If you are absent on the day we take a
READING QUIZ, you must arrive 7:30 a.m. the day you return to
make up this QUIZ since it will be part of the lesson in class.
If you are absent on the day we take a
TEST, following discussion and unit activities, you will take the
make up in the Media Center on unscheduled time within three (3) days of
your return UNLESS YOU RETURN ON THE DAY OUR CLASS DOES NOT MEET.
In this case, please arrange to take the make up test during our
unscheduled time. This typically is not part of our
class lesson, but you do not want to have new work pile up on you.
The above notices obviously refer to absences
of one or two days. If you are ill for a more extended period
of time, please email me or see me the morning you return to school
and we will arrange a reasonable schedule for make up.
If you fail to have your book in class,
you will be penalized 10% down on the next graded assignment or test.
It is essential that you have texts and materials in class for
literature review and/or group work.
If you do not have your homework by the
time class meets on the day it is due you will receive a zero since
this is typically the lesson for that class. Failure to have more
extended assignments--that is, work assigned well in advance and of
greater complexity--will incur a penalty of 10% off that assignment for
each day it is not received, including off-cycle days.
If you have
an early dismissal and will miss our class, please arrange to hand me
your homework before you leave to assure credit. If you cannot
find me, give it to the Receptionist with my name on it.
To evaluate
each student's work fairly as a piece of work in itself and in
comparison to the work of other students, it is essential that all work
be done honestly by the student who submits it for a grade.
Plagiarism
means presenting the words, work, or opinions of someone else as if they
were your own--in other words, without documentation to the original
source.
A. You
commit plagiarism if you submit as if it were your own:
1. Material copied from an unpublished source such as
another person's manuscript or notes.
2. Material copied, paraphrased, or summarized from a
published source such as a book, magazine, or pamphlet.
3. A unique idea or sequence of ideas transferred from a
source to your paper without giving credit to that source.
B. You
are an accomplice in plagiarism if you do any of the following:
1. Allow your paper, in outline or finished form, to be
copied and submitted as the work of another student.
[E.g., you loan your paper to someone else]
2. Prepare a written assignment for another student and
allow it to be submitted as that student's work.
3. Keep or contribute to a file of papers with the clear intent
that these papers be copied and submitted as the work of
anyone other than the original author.
C.
SANCTIONS:
Failure to do your own work or to give credit to sources
(using MLA citation, documentation) will result in:
1. A conference with your teacher AND
2. A grade of NO CREDIT (0) on the assignment with no
option to rewrite.
3. Any subsequent incident will result in referral to
Administration.
