MR.BALLOU

HONORS WORLD HISTORY

Course Syllabus

 

Students are to be in class each day with the textbook, paper, pencil/pen, and notebook. Students are to come fully prepared and ready to participate actively.  If absent the student is responsible for getting notes and making up work.  Remember absences include field trips, family vacations, as well as illness.  An assessment of assignments and the grade in progress should be made before committing to one of these activities. Students who miss a class should call a friend to find out what was missed so work is completed when the student returns.

 

Each student must have a spiral notebook dedicated exclusively to this class.  Class notes should be taken daily and used as a study guide.  Students are responsible for all information in assignments and presented in class.  If a reading is not fully discussed or in cases of absences the student is still responsible for all of the information. 

 

Class time is limited and extremely valuable.  Being in the room when the bell rings is imperative.  Those who are late or pack up early waste time that the entire class could use for instructional purposes.  If a student disagrees with a grade or a test /assignment question, see the teacher on your own time.

 

Students have the same number of days as absent to make up work.  All tests must be made up within a week of the given day.  Make-up tests will differ from the one given to the class.  Arrangements must be made to make up tests after school, or during a free period.  Tests will never be made up during class.

 

Large papers and projects are due on the date announced, even if the student is absent.  Late assignments are accepted but the grade is no higher than 69%.  For papers not turned or plagiarized, the grade is zero.

 

Academic honesty is expected.  Copying the work of others on homework, tests, or failure to cite sources in a paper or assignment is considered cheating.  A zero will be given for this work.  Students should not lend work to others since time will not be spent to determine the true author. 

 

Quarter grades are based on assignments, quizzes, unit evaluations (tests and/or projects), and class participation.  The following scale is used: 100-90 = A, 89-80 = B, 79-70= C, 69-60=D, 59 and below is a failing grade.

 

 

 

 

Plagiarism: What Is It? How can I Avoid It?

(By L. Kemp and Mr. Spinrad) 

Plagiarism is a form of cheating. It is submitting someone else’s work as your own.

For example,

· Downloaded research papers or essays

· Purchased papers

· Copied articles or parts of articles

· Cut and pasted words, phrases, or paragraphs from the internet or other sources

· Part of a whole quote

· Information from a source with a few words changed

· Someone else’s ideas paraphrased without citation

· Faked citations

 

All papers must be in your own words. If you use someone else’s idea, you may write a short quote and include a citation, or you may paraphrase the idea and include a citation. I prefer APA citation format but will gladly accept MLA format too. Just use one or the other.

 

If you plagiarize you will receive 0 points on the assignment. (Many colleges expel students guilty of plagiarism.)

 

 

How do I avoid plagiarism?

· Don’t procrastinate. Plan time in your schedule to complete your papers, so you are not tempted to act unethically.

· Cite all sources.

 

Citation formats on the web:

www.citationmachine.net (tool to help you create citations)     

www.apastyle.org/electext.html (APA style for electronic formats)

http://apastyle.apa.org/previoustips.html (APA style)

http://www.refdesk.com/ (use MLA format link)

http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/library/mlahcc.html (MLA citation styles)

 

Outline formatting on the web:http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_outlin.html