Grade Recording Procedure
I record bell work at the end of each week, not each day. It would take waaaaay too long to record your work daily. So each week you'll be able to see how you're doing on bellwork and preparedness.
Early Term Grades
Some of you were concerned about having a low grade, and I think it's great that you want to get a good grade. Right now the only graded work we have done is bellwork and preparedness. So if you have missed any of these small assignments it will look like it impacts your grade significantly.
But that's not the case. Bellwork and preparedness is only 30 percent of your grade. Actual class assignments are work 70 percent of your grade. So when we start grading the class assignments you'll be able to have a better idea of how you are doing.
Making Up Bellwork
I know that many of you have excused absences for games and trips, but bellwork isn't available for makeup. Bellwork is an integral part of the curriculum as it frames our early class discussion and engages the class in thinking exercises that cannot be performed alone. If you aren't in class, you miss that discussion and exercise. It's much like missing football practice.
This will be my policy unless the students are able to present persuasive evidence that it is unsound academically.
