WHAT YOU NEED
Attendance: Attendance will be taken at the beginning of the class. You need to show up, on time, at 8:15. This is will be 45 minutes per day, four days a week. It will be fast paced. If you miss a few minutes, you will miss a large percentage of the information. Any student 10 minutes late will be marked absent and must make up the class at a later date. Absences and tardiness will affect your grade. If an absence is unavoidable, please let me know ahead of time.
Supplies: You need to have your own pencils or pens. I will neither provide them for you nor allow students to begin to do so.
You need two notebooks. A writing pad for jotting down notes during the class and a ring binder in which to keep the study sheets and handouts.
Papers: I will require two semester papers from each of you. I will give you the pool from which you may choose in the coming classes. I require semester papers so that I know you have grasped the issues sufficiently to be able to verbalize them, rather than simply spitting back a formulaic answer.
I have already provided you a pool of topics from which you may choose for extra credit papers. Let’s say you have a bad grade and you’d like to make it up. You may write a paper for extra credit. Let’s say you have good grades but you’d like a chance to improve them. You may write a paper for extra credit. The extra credit papers are not required and I will not suggest them to you later. You must take personal responsibility for them and take it upon yourself to write them or not.
Consider looking over the “Extra Credit Papers” handout for greater clarity but in short, all papers will be typed in Arial 12 and double spaced. They should be no less than 1,500 words and no more than 2,000 words. References should be footnoted. They should have an accurate bibliography that includes the pages your paper references. References do not count in the word limit. Do not waste time on fancy covers. Simply stapling the pages together is adequate.
All thoughts, words, and ideas that are not your own must be referenced appropriately. You may cite references from popular magazines and newspapers and the textbooks, but you should not rely solely on these sources.
Papers must be turned in on the morning they are due before school in the sanctuary starts. Once class starts in the learning center you are officially overdue. You will lose one letter grade per day the work is overdue. Grades will be given based on the following:
A 94–100%
A- 90–93%
B 84–89%
B- 80–83%
C 74–79%
C- 70–73%
D 64–69%
D- 60–63%
F BELOW 60%
You must engage your brain. It is absolutely crucial that you are able to discuss the material, make observations and arguments to defend your points, and ask probing questions that further our discussions.
Class format
· Attendance taken
· Opening prayer (2-3 minutes)
· Check and discuss any homework (6-10 minutes)
· Scheduled, written or unscheduled, pop quizzes (8-10 minutes)
· Brief review (3-5 minutes)
· Lesson (30-35 minutes)
· Brief review/summary of new material (2-3 minutes)
· Reading assignments (1-2 minutes)
Supplies: You need to have your own pencils or pens. I will neither provide them for you nor allow students to begin to do so.
You need two notebooks. A writing pad for jotting down notes during the class and a ring binder in which to keep the study sheets and handouts.
Papers: I will require two semester papers from each of you. I will give you the pool from which you may choose in the coming classes. I require semester papers so that I know you have grasped the issues sufficiently to be able to verbalize them, rather than simply spitting back a formulaic answer.
I have already provided you a pool of topics from which you may choose for extra credit papers. Let’s say you have a bad grade and you’d like to make it up. You may write a paper for extra credit. Let’s say you have good grades but you’d like a chance to improve them. You may write a paper for extra credit. The extra credit papers are not required and I will not suggest them to you later. You must take personal responsibility for them and take it upon yourself to write them or not.
Consider looking over the “Extra Credit Papers” handout for greater clarity but in short, all papers will be typed in Arial 12 and double spaced. They should be no less than 1,500 words and no more than 2,000 words. References should be footnoted. They should have an accurate bibliography that includes the pages your paper references. References do not count in the word limit. Do not waste time on fancy covers. Simply stapling the pages together is adequate.
All thoughts, words, and ideas that are not your own must be referenced appropriately. You may cite references from popular magazines and newspapers and the textbooks, but you should not rely solely on these sources.
Papers must be turned in on the morning they are due before school in the sanctuary starts. Once class starts in the learning center you are officially overdue. You will lose one letter grade per day the work is overdue. Grades will be given based on the following:
A 94–100%
A- 90–93%
B 84–89%
B- 80–83%
C 74–79%
C- 70–73%
D 64–69%
D- 60–63%
F BELOW 60%
You must engage your brain. It is absolutely crucial that you are able to discuss the material, make observations and arguments to defend your points, and ask probing questions that further our discussions.
Class format
· Attendance taken
· Opening prayer (2-3 minutes)
· Check and discuss any homework (6-10 minutes)
· Scheduled, written or unscheduled, pop quizzes (8-10 minutes)
· Brief review (3-5 minutes)
· Lesson (30-35 minutes)
· Brief review/summary of new material (2-3 minutes)
· Reading assignments (1-2 minutes)
