MR. PICHOLA

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MR. PICHOLAS CPE SCIENCE CLASS

• Welcome! Hopefully you had a great summer and
  are ready to get going.
• My goal is for everyone to be successful and
  have fun
• With that in mind, here are some things you need
  to know

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Things you need to do (your responsibilities)

• Know what to do
• Do it the best you can
• Learn from mistakes rather than make excuses
• If theres a problem, propose a solution

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Things I will do (my responsibilities)

• Let you know what to do
• Expect you to do it
• Hold you responsible
• Be available for help
• Listen
• Provide the environment
• Be consistent/fair to all

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My Philosophy

• Help you become more independent
• Meet you ½ way (you come ½ way, too).
• You are responsible for your learning and
  progress
• Im here to help you get er done.

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Materials

• Text book take it home, bring it back in June
• Binder 3 ring binder with pockets, paper, and
  dividers (graded quarterly)
• Composition notebook for daily writing (graded
  quarterly)
• Pens, pencils you supply no red, pink, yellow,
  orange, markers, colored pencils
• Also calculator with scientific notation,
  colored pencils and/or markers

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Homework

• About three times per week
• Usually finishing in class, sometimes reading
• Due at beginning of class. Late homework is
  accepted up to 1 day late for 1/2.
• Bookquizzes and anything penguin stamped
  cant be late. If you arent prepared, you get a
  0.

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Absences

• Absences 1 day for every day absent. Form on
  bulletin board, fill out and well discuss due
  date
• Announced in class, posted on SchoolPointe and
  bulletin board. Papers in blue bin.
• EXPECTED to check SchoolPointe email me

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Cheating

• See school rules taking credit for any work
  that is not your own, original work
• Includes taking or sharing answers on quizzes,
  assessments, labs, projects and any other
  classroom activity.
• Copying anything anytime for this class or any
  other
• INCLUDES COPYING FROM A PARTNER (only data is OK)

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What about

• Group work?
• Directly copying an answer from someone
  elses paper is cheating
• Showing where an answer is in book is OK
• Talking about bookquizzes/tests?
• Telling someone what is on it is cheating.
• Giving your opinion is not.

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Tests 70 of grade

• Tend to be between 50 and 100 points
• Retakes only if
• D or F (C is at least average mastery)
• within 2 days of test handed back, form to me,
  _at_ what went wrong, how youll fix it.
• Set a retake timewithin 1 week
• 75 (C) maximum, but may not be that well if
  dont prepare
• Will not just be the same testindividual based
  on what you did not get.

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Other stuff 30 of grade

• Bookquizzes on reading everytime, use notes if
  take them (20 40 points, double the number of
  questions) Sometimes no quiz, just notecheck. No
  retakes.
• Labs, worksheets, etc.

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Other stuff 0 of grade

• Pretests
• before you even learn anything
• Self Assessments
• Along the way in a unit
• Both are graded and recorded, but not part of
  final grade0 weight
• Both help you (and me) keep track of your
  progress, and see when you need to come in for
  help

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Extra Credit

• Maximum of 30 points each quarter.
• Tell me what you want to do, I dont have little
  papers/projects for you
• Should relate to class and extend your knowledge
• CPE Cents, sticker cards, bathroom passes

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Grading scale

• Tests are 70 final grade, other stuff 30
• A 100 - 89.5 B 89.4 - 79.5
• C 79.4 - 69.5 D 69.4 - 59.5
• F 59.4 0
• I dont constantly update grades...keep track
  yourself (Ill show you how) and check that
  when I update about every 2 weeks.

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Extra Help

• Afterschool Study Center, Rm. 94, tutors
  available M Th, 230 330
• Office hours open roomTues. Thurs. 230
  330, or by 24 hours notice
• Morning before a test

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Behavior

• Respect
• including respect for ones self, others and
  their property.
• I respect you and your property and I would
  expect the same from you.

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Class Rules

• 1. Listen when others are talking
• 2. Be on time to class, with materials, seated
  and ready
• 3. Keep hands to self
• 4. No inappropriate outbursts,
• 5. Not eat or drink in class (gum is OK)
• 6. Clock does not dismiss, teacher does.

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Lab Safety

• Get 1 warning to get back on track
• Then lose ½ points
• Then lose rest and possibly detention

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Participation Grade

• Everydayon board writing assignment. Come in,
  write down question and answer it. By the time
  the bell rings, everyone should be seated and
  silently working.
• Lose points for not silently working during
  warm up
• About 50 points per quarter

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Topics, sem. 1

• Intro topics, measurement, graphing, scientific
  methods
• Laws of Motion
• Work, Power, Energy
• Heat Transfer
• Wave Phenomena (light and sound)

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Topics, sem. 2

• Origins of the Universe
• Atomic structure
• Periodic Table
• Chemical Bonding
• Chemical Reactions

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Welcome

• Your job to do the work
• My job to let you know what to do and to help
  you
• Anything I can do to helplet me know
• Hope we have fun in Science!