REGENTS EARTH SCIENCE - CLASS EXPECTATIONS

YOUR RESPONSIBILITY:

1) Do your HW* every night and bring it to class when it is due.
    *HW always includes: having your reference tables, review book and a pencil.
2) Know when labs are due and submit them on time (pre-graded if possible).
3) If you are absent the day of a test or a lab for any reason, YOU must see me to arrange a time to make-up the missing work.

There is no "late penalty'" for anything, however labs submitted passed the due date will not be pre-graded . Any work not made up by the end of a marking period receives a grade of zero. Missed quizzes need not be made up.

GRADING

Tests (all consisting of Regents questions) - 60%
Homework - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  15%
Labs and quizzes (combined) - - - - - - - - - -20%
Preparation, attitude, and participation - - - 5%

Pre-grading of labs: (Labs must be done in pencil only)
Every student may ask me to go over any lab BEFORE THE DUE DATE. I can go over the lab question-by-question as it is done in class or pre-grade the entire lab after it's completed (usually after school between 2:39 and 3PM). When all corrections have been made I will grade the lab as 105% and collect it. The maximum possible grade for a non-pre-graded lab is A+ and few labs are that perfect. It is therefore possible for any student to get a guaranteed 105% on every lab. All it takes is the extra time and effort needed to get labs pre-graded. Labs cannot be pre-graded in class on or after the due date.

All labs are available in my shared folder on the school server (not the internet). If you lose a lab just go to my folder and print out another. Do not ask me for extra copies.

At the end of the year I must certify that you have successfully completed 30 hours of lab work. If you have not handed in work you will not be permitted to take the Regents.

SPECIAL NOTE: Hand in work to me personally and watch to be sure that I check you off in my grade book. This is your guarantee that I know the work has been handed in. Never put assignments on my desk and walk away. Never put work in my mailbox or give it to a substitute. If there is no check in my book indicating the work was submitted, then it wasn't handed in.


HOMEWORK:
HW will be checked frequently. You may miss 1 assignment per marking period without penalty. After that your HW grade, which starts as 100%, will drop 5 points per missed assignment.
A HW sheet with the next weeks HW is distributed in class near the end of each week. The HW is also posted on the regentsearth.com website and may be emailed to your parents. The HW sheet will also list tests, quizzes and labs including exactly what material is covered. There is no excuse for not knowing what assignments are due