Grading Policy for 6^th Grade

 

Six weeks averages are calculated using the following assignment weights:

 

50%--Tests and major projects

50%--Daily work/homework (25%) and quizzes (25%)

 

Grade Penalties for Late Work in 6^th Grade:

 

1. Work is expected to be turned in on the day it is due.
2. In the event that an assignment is turned in late, it must be turned in before the final assessment for the unit to receive any credit.  (The final assessment may be a test, project, web quest, etc.)
3. A major project will receive a 10-point deduction for each day it is late
4. Daily work will receive a 20-point deduction the first day it is late.  *** If you do not turn in an assignment on the day that is due, I will enter it into gradespeed as a "missing" assignment. Gradespeed interprets any "missing" assignment as a zero. A zero will really hurt your overall average, so it is very important to complete every assignment and turn it in on the actual day it is due. Once the late assignment is turned in, a deduction of 20pts will be taken from the grade earned and it will be substituted for the "missing" grade.***
5. You may correct a failing grade up to a 70 by doing the following things on a clean sheet of notebook paper that MUST be stapled to the back of the original assignment/quiz/test that was failed: write the number of the problem you missed, show your new work & the correct answer (label the answer if it is a word problem and/or write the letter of the multiple choice answer along with what is attached to that letter), and turn it in by the final assessment for the unit (the final assessment may be a test, project, web quest, etc.). The 70 would be earned when all of the problems that were missed originally have been completed with the correct final answer. The student is only able to turn in the corrected assignment ONE time to try and earn the 70, so it needs to be done well the first time (no extra tries after turning it in to be regraded originally).