Grading+Policies,+Class+Rules+and+Expectations

French Class Rules and Grading Policy 2014-15 Mme Jeanne Schulté Columbus North International School School phone: 614-365-4054 614-365-4054    E-mail: jschulte9870@columbus.k12.oh.us

**1. BE NICE.** Treat others the same way you want to be treated. **2. SHOW ****RESPECT** for yourself, other students and for the teacher, along with their personal property. **Remove hats in class**, and **put away all cell phones, music devices and headphones for the entire class period.** **3. ****BE COURTEOUS** to others. Come into class each day with a **positive attitude and on time. IF** you are occasionally late, sign in and **QUIETLY** take your seat. **4. ****Enter the classroom and take your seat BEFORE the bell rings.** Sharpen pencils, etc., **BEFORE** you hear the bell. When the teacher enters and says **BONJOUR TOUT LE MONDE, you should be seated, your folder open in front of you and homework out!** **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">6. Finish any food or drink BEFORE you enter class, not in class. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">(No food or drink allowed in class.) Do NOT apply cosmetics or nail polish in class. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">7. Be engaged in class discussions and lessons. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Do your homework so that you are prepared to **PARTICIPATE** in class in French every day. This is expected from you. Ask and answer questions. **Participation is 25% of your grade!** Always use appropriate language. (NO CURSING.) **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">8. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">**REMAIN SEATED** throughout the entire class period. Ask the teacher for permission to get up for something.Please don't whine if I refuse you permission. Some days are just like that. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">9. ASK for the pass if you need to use the restroom. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Each student will receive **3 passes** per grading period to be used for bathroom privileges (**not** to go to lockers, etc.). **Don’t lose the 3 passes or waste them.** Please don't whine about it if I refuse you permission.Some days are just like that. The school rule is **NO PASSES the 1st 10 minutes or the last 10 minutes of a class**. Also, NO PASSES period 1. If you have any passes left at the end of the grading period, you can turn them in for 10 points each extra credit on the last day of the GP. **It is your responsibility to remember to do this. No late passes accepted.** **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">10. Please don't come in and ask me if the class can have a "free" day. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> I would be wasting your time and mine - and taxpayers' money - if I said yes. **Everything** we will do this year will have a **French and/or global connection.I LOVE French and I want you to love it, too!**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">5. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">**BE PREPARED** for class. **Plan ahead.** Bring HW folder, books, paper and pen/pencil to class every day. **Stay on task: do French in French class.**

**<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">*Of course, all student conduct will comply with the Columbus City Schools’ and ** **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Columbus North International School’s guide to student conduct.* **

**<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">FRENCH CLASSROOM GRADING POLICY and MATERIALS ** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">Grades are figured on the point system, and are weighted.(See explanation below.) You are responsible for tracking your grade daily (or at least weekly) online on **Engrade.** Your parents are also welcome to view your grades! Remember:Grades are earned, not given. No grades are “rounded up”. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">According to the Columbus Board of Education Policy (April 2014), the grading scale is: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">A+: 98 -100%; A: 92 - 97.99%; A-: 90-91.99%; ** **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">B+: 88-89.99%; B: 82-87.99%; B-: 80-81.99% ** **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">C+: 78-79.99%; C: 72-77.99%; C-:70-71.99%; ** **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">D+:68-69.99%; D:62-67.99%; D-: 60-61.99% ** **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">F:0-59.99% **

**<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">WEIGHTING OF GRADES: **

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">The components of each grading period grade are as follows:

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">French 3 <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">"I Can" Unit Stamp Sheet(s) - 25% <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Tests, Quizzes and Project(s) - 25% <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">In-class and at-home work - 25% <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Class Participation/Engagement - 25%

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">AP: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Tests, Quizzes and Project(s) - 34% <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">In-class and at-home work - 33% <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Class Participation/Engagement - 33%

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">**To be successful, you must __PUT AWAY YOUR CELL PHONE, MUSIC DEVICE and HEADPHONES and PAY ATTENTION IN CLASS__. Be prepared to answer and contribute in class each and every day!** **Do SOMETHING each evening at home to reenforce what you learned how to do in French earlier in the day.Frequent review is __very important__ in learning a foreign language.**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">**Homework:** Each week you will receive a packet of exercises to complete and vocabulary to study. You are expected to complete 2-3 pages per day. You will be given websites for videos and flashcards that may help you. Use them. Expect to take a short quiz most Fridays to show what you learned during the week.

**If you are absent: There are MANY ways to find out missing assignments if you happen to be absent.**

<span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">You can: <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">1) check this Wiki for assignments or2) check the crates with assignments in them (in the classroom) or3) email Mme Schulté at jschulte9870@columbus.k12.oh.us or4) get the assignment from the class ambassador on Instagram. <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Remember that it is YOUR responsibility to find out assignments.

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A student who is absent the day of a test with an **excused** absence must make up that test either during lunch period or before or after school. Any test not made up will become a zero (0) at the end of the 9 week grading period. =====

** *Cultural Connections: Students may attend an international cultural event, festival, movie, exhibition, etc., each 9 weeks for a possible 100 point extra credit grade. Students will write a report 2 paragraphs long, in French, that answers the questions Who? What? Where? How? When? Why? What he/she learned? and Did he/she like it. //Example: Student attends Renoir exhibit at Columbus Museum of Art, then writes a 2 paragraph summary of who went to the exhibit, what was in the exhibit, where it was, when he/she went, how they found out about it and got there, what they learned and their recommendation to others: if they liked it or not and why.// ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Your grade for the year is calculated as follows:Grading Period 1 (GP1)-20%;GP2-20%;Semester exam-10%;GP3-20%;GP4-20%;Final exam-10%*Grades are NEVER rounded up.You must EARN the grade you want.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">MATERIALS **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Students are to keep assignments in the 2-pocket folder handed out in class. Seminar students will have a purple folder given to them by me. Do NOT put other subjects in this folder! Bring your folder to class each day! Don't lose it! Assignments and handouts are not to be stored in the textbook itself. It ruins the binding!(Replacing a book at the end of the year will cost the student $80. Rebinding a book will cost $10.) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">French 3 : __You will not__ need to bring your textbook (Bon Voyage 3) every day. The teacher will tell you ahead of time when you will need to bring your book. Write it down. Be responsible. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">French AP: __You will need__ to bring your textbook (Réseau) every day, until told otherwise. You will also be assigned 2 novels to read during the year. Love your books and take care of them! **

**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">French **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> **3 and AP Class Final Participation/Engagement Grading Rubric-CNIS 2014-15-Mme Schulté**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Student Name: __Date:__ ___ **

=<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Points = ||
 * =<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Criteria = || = =
 * || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">4 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">3 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">2 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">1 ** ||^  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Amount **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">of **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">French **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Used **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">(Speaking) ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You use **French all or most of the time (90-100%** of the class) and ask before speaking in English || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You use **French often (70-89%** of the class) and usually ask before speaking in English || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You use **French half of the time (50-69%** of the class) and sometimes ask before speaking in English || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You use **French less than 50%** of the class and rarely ask before speaking in English ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Level of Engagement **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">in Class **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">(Listening; **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Volunteering) ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You **contribute** to class by offering ideas and asking questions **more than once** per class **in French.** You are **always or** **almost always** on task and **actively contributing** to group activities. || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You **contribute** to class by offering ideas and asking questions **once** per class in French. You are **usually** on task and actively involved in group activities. || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You **rarely** **contribute** to class by offering ideas and asking questions **in French.** You are **sometimes** on task during group activities. || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You **never** **contribute** to class by offering ideas and asking questions **in French.** You are **rarely** **or never** on task during group activities (ie. using cellphone). ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Listening and **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Synthesis **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Skills ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You **always or** **almost always listen** when others talk, both in groups and in class. You **incorporate or build off** the ideas of others. || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You **usually listen** when others talk, both in groups and in class, but you do not use what you hear. || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You **often do not** **listen** when others talk, either in groups or in class. You do not use what others say. || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You **do not** **listen** when others talk, either in groups or in class. You **often interrupt** when others speak. ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Quality of French Used ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You are **consistently** able to respond in **complete French sentences** and you attempt **multiple sentence/clause** responses. || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You consistently **attempt to respond in complete French** **sentences.** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You usually respond in **single words or simple phrases with some English**. Not much additional information. || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Your **responses are often hard to understand or are** **inappropriate** to the situation. **Isolated phrases or no French**. You are resistant to using French. ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Preparation **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">For **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Engagement **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">And Participation ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You are **always or** **almost always** **prepared** for class with completed assignments. You have appropriate materials out and effectively use them. || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You are **usually** **prepared** for class with completed assignments. You **usually** have appropriate materials out and effectively use them. || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You **rarely** have assigned work **prepared** for class. You **often** need to be reminded to take out appropriate materials or to try to use them. || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">You **almost never** have assigned work **prepared** for class. You **usually** need repeated reminders to take out appropriate materials or to try to use them. ||  ||

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">TOTAL>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
|| **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> / 20 ** ||

**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">French 3:Participation/Engagement counts as __25% of your quarterly grade__! Do a great job! ** **French AP-33%**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-align: left; top: 1521.5px; width: 1px;">You may turn in unused passes (for 10 extra credit points each) on the last day of each Grading Period. It is your responsibility to remember to do this. No late passes are accepted.