Homework policy: Homework is not going to be collected or graded. Homework is practice - there will be no penalty for making mistakes in practice. Answers will generally be provided to help students learn from their practice. The reward for doing a good job with study habits [including homework] is good quiz grades. Students should spend no more than 20 minutes on homework - but they should do homework nightly.

Quiz policy: Students do not earn a grade for homework. Instead they will take frequent [2-3 per week] quizzes in this class. Quizzes help keep the students accountable for practicing and help keep the teacher accountable for keeping up with what kids are learning. Students who do not pass a quiz may retake the quiz by

1) getting help on the quiz material that they have not learned

2) bringing in the old quiz when they retake - signed by the person who helped with the material

Retakes are only once per quiz - so students are encouraged to get good help before the retake. If the retake quiz has a higher score, the higher score will replace the lower score.

Test policy: Students who do not earn a passing grade on a major test are expected to do test corrections. Students may earn back half their missed points [not to exceed a 70] on test corrections [see rubric.] Students are expected and encouraged to get help from anyone on the corrections. They are always due one week from the day the test is returned.

The goal we have is for kids to learn the material before the test. If a student shows mastery on a unit test then all quizzes from that unit with a lower score than the unit test will be replaced with the higher test score.

Test corrections rubric.doc

So before every test, kids have the chance to requiz to replace a lower quiz score.
On the test if kids do better than a quiz in that unit, the quiz score may be replaced with the higher test score.
After the test, you have the chance to do corrections to bring your grade up.

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