What can you do to help your
child have a successful year?
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Check your student’s agenda or my website regularly
to make sure your student’s assignments are being
completed, and that test preparation is taking place.
Check your child’s backpack for organization and
materials.
Check to make sure your student has completed
assignments, and that they are in their backpack,
ready to turn in.
Check your students’ grade regularly through Power
School to make sure they are not missing any work.
Any “0” means the assignment was not turned in.
They can turn the assignment in with a late pass.
Should you edit your child’s
writing and homework?
Please do not change your child’s writing. Guide
them, and give them ideas and feedback, but
any changes should be made with their own
words. If you make any changes, I will not be
able to determine your child’s abilities and
address their weaknesses.
 Final copies of essays or writing assignments
can be typed in 12 pt, Times New Roman font,
double spaced, and in black ink.
 Any handwritten final copies should be done in
blue or black ink, skipping lines.
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Grades
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Grades will be updated about twice per week.
If there is a “0,” that means the assignment was not
turned in.
If a student is absent, they have two days per day absent
to make up any work or tests they may have missed.
It is the student’s responsibility to make up any work that
they missed due to an absence.
Students are to write their assignments in their agenda
daily, and homework is posted on my website as it is
assigned.
Students were given 2 late passes for this trimester, and
will be given 1 late pass per subsequent trimesters. Late
work will not be accepted without a pass.
Powerschool for Parents
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SMS School Code:
DRMT
Common Core
Focuses on students developing critical thinking skills –How students get to
an answer.
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Skill Overview:
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Think –Support answers, ideas, claims with evidence – “prove it”
Express – effectively communicate thinking orally and in writing
Collaborate – Work with others to broaden thinking
Innovate – Apply thinking to a new challenge
Developed Through:
 Reading – navigate informational text, using both primary and
secondary sources
 Vocabulary –develop academic language, elevate expressive
language, build comprehension of complex text
 Writing – constructing argumentative essays and paragraphs,
using various sources as evidence to support thesis.
What will we be doing this year?
Studying Medieval World History from the
Fall of Rome through the Enlightenment.
 Use the Holt Medieval World History
Textbook as a tool for background
information
 Learning to Source, Corroborate,
Contextualize, and Closely Read various
primary and secondary source pieces to
develop strong evidence to support ideas.
 Develop an understanding of Geography
and how it affects how and where people
live.
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Thank you for coming tonight!
Email is the best way to reach me if
you want to be answered quickly.
Amarcoux@fcusd.org