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Team 8-3 Welcomes You….

Team 8-3 Welcomes You…. GEORGIA DEPT. OF EDUCATION: http://www.georgiastandards.org/ Pages/default.aspx. GEORGIA STUDIES. WEIGHTING : Assessments: 65% Practice Work: 20% Portfolio/ Semester Exam: 15%. PORTFOLIOS.

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Team 8-3 Welcomes You….

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  1. Team 8-3Welcomes You….

  2. GEORGIA DEPT. OF EDUCATION: http://www.georgiastandards.org/ Pages/default.aspx

  3. GEORGIA STUDIES • WEIGHTING: Assessments: 65% Practice Work: 20% Portfolio/ Semester Exam: 15%

  4. PORTFOLIOS A portfolio is a purposeful collection of an individual’s work that exhibits his/her efforts, progress and achievements in one or more areas. The purpose of a portfolio is to help students keep track of their own learning to show growth in their learning.

  5. FIELD TRIPS • North Georgia Field Trip – 1 Day November 15th $75 • Georgia Studies Trip – 3 days May 7, 8 & 9th $360 More information will be coming soon about payment plans and behavior expectations.

  6. MATH • WEIGHTING: Assessments: 75% Practice: 10% Exam: 15%

  7. MATH • Steps to fixing a bad grade. • Stay on task in class. • Come in for some Free Tutoring • Wed @ 8am • Thurs @ 8am • Redo the assignment. • Wed @ 8am • Thurs @ 8am

  8. MATH • Have Missing Work? • Turn it in. • I will only deduct 1 point. • (Just keep in mind that a missing assignment calculates as a zero in the grade book)

  9. LANGUAGE ARTS • WEIGHTING: Practice: 20% Assessments: 65% Exams: 15%

  10. READING Reading is an important skill that will help students in all academic areas! 8th graders are required to read at least 1 book per 9 weeks for Read 5000. Students must have a book to read anytime they are finished with their work.

  11. STANDARDIZED TESTS January GEORGIA WRITING TEST April CRCT

  12. SCIENCE • WEIGHTING: Assessment: 40% (Tests/Projects) Practice: 20% (CW, Labs, HW) Quizzes: 25% Semester Exams: 15%

  13. ATTENDANCE ◊ Regular school attendance is not only key to a student's success, but mandated by the compulsory attendance law.  ◊ All absences require a written excuse to be submitted in writing (no e-mails) within 3 days of the absence.  ◊ Students are marked absent at 8:55 a.m. 

  14. MAKE-UP WORK • Students are responsible for making up all work missed during absence. • It is the student’s responsibility to follow the teacher’s classroom procedures for obtaining make-up work. • Follow the handbook for the number of days to make up work following an absence.

  15. MISSING WORK ■ Lunch detention will be assigned for missing work. ■ Points will be deducted for any work not submitted on time.

  16. CITATIONS • 1ST -- Written Warning • 2ND -- Parent Communication, Silent Lunch • 3RD -- Parent Communication, Team Discipline • 4TH -- Office Referral BY TEACHER & START OVER EACH SEMESTER

  17. SNACKS • Snacks are sold daily. • Proceeds will be for team rewards and other team events.

  18. DONATIONS • We need the following items: • Paper Towels • Tissues!!! • Hand Sanitizer • Clorox Wipes • Band-aids • Individually Wrapped Candy

  19. COMMUNICATION IS ESSENTIAL!!! E-mail Agendas Infinite Campus Weekly Newsletters via E-mail Schoolwires

  20. Thanks for your support!

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