Mrs. Shirk

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Mrs. Shirks Class

• Welcome to 8th grade

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Entering the classroom

• Line up outside the room and wait for the
  students from the previous class to exit
• Enter quietly.
• Sit quietly in your seat.

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Beginning of Class

• Sit in your assigned seat.
• Get your materials ready (sharpen your pencil,
  get paper and notebook, open your book).
• Do your bellringer-List date, question, and
  answer!

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Late to class

• Check the agenda and get on task!

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End of period

• Work on exit/homework assignment until the bell
  rings.
• Wait for Mrs. Shirk to dismiss you at the end of
  class.
• Quietly and quickly exit the room.

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Fire Drill Procedure

• Quietly and quickly line up.
• Wait for Mrs. Shirk to dismiss.
• Last person from room turn out lights.
• Turn right when you exit the room and exit the
  building from the bus riders entrance to the
  school. (If gates are pulled or there is an
  actual fire blocking our way, turn around and go
  out the 8th grade wing door facing Yellow Bud)
• Line up off the parking lot.
• Listen for Mrs. Shirk to call your name.
• Wait to be told to go back into the building
• Walk back into the building in a quiet and
  orderly way
• Enter the room and take your seat quietly.

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Listening to/Responding to questions

• Listen for the teachers complete question and
  directions. If you are to discuss with a partner
  first, do so.
• Raise your hand and wait quietly for the teacher
  to call on you before answering.

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How to participate in class

• Listen carefully to the teacher and all
  instructions
• Stay on task-follow directions
• Work with your partner-talk quietly and take
  notes on what your teacher told you to discuss.

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Desk organization

• Important materials on desk.
• Things you are not using under the desk in the
  basket.

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Signal that you dont understand

• Raise your hand.
• Wait for Mrs. Shirk to call on you.
• Explain what you dont understand.
• Listen carefully to Mrs. Shirks explanation.

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When you return from an absence

• Log on to the computer.
• Go to moorefieldmiddle.com
• Click on School Staff on the right of the page.
• Click on Deanna Shirk
• Bring up the classroom calendar.
• Click on the color tab for your class period for
  the day you missed. This will bring up the
  assignments that were completed when you were
  gone.

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Working in groups

• Talk quietly at all times!
• Assign a group leader.
• Review your task.
• Divide the task. (Leader, presenter, recorder,
  go-for)
• Be working on your task at all times.
• When time is called, quit talking and give your
  attention to the teacher/presenter.

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Taking notes

• Have a three ring folder that you can keep any
  important notes in.
• If I write it on the board, you should write it
  in your notes.
• Keep your notes in your folder.

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Passing Papers (when Mrs. Shirk gives you papers)

• Take one paper from the top of the pile and pass
  the pile quietly to the person behind you.

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Heading your paper

• On the right hand side.
• Name-First and last
• Date
• Class periodyt

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Turning in your work

• If everyone is turning in work individually.
• Quietly walk to the front of the room and place
  your paper in the proper inbox for your class.
• If everyone is turning them in at once
• Pass your paper to the front of the row. The
  first person in the row will take the entire pile
  of papers and place them in the proper inbox for
  your class.

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Going to the bathroom

• You will not be allowed to go to the bathroom
  when Mrs. Shirk is teaching or explaining
  something to you.
• Appropriate times to go to the bathroom
• Before class has started- bellringer
• Between classes
• When the class is working on individual practice
  work.

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Procedure for Bathroom

• Quietly ask Mrs. Shirk if you may go to the
  bathroom- at the appropriate time.
• Once you have permission to go to the bathroom,
  sign out on the Out of Sight Out of Mind
  sheet-Put your name, what time you are going, and
  where you are going.
• Take the purple hall pass with you to the
  bathroom.
• When you return, squirt hand sanitizer on your
  hands and the hall pass and sanitize both.
• Sign back in on the Out of Sight Out of Mind
  sheet.

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Getting out Your materials

• When possible, gather all materials that you know
  you will need at the beginning of class (paper,
  pencil, book, laptop if we are using them for the
  day).
• When you need to gather additional materials
• Send one person from your group to gather if you
  are working in a group.
• Quietly go the where the materials are gathered,
  get what you need, and return to your seat/group.

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Moving around the room.

• When you have to move to another part of the room
  to get materials or turn in work
• Take the shortest route to getting what you need.
• Keep your hands and feet to yourself
• Do not handle other students things
• Quickly and quietly get what you need
• Quickly and quietly return to your seat and
  resume working.

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Returning to a task after interruption

• If we have a fire drill, visitor to our room, or
  an announcement that interrupts our work
• Remain quiet during the interruption
• If the interruption does not require your
  attention, continue working (visitor to class
  that needs to see Mrs. Shirk)
• If the interruption does take your attention,
  quickly resume work when the interruption has
  ended- NO TALKING

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When you finish early

• You will be required to complete a certain
  amount of independent writing every six weeks.
  The topic of writing is your choice, but it must
  stay within the guidelines of school rules. You
  may use Mrs. Shirks writing topic starters to
  help you get started if you can not think of a
  topic. When you finish work early, you may work
  on your independent writing in your journal. You
  may not talk.

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Announcements

• Whenever there is an announcement made over the
  loudspeaker, that is important information.
• Remain quiet.
• Stop what you are doing and listen to the
  announcement-it might be important information
  that YOU need.
• Return to your work at the end of the
  announcement.
• If the announcement requires that you leave the
  room, quietly ask Mrs. Shirk for permission to
  leave the room and be sure to sign the Out of
  Sight Sheet.

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Hallway

• If we have to move to somewhere else as a class.
• Line up single file.
• No talking in the hall.
• Move quickly and take your seat at our
  destination immediately.

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When a visitor enters the room

• Show your best behavior.
• Stay on task-do not discontinue working unless
  Mrs. Shirk tells you to do so.
• Do not speak to the visitor unless Mrs. Shirk
  tells you to.

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If the teacher is out of the classroom

• Continue working quietly
• Do not leave your seat
• If the phone rings, politely answer, Mrs.
  Shirks room, and let the person know that I
  stepped out of the room and take a message.
  Otherwise, do NOT answer the phone.

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When teacher is absent

• If there is a substitute
• Be on your best behavior-Remember, a pink slip
  from a substitute is an automatic after school
  detention.
• Continue to use the classroom procedures that we
  have learned.
• I need one volunteer from the class to make sure
  that the substitute knows where everything is and
  help if needed.

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If you are sick

• If you feel like you might be sick, you have
  permission to NOT ask permission to leave the
  room. Go to the restroom and Mrs. Shirk will
  send someone to check on you.

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Manners go a LONG way

• Use your manners! Say please, thank you, you are
  welcome. It makes school such a nice place to be
  when we are nice to each other.

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Check Yourself

• If you misbehave
• You will be given ONE warning-Mrs. Shirk will put
  a sticky note on your desk.
• The next time you misbehave, you will write your
  name on the board-neatly and big enough to see,
  but not huge
• If you misbehave again, you will get a check mark
  by your name and you will receive a pink slip

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Laptops

• Laptops will be stacked no more than 6 high
• All laptops should face the wall when stacked.
• Do not charge your laptop until the battery is
  below 10.
• Do not get another laptop if the battery level is
  low, plug in the one you already have.