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This document provides an overview of the Pre-AP Chemistry course. It outlines the course goals, required materials, grading policy, make-up work policy, academic honesty policy, class rules, and tutorial schedule. The course goals are for students to use scientific processes to conduct investigations and analyze energy and matter transformations. The grading policy weights formative assessments at 30% and summative assessments at 70% of the six-weeks grade. Late work is not accepted and make-up work from unexcused absences is capped at 70%.

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Pre-AP Chemistry Course Overview: Alissa - Nevin@dsisdtx - Us Matt - Simpson@dsisdtx - Us

This document provides an overview of the Pre-AP Chemistry course. It outlines the course goals, required materials, grading policy, make-up work policy, academic honesty policy, class rules, and tutorial schedule. The course goals are for students to use scientific processes to conduct investigations and analyze energy and matter transformations. The grading policy weights formative assessments at 30% and summative assessments at 70% of the six-weeks grade. Late work is not accepted and make-up work from unexcused absences is capped at 70%.

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Pre-AP Chemistry Course Overview

Alissa Nevin Matt Simpson


D118 D122
512-858-3187 512-858-3188
[email protected] [email protected]

Course Goals
The student will use scientific processes to conduct investigations, and use critical thinking skills in
doing so. The student will identify measure, analyze, and summarize scientific concepts such as the
characteristics of energy and matter transformations.

Text Chemistry: Matter & Change, McGraw-Hill Education, 2015

Required Materials
Ruled notebook paper, Pen (black and/or blue ink), Pencil, 3-ring binder and dividers, lab notebook,
colored pencils, scientific calculator, earbuds

Late Work
Late work is UNACCEPTABLE!!!! Assigned work must be turned in by the due date. Any late
assignments may be turned in by 9:00 am the following school day, and will suffer a 20 point penalty.

Grading Policy
The six weeks grade shall be calculated based on a combination of summative and formative
assessments. Formative assessments will be used to assess Process Standards. Summative assessments will be
used to assess Content Standards.
Formative grades will count for 30% of the six weeks grade.
Summative grades will count for 70% of the six weeks grade.

Make-up Work
For each day of excused absence, one day will be given for work to be made up. If an assignment was
due on the day of absence, it is due before the bell rings on the day you return to class. Remember, no late work
is accepted! Work made up for unexcused absences can only be given a maximum of 70% (this includes labs,
quizzes and tests). Labs and quizzes must be made up before or after school following the absence. No makeup
work will be given during class. It is all to be done outside of class.

Academic Honesty
If a student is caught cheating on tests, homework, or labs the student will receive a zero on that
assignment and their parents will be called or e-mailed explaining the situation. Students will also be referred to
the office and will receive 3 days of In-School Suspension. Doing your work on your own will help you better
understand the material, and it’s not worth getting a lower grade and being in trouble with your parents. In other
words, don’t cheat! The following is the school policy regarding academic dishonesty:
What it is – Plagiarism is a form of academic dishonesty in which you use other people’s words or ideas
(pictures, art, charts, graphs, computations, scientific data, music, etc.) as your own by failing to
credit the others at all or by improperly crediting them. If you use someone else’s exact words,
you must put quotation marks around them and give the person credit by revealing the source in
a citation. Even if you revise, rearrange, or paraphrase the words of others or just use their
ideas, you still must give them credit instead of pretending the words or ideas are your own.
Your teachers will instruct you how to properly credit your sources.
While some plagiarism is obviously intentional and some might be considered unintentional
(missing or improper citation due to carelessness, often because of hurrying to do an assignment
at the last minute), both types are still subject to the same penalties.

Cheating--Plagiarism--Academic Dishonesty (Student Handbook)


Academic dishonesty includes cheating or copying the work of another student, plagiarism, and unauthorized
communication between students during an examination. The determination that a student has engaged in
academic dishonesty will be based on the judgment of the classroom teacher or other supervising professional
employee, taking into consideration written materials, observation, or information from students. A student
found to have engaged in academic dishonesty will be subject to disciplinary penalties per the SCC [two days],
as well as, academic penalties. Teachers who have reason to believe a student has engaged in cheating or
academic dishonesty will assign a zero for the work in question.

IMPORTANT!Unless I specifically tell you that you may work with other students on an assignment, you are
expected to work on all assignments by yourself, using only your own thoughts, ideas, and reasoning.

Class Rules
I expect my students to abide by four very simple rules in my classroom:
Be Polite, Prepared, Punctual and Productive.
This involves arriving to class on time with all necessary materials, respecting other people (including the
teacher) and their property, and giving their best effort. Any infractions will result in a warning for the first
time, before school detention and call home to the parents for the second time, and a referral to the Assistant
Principal after that.
Students will also be expected to follow all school rules and arrive on time to class.

Nondiscrimination policy
Dripping Springs Independent School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national
origin, age sex, or disability in its employment, practices, activities and programs.

El districto independiente de la escuela de Dripping Springs no discrimina en base de la raza, del color,
del origen nacional, de la edad, del sexo, o de la inhabilidad en su empleo, practicas, actividades y programas.

Tutorials
All tutorials will be held before school from 8:20-8:50.

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