harder to climb the staircase; you have to take larger steps that take more effort. When you miss a deadline or due date, you miss the learning that happened on that stair. Your teachers can't give you feedback on your work, you end up jumping all over the staircase in a way that dosen't make sense and is way more work in the long run, and, ultimately, you end up learning a lot more slowly than you should. Missing due dates and deadlines gets in everyone's way.
The high school library is open until 7:00 almost every night. Use it as a place to study, to work on group work, and to read. You can use a computer or access the wi-fi. You can claim a back room to yourself to create video or audio files, or just have a quiet place with no distractions to work. You're welcome to take the late bus home; it leaves at 5:45. You an eat dinner at school, in the commons, if you're working in the library at night; dinner service starts at 5:30.
You can form a study group with some class members from either section of class and work together to complete your work, quiz each other on vocabulary or concepts, or review each other's papers. Refer to the Study Group Procedures.
You can turn in work in multiple ways, including sending it to us from the contact page or sharing it with us as a Google Document. Please remember that if you don't turn work in on time, you enter reassessment.
If you have extenuating circumstances that are out of your control, please come talk to us individually before class starts. We're always more forgiving and helpful when you give us a heads up before we're collecting the homework or presenting the project. Just come talk to us. We'll figure stuff out together.
However, "I had a game," "I had to work," "I got home late," or "I was on a field trip" are not acceptable excuses. You knew about the deadline ahead of time. You're welcome to read ahead, work ahead, and ask for materials ahead. Plan ahead. Get your stuff done on time.
By not meeting a due date or deadline, you do two things.
1) You let down your classmates, group members, or partner, who were expecting you to have fullfilled your responsibility and completed your work. In class, we'll be building on the work you did as homework or on the project you presented and now your classmates don't have that information. Refer to the Homework Philosophy.
2) You set yourself up for further struggle. Each assignment or activity, each skill, each unit builds on the last.to help you learn, like a staircase. By skipping a stair, you make it harder to climb the staircase; you have to take larger steps that take more effort. When you miss a deadline or due date, you miss the learning that happened on that stair. Your teachers can't give you feedback on your work, you end up jumping all over the staircase in a way that dosen't make sense and is way more work in the long run, and, ultimately, you end up learning a lot more slowly than you should. Missing due dates and deadlines gets in everyone's way.
The high school library is open until 7:00 almost every night. Use it as a place to study, to work on group work, and to read. You can use a computer or access the wi-fi. You can claim a back room to yourself to create video or audio files, or just have a quiet place with no distractions to work. You're welcome to take the late bus home; it leaves at 5:45. You an eat dinner at school, in the commons, if you're working in the library at night; dinner service starts at 5:30.
You can form a study group with some class members from either section of class and work together to complete your work, quiz each other on vocabulary or concepts, or review each other's papers. Refer to the Study Group Procedures.
You can turn in work in multiple ways, including sending it to us from the contact page or sharing it with us as a Google Document. Please remember that if you don't turn work in on time, you enter reassessment.
If you have extenuating circumstances that are out of your control, please come talk to us individually before class starts. We're always more forgiving and helpful when you give us a heads up before we're collecting the homework or presenting the project. Just come talk to us. We'll figure stuff out together.
However, "I had a game," "I had to work," "I got home late," or "I was on a field trip" are not acceptable excuses. You knew about the deadline ahead of time. You're welcome to read ahead, work ahead, and ask for materials ahead. Plan ahead. Get your stuff done on time.
