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Supplies and Expectations

You must have the following supplies with you at all times:

*Silent reading book. Make sure you find books that you are interested in reading because you will be spending some time with them. If you need help finding a book, please see me or the librarian. Remember, no magazines in class.

1.   pencil box or 3-hole plastic pencil pouch which contains:
2.   at least two blue or black pens
3.   at least two red pens
4.   at least two sharpened #2 pencils and a small covered pencil sharpener OR
      mechanical pencil with plenty of lead
5.   an eraser
6.   at least three different colored highlighters
7.   one set of colored pencils
8.   a small pair of scissors
9.   a small ruler
10. a small pack of post it notes (any color or shape)
11. a USB drive for your work

Your three ring binder should contain the following items:
12. Eagle Agenda! (all pages must be kept in the agenda for the entire year)
13. plain printer paper
14. 8 1/2” x 11” index dividers to separate subjects in binder
15. lined binder paper (college rule preferred)
16. a small pack of index cards (any color). You will need to buy more throughout the school year.
17. two boxes of tissues for the school year.

This list is not carved in stone. I may have you add to it later.

Your binder must be sectioned in the following way:

1. Completed homework

2. Class Rules/lists

3. Vocabulary -

4. English (Ex. grammar work)

5. Writing (Ex. essays, short stories, poems)

6. Literature (Ex. any work having to do with novels we read)

7. Social Studies (Ex. notes, worksheets)

8. Geography (Ex. Daily Geography worksheets, maps)

It is very important that you have the sections set up in this way so your work is easy to find.

Keep the following in your binder!

Keep ALL your old work at home in folders which are divided into different classes until you receive your last report card in July.

Seventh Grade Team Rules

1. Be on time.

2. Come to class prepared.

3. Follow directions immediately.

4. Respect the rights of others.

5. Listen attentively, participate appropriately, and work quietly.

6. No personal items: toys, stuffed animals, etc

7. No note passing

8. Homework is LATE if it is not completed before initial entry into classroom.

Class rules:

1. RESPECT others at all times in our class.
Treat others better than you expect to be treated.

2. Come to class prepared and on time.

3. Follow directions immediately.

4. One speaker at a time; no shouting out, no chatter.

5. Listen attentively, participate appropriately, and work quietly.

Citizenship grade:

Click here to see the MVMS citizenship rubric

Everyone starts with good citizenship.

Exceptional actions over and above expected behavior increase your grade.

Inappropriate behavior and being unprepared both decrease your grade.

Effort Grade:

Your effort is determined by the number of assignments that are turned in, the quality of each assignment, and your effort in class.

Grading Expectations:

I assign a certain number of points for each assignment according to how much time and effort they each require. You can easily figure out your % grade by dividing the number of points you earned by the total possible for that assignment.

Example: You received 40 points on your project. The assignment was worth 50 points = 40 = 80%
50

A= 90-100% Well Above Average

B= 80-89% Above Average

C= 70-79% Average (this means you are working at grade level)

D= 60-69% Below Average

F= 59% and below Unsatisfactory

Since one of the goals of our seventh grade team is to promote student responsibility, no late work will receive full credit unless the student has an excused absence from being ill.

It is the responsibility of the student to contact me (during break, lunch, before or after school) when he or she returns to schedule due dates for make-up work and missing tests. If missing work is not made up, it will be recorded as a zero.

Any work done for an OCIS (Off Campus Independent Study) must be turned in the day you return to school.

If you know you are going to be going on a field trip for another class and will miss school, see me before the trip and you will be asked to turn it in the day you get back from the trip.

If you are out ill and are not too ill, it is your responsibility to contact a study partner and turn in the work on the day following your absence.

Certain assignments that are assigned more that five days in advance of the due date will only receive 70% credit if turned in one day late.
After that, it will receive 60% of the grade earned until the next grading period.

Any work that has no name will go on the tray at the front of the room. If the owner does not claim it by the end of the week, it will go in the trash, and will be given no credit.

Plagiarism (very important!)

click here to see the district academic honesty policy

Plagiarism is using another person's words as your own. This also goes for copying another person's tests, class work, or homework, lending another student your work, or working with others on an individual project.

The best way to avoid plagiarism is to read information about the subject, then put away the source and write about what you read. That way it will be in your own words.

If you need to quote a source, make sure you place quotation marks before and after the quote you want to use.

I have listed the way you should give credit to your sources, and we will have lessons in class about how to give credit. (take note of all the punctuation-commas, periods, semi colons, quotes, etc.)

EASYBIB.COM IS A GREAT RESOURCE FRO HELPING YOU SET UP YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.easybib.com/

a book with one author
Last name, first name. Title. place published: Publisher,
date published.

a book with two or three authors
Last name, first name and first name and last name. Title.
place published: Publisher, date published.

a book with more than three authors or editors
Last name, first name, et al.,eds. Title. place published:
Publisher, date published.

Encyclopedia article
Last name, first name. "Title of article." Title of Encyclopedia.
date published.

Note: If the article is followed by the author's initials and not their whole name, check in the index of authors for the author's full name (This is usually found in the front of each volume) If it is unsigned, give the title first.

Signed newspaper article
Last name, first name. "Title of article." Title of newspaper
Full date of article, section : page #.

Unsigned newspaper article
"Title of article." Editorial. Title of newspaper Full date
of newspaper, section# : page #.

website
Title of website, Author's name, date website
created or updated, date retrieved,
<full web address>

Click here to get the PUSD spelling list categorized by unit.
http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/pusdmvms/6thgrade/6LA/spelling/7thlist.htm

New information about logging in at the computer labs!

Student Login Method to Novell Has Changed: Students will have a new method of logging into the network. This will also affect the naming of the student HOME directories on the server. Students will be listed by their full student ID rather than their name.

The location is now STUDENT

The USERNAME is now the FULL STUDENT ID

The PASSWORD is now their BIRTHDATE in a 6-character format (mmddyy)

You may save work to the shared drive created just for students. Save to: f:\student home ~ G:\student shared

Citizenship Rubric Please check this frequently to see how you measure up.

Textbook prices - - If, due to some disaster, you lose or damage a book, you will need this reference to see how much a replacement will set you back.