Honors French IV
Dr. Romanczuk 2011-2012
I. Grades will be averaged as follows:
**Daily homework, class participation, workbook completion 20%
**Quizzes 35%
**Tests 30%
**Oral presentations 15%
II. Tests are all of equal value and will be announced in advance. There will be a test after every chapter, approximately, 3 tests every nine weeks. A semester exam and comprehensive final exam will be given during the year.
III. Quizzes may be announced or unannounced. Quiz grades are very important and can significantly raise and/or lower your grade.
IV. Speaking tests (oral tests) are given frequently. These tests will be announced in advance and the student will receive specific study materials in order to prepare for this test. Speaking tests may be in many forms—memorized conversations and dialogues, skits, presentations, asking and answering questions, reading a passage from a novel, working with flashcards, etc. The majority of speaking tests will be on a cassette
V. Homework is to be completed daily. Homework will be checked daily. At the beginning of each nine weeks, students will receive 12 percentage points for class participation. ½ percentage point will be deducted from this grade each time any of the following occurs
· Textbook or workbook is not brought to class
· Homework is not completed
· Homework is not corrected in class
· Student does not participate in class
· Textbook is not covered
· Student does not have pens/pencils
· Student is tardy to class without a note
Late assignments are unacceptable. Homework may be collected and graded at any time whether or not it was previously announced.
VI. Students may be required to do one research project every nine weeks on a variety of topics.
VII. Students must have a binder for this class. Calendars, vocabulary pages and homework are to be kept in this binder. This binder must be brought to class everyday. You need 5 dividers Label them as follows: COURS CHRONOLOGIE CHRONO II ECOUTE DEVOIRS IN ADDITION, each student must have an additional binder for historical pages. (Check with me each year about this)
VIII. The following grading scale will be used:
A+ 98-100
A 92-97 C 72-77
A- 90-91 C- 70-71
B+ 88-89 D+ 68-69
B 82-87 D 62-67
B- 80-81 D- 60-61
C+ 78-79 F 59 and below
Grades are rarely “rounded up” and only in special instances. This would include all homework completed, a perfect notebook and great class participation. This will be decided on a case-by-case study.
IX. Occasionally, compositions, tapes, and projects will be assigned and collected for
a grade. If these larger assignments are late, the student will lose 10 points per day from the grade, starting on the due date itself. In other words, if the paper is due fourth period and it is turned in during seventh period, it will be graded and then 10 points will be deducted from the score. On the following day the student would lose 20 points, and so on.
X. Make-up for quizzes and tests must be completed in a timely manner. Any quiz or test not taken will be marked as a 0. If you have an unexcused absence from the main office, you will not be able to make-up quizzes and tests.
XI. Academic dishonesty is wrong. If a student is caught cheating or plagiarizing,
the student will receive a ZERO for the assignment. Cheating is obtaining
answers from somewhere other than your own mind and/or whatever resources
students are expressly permitted at that point. Plagiarism is passing off someone
else’s words or ideas as your own.
XII. In order to pass this class for the year, you must adhere to the 20-20-10 rule.
That means that you must have aa total of 60 points to pass this class for the year. 30 of those points must be earned in the second semester. For each quarter that
you pass, you receive 20 points. You receive 10 points for every exam you pass.
XIII. No electronic devices of any kind are permitted in class. This includes, but is not limited to, cell phones, iPods, electronic planners, blackberries, etc. If any of these devices are in use or in plain view, they will be confiscated and given to the principal for a parent to pick up.
XIV. Students need a cassette tape, CD-RW, or a dedicated flash drive,French dictionary, and binder for this class.
XV. No food, gum or drink is permitted in French class.
XVI. Parents may reach me at school at 231-4591 VM 6575 or through the Bexley email: barbara.romanczuk@bexleyschools.org. Email is the most efficient way to communicate with me. Email is checked daily.
XVII. Texts used in class:
Amsco French Three Eli Blume
Trésors du Temps Yvonne Lenard
and accompanying workbook
XVIII. To follow the class and to view homework
assignments please go to
www.bexleyschools.org and then click on Homework Now!!!
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