Teacher: June Mitsuhashi
E-mail : june.mitsuhashi@asfg.mx
Webpage : http://portal.asfg.mx/hs/june.mitsuhashi/default.aspx
Office hours: 2:30 – 3:00 pm except Wednesdays, or by appointment.
Course Overview: Students will continue to develop and strengthen their skills in algebra throughout the year as they study geometry. In geometry, students will develop spatial sense and logical thinking skills through studies of shapes and their relationships. Honors Geometry differs from College
Preparatory Geometry in that the former provides a more extensive algebra review (includes factoring), emphasizes proof and employs problems of a higher level of difficulty. The syllabus provided below is only a rough guide, and may be modified depending on the aptitude and needs of the class.
Unit 1: Course Introduction and Algebra Review
Unit 2: Reasoning and Proof
Unit 3: Basics of Geometry
Unit 4: Perpendicular and Parallel Lines
Unit 5: Congruent Triangles
1 st Semester Review
Unit 6: Properties of Triangles
Unit 7: Constructions and Triangles
Unit 8: Similarity
Unit 9: Right Triangles and Trigonometry
Unit 10: Review for Enlace Examination
Unit 11: Quadrilaterals
Unit 12: Circles
Unit 13: Area and Perimeter
Unit 14: Surface area and Volume
2nd Semester Review
3 weeks
2 weeks
3 weeks
4 weeks
2 weeks
2 days
1 week
2 weeks
3 weeks
4 weeks
1 week
2 weeks
1 week
1 week
1 week
2 days
Final Grade Calculation: Your final course grade will be calculated as the average of your two semester grades.
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Semester Grade Calculation: Your semester grade will be calculated from your two quarter grades and your final semester exam grade according to:
Aspect
1st quarter grade
2nd quarter grade
Weight
40%
40%
Final semester exam 20%
Quarter Grade Calculation: Your 2nd and 4th quarter grades will be calculated from the following aspects with the indicated weights:
Aspect
Tests
Quizzes
Homework Quizzes
Weight
40%
15%
15%
Projects 20%
Participation/Attitude 10%
Your 1 st and 3rd quarter grades will be calculated differently than the other quarter grades due to the Summer Assignment Test and Week Without Walls
(WWW). Each of these evaluations counts as 10% of your quarter grade.
Thus, the 1 st and 3rd quarter grades will be calculated as:
Aspect
Tests
Quizzes
Homework Quizzes
Projects
Participation/Attitude
Summer Assignment Test or
Week Without Walls (WWW)
Weight
36%
13.5%
13.5%
18%
9%
10%
N.B. It is the student’s responsibility to save all returned graded material in case it is needed to settle a grade dispute later.
Exemption from Semester Final Examination: It is not possible for a student in
Honors Geometry to exempt a semester final examination.
Tests: There will be two tests per quarter.
Quizzes: There are typically two quizzes per quarter.
Homework: Homework will be assigned daily and is to be done in the
Homework Notebook. The more challenging problems will be solved on the
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board at the beginning of the next class as necessary. Questions will also be answered; although questions will only be taken from students who can provide written documentation that they have attempted the relevant problem. Although time does not permit us to work out all homework problems in full, the “correct” answers to all assigned problems will always be given.
Homework Quizzes: There will be a Homework Quiz each week (usually on
Friday) to determine whether students truly understand the homework they have done. These quizzes are of short duration (approximately 15 minutes) and will consist of several homework exercises taken from the prior week.
The difference between the problems on the Homework Quiz and the problems assigned as homework will be minimal (e.g. different numbers/format).
Projects: There will be one project per quarter, the details of which shall be announced at a later date.
Participation/Attitude: This is a subjective grade given on the basis of a student’s participation, attitude, conduct and ability to follow instructions. A student may also receive a low participation/conduct grade (down to a
“zero”) if he or she has abysmal Test, Quiz or Homework Quiz grades and it can be shown on review of their Homework Notebook that they do not do the daily homework on a regular basis.
Materials: Each day each student will need: a writing utensil (preferably a pencil), an eraser, a pencil sharpener.
one spiral-bound notebook, 8 1/2” x 11”, graph-paper type, for doing homework. “Honors Geometry Homework Notebook” should be written prominently outside the front cover along with your full name (no nicknames and period. Only Honors Geometry homework should be in this notebook. one spiral-bound notebook, 8 1/2” x 11”, graph-paper type, for lecture notes. “Honors Geometry Lecture Notebook” should be written prominently outside the front cover along with your full name (no nicknames) and period.
Only Honors Geometry lecture notes should be in this notebook.
a TI-89 graphing calculator (cost: 130-250 USD) a textbook (this will be loaned to the student for the year) a ruler, protractor and a compass. Do not buy these materials until your teacher discusses how to buy geometry equipment.
approximately 400 pesos’ worth of additional project materials/supplies “ondemand”
Sharing of implements: Implements of any kind (TI-89 calculators, pencils, erasers, sharpeners, rulers, etc.) are never shared between students.
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Ti-89 Calculators: Each student is obliged to use their own TI-89 calculator.
Even brothers and sisters must not share TI-89’s. Their first and last name must be engraved in the appropriate place on the back of the calculator (not the calculator case) and the calculator’s serial number will be logged by the teacher. To discourage theft and the loaning of calculators, any calculator found with a defaced serial number or nameplate will be confiscated by your teacher. The TI-89 is a powerful piece of technology and can greatly facilitate student learning. Unfortunately, in the past, some students have attempted to use the calculator to gain an unfair academic advantage over their peers by storing formulas, exam answers, unauthorized software or entire problem solutions on them for use during an exam or quiz. The use of the calculator in this manner is in violation of the
Intellectual Integrity policy contained in the ASFG Parent-Teacher
Handbook and will not be tolerated. It is important to understand that the person using the portable technology is responsible for ensuring that the device is not being used inappropriately. If a student is found to be using a
TI-89 calculator in an unauthorized manner, then the user will be referred for academic dishonesty, receive a “zero” on the evaluation, and will lose the right to use the TI-89 on all subsequent evaluations for the remainder of the
academic year. The violating student will have the right to use a standard scientific calculator on these subsequent evaluations, however.
Each student should review the handout, How to clear a TI-89 calculator, to be sure he or she knows how to clear the calculator adequately. For convenience, this procedure is also prominently displayed in the geometry classroom.
Course expectations
 Respect your teacher, classmates, school and yourself. Use given names, not nicknames.
 Take lecture notes in your Lecture Notebook each day and keep them in a dated, chronological, complete and orderly manner. If you miss class, get the lecture notes from a colleague. If something is written on the board by your teacher, it should be in your math notebook. To facilitate note-taking, you can download skeleton notes of upcoming lectures, print them out and paste them into your notebook page-by-page to use as a guide. This can be especially helpful when there are many figures to draw.
 Be responsible by being prepared, studying conscientiously and by doing your homework every night.
 Be honest with yourself and everyone else. Specifically, never discuss or ask about the content of a homework quiz, quiz, test or semester final examination (globally referred to as evaluations) with a
colleague until the evaluation has been returned to you. If you do, and it can be proven or logically inferred, you will be referred to the
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Assistant Principal for academic dishonesty and given a "zero" on the evaluation.
 Do your best at all times.
 Learn and enjoy math.
Classroom Policies and Procedures: These rules are designed to maximize learning efficiency. Please follow them.
 Bring your math notebooks (Homework Notebook and Lecture
Notebook), textbook, calculator, ruler, protractor and compass to class every day. If a student does not do this, he or she may be either warned, marked tardy or absent and/or referred to the office at the teacher’s discretion.
 A student is tardy if he or she is not sitting attentively in his or her assigned seat doing the "Do Now" when the bell rings.
 If a student is tardy, he or she must write their name legibly on the extreme right portion of the whiteboard before sitting down so that your teacher can keep an accurate record. If this isn’t done, the
tardy will be converted to an absence.
 Class time is a time shared by the teacher with all students. It is not an appropriate time to discuss personal issues such as grades, individual makeup work or upcoming travel plans. Please use recesses and office hours after school to discuss these situations with your teacher.
 No talking is allowed while a new topic or concept is being covered.
 No electronic devices (except your TI-89 calculator) should be visible or audible in class. These include cellular telephones, laptop computers, IPods, PDA’s, etc.
 No eating in class. Gum-chewing is OK as long as it is done prudently.
 Drinking from plastic containers with a firmly-attached top is permitted as long as clean-up is adequate (No finger-pointing!). If your teacher picks up student trash twice, this privilege is lost.
 No make-up/mirrors should be visible.
 No visitors.
 Never touch your teacher’s computers without permission.
 There is never free time in this class to “chill” or chat with friends. If you finish the task at hand, then do your homework, help someone, prepare for the next day’s lesson, or ask your teacher for a challenge problem.
 Unless there are extreme circumstances, you may leave class on an excused basis for five (5) minutes twice a quarter at the teacher’s discretion. There are no "exit passes."
 Nurse passes are generated by the interested student. On a blank piece of paper write legibly “Nurse Pass” at the top of the page followed by your name, date and time, and then discreetly hand it to your teacher for her signature.
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 Disciplinary problems are generally handled in a graded fashion: verbal warning, “Take Five” followed by a teacher-student conference, call to parents and/or office referral. Serious disciplinary situations usually involve administration who has the options of employing probation, suspension and expulsion.
 Cheating, including plagiarism will not be tolerated (If you need a primer on plagiarism, see http://library.asfg.mx/plagiarism.html
).
 Remember that your teacher excuses you from the classroom, not the bell.
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