Be ready to learn. You need to have a working pencil, an eraser, (it can be on your pencil), your class folder and your Chromebook with you every class.
Have a good attitude.
Cell phones and all music devices must be turned off during class. All earbuds must be out of your ears.
Chromebooks can only be out with permission and only for a specific, announced activity.
Take care of classroom equipment and materials
Do the work that is assigned, whether it is homework or classwork
We work from bell to bell. You many only stop working and pack up when you hear the dismissal bell. All class rules apply from bell to bell.
This classroom is a professional, respectful, working environment.
Communicate positively. Use language that is school appropriate.
Wait your turn to talk. Raise your hand when you have something to say or ask during a lesson, and stay on topic when you talk.
Act professionally at all times
Sit up through the entire class.
When any adult is talking to the class, you need to show them you are listening. You do this by sitting all the way up, tracking them with your eyes and not talking.
Everyone in this class will make mistakes; that is how people learn. You must treat everyone in this class with respect, even when they make mistakes.
Praise people when they do something good.
Help others who are having trouble. Doing someone’s work for them is not helping.
If you are called on to answer a question, try your best to answer.
We follow the Carson High honor code in Geometry.
Do your own work
Tell the truth
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I enforce all Carson High School policies in class, including the dress code and tardy policy.
They are listed in your student handbook.
Typical misbehavior and consequences
You are rude or annoying to any adult or other student in class. You act disrespectfully or unprofessionally.
Handwritten letter of apology, (one paragraph), due next class period
Your phone rings or you are using it during class time, even to “check the time”. You are listening to music during class time.
I take your phone or music device. You may retrieve it at the end of the school day.
You are wasting class time or causing other students or any adult to waste class time. You are doing something that prevents you or others from learning.
All three: handwritten letter of apology, (one paragraph), due next class period and call or email home to parent. Loss of daily participation grade.
Your annoying or disruptive behavior continues, or you continue to waste class time. You continue to act disrespectfully or unprofessionally.
All four: Lunch detention with me; another handwritten letter of apology, (three paragraphs), due the next class period; and another parent call or email. Loss of daily participation grade.
Your annoying or disruptive behavior still continues, or you continue to still waste class time. You still continue to act disrespectfully or unprofessionally.
Both: Dean referral, parent conference required
You cheat in any way. This includes allowing someone to cheat using your work.
All three: academic referral and parent call. Everyone knowingly involved receives a zero on the work. This grade cannot be made up.
You refuse to complete the consequence you earned.
Both: Dean referral and parent conference.
You endanger yourself or others. You cause physical or emotional harm to another person in class. You have purposely chosen to disrupt the class.