Eugenia B. Thomas K-8 Center
October 14 th , 2014
Principal: Ms. Barreira
Assistant Principal: Ms. Rivera

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Offers a well-balanced curricula, high academic standards, practical real world applications and international perspectives
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Emphasize the development of higher order thinking, including problem solving and creativity
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Cambridge is widely accepted among US colleges and universities through the international admissions departments

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New State Standards: 2014-2015 School Year

The Florida Standards
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Emphasize success in college and careers
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Prepare students with 21 st century skills
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Provide more rigorous content and application of knowledge
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Place emphasis on critical and analytical thinking
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Establish clear, consistent guidelines for instruction

The Florida Standards
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Language Arts Florida Standards (LAFS) and
Mathematics Florida Standards (MAFS) provide a clear set of goals and expectations
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Define what students should know and be able to do at each grade level – kindergarten through grade 12

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The Florida Standards
LAFS MAFS
Regular practice with complex  text & academic language
Deeper understanding of mathematical concepts speaking grounded in evidence from text
Builds habits of mind of productive mathematical thinkers
Real world applications 
Real-world applications
Build knowledge through content-rich text
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Modeling with pictures technology, graphs, manipulatives

The Florida Standards
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LAFS and MAFS will be assessed with the new
Florida Standards Assessments (FSA)
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Spring 2015 administration of middle school assessments will include:
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English Language Arts (ELA): Grades 6-8
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ELA Writing Component: Grades 6-8
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Mathematics: Grades 6-8
*Grades 6-8 will have Computer Based Testing for all of these assessments

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2008 Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) remain for science and social sciences
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Civics End-of-Course (EOC) Exam: Grade 7
This is a computer based test
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Science FCAT 2.0: Grade 8

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Spring 2015
Assessment
ELA – Writing Component
FSA – ELA
FSA – Mathematics
FCAT – Science
End-of-Course Exam
Testing Dates
March 2 – 13, 2015
April 13 – May 8, 2015
May 11 – June 5, 2015

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Depth of Knowledge
Grade/Course DOK Level 1 DOK Level 2 DOK Level 3
6-8 10% - 20% 60% - 80% 10% - 20%
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Test Length
Grade/Course Proposed Time Sessions Number of
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6-8 170 minutes 2 58-62

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Test Length
Grade Proposed Time
6-8 90 minutes

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Depth of Knowledge
Grade/Course DOK Level 1 DOK Level 2 DOK Level 3
6-8 10% - 20% 60% - 80% 10% - 20%
Algebra 1
Geometry
10% - 20% 60% - 80% 10% - 20%
10% - 20% 60% - 80% 10% - 20%
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Test Length
Grade/Course Proposed Time
6-8
Algebra
Geometry
180 minutes
180 minutes
180 minutes
Session
3
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Number of
Items
62-66
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64-68

The Florida Standards
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Read different types of books and informational text with your child
Ask your child to find answers to questions in the text of books, newspaper articles, manuals, etc.
Encourage your child to form and defend opinions by supporting these with facts, details and reasons from text
Discuss mathematics ideas with your child have them explain these to you using pictures, graphs, etc.
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Visit the Florida Standards Assessment online portal at: www.fsassessments.org
to become familiar with the new assessments.

Florida Standards
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Reporting Categories
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Key Ideas and Details
 Craft and Structure
 Integration of Knowledge and Idea
 Language and Editing
 Text-Based Writing

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A stimulus may consist of one or more texts. The texts may be informational or literary and can cover a wide array of topics. Multimedia elements may include audio presentations, slideshows, or graphical elements.
The length and complexity of texts should vary within each grade-level assessment.
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Grade Range of Number of Words
6 200 - 1100
300 - 1100
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Type of test questions:
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Hot Text
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Requires the student to select words or phrases from the text to answer questions using explicit information in the text as support.
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Requires the student to select an inference and then to select words or phrases from the text to support the inference [Two-Part
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Multiple Choice
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Requires the student to select multiple direct quotations or descriptions of textual evidence to support an explicit or implicit statement from the text.
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Open Response
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Requires the student to state a theme or central idea of the passage

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Reflect the relative complexity of thinking that a given benchmark demands of students.
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Low
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Moderate
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High

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The primary content for this course pertains to the principles, functions, and organization of government; the origins of the
American political system; the roles, rights, responsibilities of
United States citizens; and methods of active participation in our political system.
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In spring 2015, A student’s performance on the statewide administered Civics EOC Assessment must constitute 30 percent of the student’s final course grade. Baseline data will be collected to establish a minimum passing score on the Civics
EOC Assessment.

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Reporting Categories
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Origins and Purposes of Law and Government (25%)
 Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities of Citizens (25%)
 Government Policies and Political Processes (25%)
 Organization and Function of Government (25%)

Reporting
Category
Origins and
Purposes of
Law and
Government
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EOC Content Focus amendment
Anti-federalist antifederalist papers checks and balances civil law
Code of
Hammurabi coin and print money constitutional law
“common defense” common law colonial complaints constitution constitutional articles
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“domestic tranquility”
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Enlightenment
“establish justice” federalism
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“general welfare” juvenile law
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Magna Carta military law natural law ordain posterity preamble
(Constitution) precedent separation of powers social contract regulate
Roman Law
Shay’s rebellion statutory law tax trade unanimous viewpoint
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Vocabulary
Acts of
Parliament bicameral boycott colony common law compact consent of the governed delegates democracy electoral college endowed framers
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Independence) ratify repeal self-evident sovereign tariff taxation without representation three-fifths compromise unalienable

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Reporting
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Organization and Function of
Government
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EOC Content Focus
Act of Congress
Appeal appellate court appellate process approval of presidential appointments armed forces bail cabinet amendment article
(constitutional) checks and balances
Chief Justice circuit court coin and print money concurrent powers county court conference committee constitutional amendment process declare war delegated powers
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 enumerated powers federalism
Florida
Constitution
Florida
Declaration of
Rights
Florida Supreme
Court foreign policy impeach implied powers judge judicial review jurisdiction justice lawmaking process majority leader majority vote mayor minority leader naturalization laws necessary and proper clause obligations pardon preamble (US and
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District Court of
Appeals
Florida
Constitution) efficacy
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President pro
Tempore of the
Senate regulation of immigration regulation of trade reserved powers separation of powers services
Speaker of the
House standing committee special committee
Supremacy
Clause
Supreme law of the land (10 th amendment) statute steps in amending the
Florida
Constitution treaty trial court
US Circuit Court of Appeals
US District Court
US Supreme
Court
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Vocabulary acquittal affirmative action amend amnesty arraignment bill cloture
Congress court order defendant
District Attorney electoral college
Executive Branch executive order filibuster felony
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Key terms
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House of
Representatives
Indictment injunction joint resolution
Judicial Branch
Law Legislative
Branch line-item veto misdemeanor original jurisdiction voice vote pardon
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Senate
Senator special interest groups summary judgments veto writ of certiorari writ of habeas corpus

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Reporting
Category
Roles, Rights, and
Responsibilities of Citizens
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EOC Content Focus alien
Amendment
Process appellate process bail
Bill of Rights
Brown v. Board of Education
Bush v. Gore caucus citizen
Civil Rights Act
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Equal Rights amendment ex post facto law first amendment five freedoms
(amendment 1) forced internment
Gideon v.
Wainwright
Hazelwood v.
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1964
Civil Rights Act
1968 constitution constitutional amendments cruel and unusual punishment
District of
Columbia v
Heller double jeopardy due process eminent domain enumerated powers (9 th amendment) equal protection under the law
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Kuhlmeir immigrant
In Re Gault independent judiciary
Juries law of blood law of soil
Marbury v.
Madison
Miranda v.
Arizona naturalization laws (14 th amendment) naturalization process obligations pleading the fifth
Plessy v.
Ferguson
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 precedent privacy property rights resident responsibilities right to bear arms right to legal counsel rights roles search and seizure states’ rights
(10 th amendment) suffrage summary judgment summons rule of law selective service trial by jury
Tinker v. Des
Moines
US v. Nixon
Voting
Amendments
(13, 14, 15, 19,
24, 26)
Voting Rights
Act 1965
Vocabulary
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Key terms
(Recurring key terms)
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 docket felony grand jury (5 th amendment)
 illegal immigration immigration injunction international law internet law jurisprudence juvenile courts law legal system libel majority opinion
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Miranda
Rights (Rights of the accused) misdemeanor native-born citizens
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 naturalized citizen plaintiff political process prosecution poll tax public law racial profiling ratify representative reprieve resident alien segregation slander society summons testimony tyranny volunteerism writ of habeas corpus

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Reporting
Category
Government
Policies and
Political
Processes
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Absolute monarchy agencies alliances allies ambassadors anarchy
Bay of Pigs bias campaign communism
Communist
Party
Confederal system contemporary, diplomacy course of action (public policy)
Cuban Missile
Crisis debates
EOC Content Focus
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International
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Red Cross/Red
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Crescent
Iran Hostage
Crisis issue issue-based
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Korean War
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Party lobbying lobbyist
Mayor media military operation monarchy monitoring
Non-
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Democratic
Party diplomat direct democracy
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Organizations
(NGO),
North
American Free
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Trade
Agreement
(NAFTA)
North Atlantic
Treaty
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 political communicatio n political parties
Prime Minister propaganda proposal public policy qualifications representative democracy republic
Republican
Party
Secretary of
State socialism
Socialist Party special interest groups
State
Department symbolism terrorism trade ban treaty
Unitary system
United Nations
(UN)
United Nations
Children’s
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Vocabulary absentee ballot apathy assessor ballot
Board of
Commissioner s candidate censorship city charter city council city government commission coroner county county clerk county manager dictatorship
District Attorney elector
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Key terms
(Recurring key terms)
 electoral college electronic
 exit poll home rule incorporate incumbent libel mass media metropolitan area national committee media nominated ordinance plank platform precinct print media public agenda
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 public opinion recall school district sheriff slander special district strong mayor system superintendent totalitarianism town hall meetings township two-party system weak mayor system winner-takeall system

How does government affect our lives?
What does it mean to be a good citizen?
Why are natural rights considered “Enlightened” ideas?
How do you know that our democratic ideals were influenced by John Locke and Montesquieu?
Why were having different perspectives important when writing the U.S. Constitution?
How do political parties affect society today?
Why is it necessary to have different political ideologies?
Why are forms of political communication (bias/propaganda) both harmful and useful?
How do citizens, both individually and collectively, influence government?
How is the organization of the U.S. Constitution unique?
How are the roles and responsibilities interconnected among the three branches of government?
How do key character traits or expectations of government leaders differ among the branches?
How has/does the amendment process enable/enabled society to grow and evolve?
How is the value that a society places on individual rights reflected in that society’s government?
How does the rule of law remain constant through changes and growth in society?
How does a landmark case reflect the social, political, economic and cultural aspects of that period in time?
Why is federalism important when limiting the power of government?
How has the US Constitution influenced to formation of the Florida Constitution?
How can public policy be used to improve society?
What motivates the formation of different political systems and forms of government?
How does the U.S. involvement in international conflicts and organizations impact its domestic policy?
How does global interdependence influence US foreign policy?
Why are natural rights considered “Enlightened” ideas?
How do you know that our democratic ideals were influenced by John Locke and Montesquieu?
Why were having different perspectives important when writing the U.S. Constitution?
How is the organization of the U.S. Constitution unique?
How does the rule of law remain constant through changes and growth in society?
How are the roles and responsibilities interconnected among the three branches of government?
How do key character traits or expectations of government leaders differ among the branches?
How has/does the amendment process enable/enabled society to grow and evolve?

In the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, what is the meaning of the phrase “We the People’ ?
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The people express their will through political parties.
The people express their will by directly creating laws.
Government receives taxes from the people and exist to support them.
Government receives its power from the people and exists to serve them.

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Civics
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This website will introduce you to programs, materials and partnerships
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 http://www.flrea.org
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Also, look at NGSSS - Social Studies Pacing Guides, find seventh grade, then click on Year at a Glance.
http://socialsciences.dadeschools.net/pacingguides.asp

Florida Standards
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Mathematical Practices
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Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
Reason abstractly and quantitatively
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
Model with mathematics
Use appropriate tools strategically
Attend to precision
Look for and make use of structure
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

RP
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SP
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Ratio & Propositional Relationships
Expressions & Equations
Geometry
Statistics & Probability
The Number System
Functions

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Grade 6 NO CALCULATORS
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Grade 7 & 8 – Scientific Calculators
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Algebra1 & Geometry – Scientific Calculators

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Questions are presented in real-world contexts or related to real-world situations
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Equation Response
Multiple Choice Response
Multi-Select Response
Table Response
Matching Item Response
Graphic Response — Drag and Drop
Graphic Response — Drawing, Drag and Drop
Graphic Response — Hot Spot
Natural Language Response

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Is a guide for teachers/students which engage them in higher more rigors levels of thinking and reasoning
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Teacher models the questioning and analyzing process depicted on the task cards and guides the math discussions making sure all of the students are engaged and participating.

Rational Numbers
Integers
– 3
Whole Numbers
0
Natural Numbers
Irrational Numbers
π

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Mathematics
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Online tutorial video animations (connected.com)
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Reflex (reflexmath.com)
 iReady
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Ensure that your child is completing their home learning assignments – practice and repetition is critical in Math!

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Attendance
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Due to block schedule (1 absence = 2 absences)
When absent a note must be submitted within 3 days
Excessive tardiness will result in student not attending extracurricular activities.
Behavior Contract
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Participation in Activities/Field Trips may be denied for any of the following:
 D or F in conduct in any class on the report card (beginning August 2014)
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Indoor/Outdoor Suspension (beginning August 2014)
3 or more Detentions
Poor Attendance (10 or more unexcused absences and/or tardies)
Textbooks/Library are not returned before the end of the school year activities
Outstanding balances such a lunch, media and/or textbook fines
Uniforms
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Proper Uniform is mandatory. Formal Monday’s & Spirit Shirt Friday
Mandatory Spirit Shirt for Activities/Fieldtrips
Misc
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Ear Buds (computer testing and software use)
Mandatory Agendas (Office, Restroom & Hallway)

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Algebra 1 parents, please remain seated

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The Florida EOC Assessments are a part of the
Florida's Standards for the purpose of increasing student achievement and improving college and career readiness. EOCs will be computer-based, criterion-referenced assessments that measure the
Mathematics Florida Standards for specific highschool level courses, as outlined in the course description. The first assessment to begin the transition to end-of-course testing in Florida is the
Algebra 1 EOC.

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Questions are presented in real-world contexts or related to real-world situations
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Types of test items
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Equation Response
Multiple Choice Response
Multi-Select Response
Table Response
Simulation Response
Matching Item Response
Selectable Text Response
Moveable Text Response
Graphic Response — Drag and Drop
Graphic Response — Hot Spot
Natural Language Response

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The Florida EOC Assessments are a part of the
Florida's Standards for the purpose of increasing student achievement and improving college and career readiness. EOCs will be computer-based, criterion-referenced assessments that measure the
Mathematics Florida Standards for specific highschool level courses, as outlined in the course description.

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Questions are presented in real-world contexts or related to real-world situations
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Types of test items
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Equation Response
Multiple Choice Response
Multi-Select Response
Simulation Response
Hot Text Response
Selectable Text Response
Moveable Text Response
Graphic Response — Drag and Drop
Graphic Response — Hot Spot
Natural Language Response