Advanced Placement Student Evaluation - (Also see Attendance Policy)
Grading is accumulative over the semester. All assignments given are noted
and/or evaluated. The grade depends on the evaluation of the student's response
in aggregate for the following areas:
Homework - promptness, completeness, originality. Missing 30% of assignments
is an automatic C in homework.
Class participation - eagerness to contribute, willingness to risk
ideas, frequency of response or verbal contribution to the general class,
and observed effectiveness in working with other students or within a small
group.
Objective tests - correctness, completeness, competence.
Writing - the writing must show evidence of growth in correctness,
clarity, organization, and rhetorical expression.
Reading - students must show evidence of having read long works, both
in-class study and out-of-class study.
A = excellent in ALL categories
B = very good in SOME categories, excellent in SOME categories, OR very good
in ALL categories.
C = good in ALL categories, OR excellent in one and very good in one or two
and good in the rest.
D = needs improvement in several categories
F = needs improvement in MOST categories, or LACK OF EFFORT.
Late work:
Daily work cannot be submitted late under any circumstances other than the most extreme and compelling. Use a study-buddy system to insure daily work is stamped appropriately. Unstamped work will not be counted toward the grade.
Neither essays nor junior project or junior project progress reports can be turned in late even under the most compelling humanitarian circumstances since they are assigned well in advance and planning and project management should be in effect. However, keeping pace with the real world, two times during the year a student may exercise an option to submit these assignments no more than two school days late unless such lateness spans from the end of one marking period to the beginning of the next. A student may submit book responses for credit during a semester upon agreement with the teacher, but no marking period grade will be changed though the semester grade may be impacted.
Neither the junior project paper senior literary paper can be turned in late.
Submittal of work: Projects, essays and papers reading responses are
due by the end of the day specified which is defined as the time Mr. Jollymore
leaves Skyline not to return until the following morning. Emailed reports
are due in his email box no later than 11:59 PM on the due date. Plagiarized
reports will receive a failing grade of zero; always protect yourself by giving
credit to borrowings. Of course, all assignments must be submitted at the
beginning of the class period.
At best, grading is subjective work. Students are expected to defend and promote their work and seek the highest grade attainable BASED on the MERIT of the work. But other considerations should not come into the picture, and, though they are often presented, they have no affect on the grade. Therefore, concerns such as eligibility for activities, parental expectations, employment schedule, social schedule, the health of family, trips scheduled during class time and other, similar, events and situations cannot not affect the grade. No work made up or submitted after the grade book closes for a marking period will be posted to the book.
Quality of work: The presentation of work is important. Written assignments
may be required to be submitted via email or in printed form and, thus, will
be legible. Timed writing in class will produce less ascetically pleasing
forms, but this will be tolerated. Spell check when available must always
be used. Standard headings that must be used are as follows:
Student Name
Skyline Class Period Number
Assignment Name
Date completed
Signature of Student
