Classroom Expectations
All assignments you turn into me should:
6th Grade Assignment Policy
Grade Breakdown:
40% Tests and other summative assessments
30% Classwork and projects
20% Quizzes
10% Homework
Healy Grading Scale
A: 100-90
B: 89-80
C: 79-70
D: 69-60
F: 59 & Below
Grade Awareness
- Enter class determined to get to work! Come in and look to the board for what to do first. Do it!
- Treat others with respect and respect each others’ things.
- Our classroom is a place of academic integrity. We work hard. We listen. We collaborate. Unkindness to others or any disruption to learning will not be tolerated. If a student has difficulty with these expectations, expect a conversation with me, a phone call home, a meeting with your parents and the sixth grade teachers and more specific consequences if problems persist.
- Incentives. In 6th grade we celebrate student excellence! Earn reward tickets for outstanding efforts to carry out our classroom expectations. Be ready at the beginning of class! Show consistent classroom integrity and respect! Practice intellectually energetic group work! Inspire others with your thoughtful responses! Rewards tickets can be exchanged for monthly visits to the prize bins, reward books, drop-a-grade and homework passes and other incentives.
- You are responsible for bringing your binder, reading log, agenda and whatever text we are reading to class daily.
- All books that are loaned to you by the school are your responsibility. If you lose a schoolbook, you and your family are responsible for the cost of replacing it.
All assignments you turn into me should:
- Have a Healy heading (including your name!);
- Be completed in blue or black ink;
- Be done on loose-leaf paper, unless otherwise specified (rip off edges from spiral notebooks).
6th Grade Assignment Policy
- Work turned in on time = Full credit
- Work turned in 1 day late = 10% off your score; 2 days late = 20% off your score; 3 days late = 30% off; 4 days late = 40% off; 5 days to two weeks late = 50% off.
- After two weeks, missing work will no longer be accepted. Assignment grade will be a zero.
- The grade you earn in reading class is a reflection of the effort you put in and the quality of the work you produce.
- You will receive points for a wide variety of assignments, such as reading annotations, essays, creative projects, group projects, vocabulary work, discussion participation, quizzes, tests, and your reading log.
- Be aware that sixth grade is a CPS bridge year; students must earn passing grades in order to avoid required summer schooling.
- Push yourself to produce your best work on a daily basis and you will grow!
Grade Breakdown:
40% Tests and other summative assessments
30% Classwork and projects
20% Quizzes
10% Homework
Healy Grading Scale
A: 100-90
B: 89-80
C: 79-70
D: 69-60
F: 59 & Below
Grade Awareness
- Check your grades online on a regular basis. If you notice a missing assignment or if you have a question about a grade, please let me know right away.
- One of your homeroom classmates will collect your missing assignments when you are absent. Expect to find this on your homeroom desk when you return.
- You must make up all quizzes and tests missed while you are absent. See your teacher about tests and quizzes you have missed. This is YOUR responsibility as a middle schooler.
- You have as many days as you were absent to make up your work. For example, if you were absent for two days, you have two days to complete and turn in your work.