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COURSE SELECTION
& SCHEDULING 2019-2020 Eighth Grade
PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY
You must complete one of these courses in order
to graduate from high school:
Business Dynamics / PFL
Visual Computer Programming / PFL
Word & Info Processing / PFL
PFL is being offered in the summer at FLHS for
CURRENT high school students. Keep this in mind
as an option once you are in the high school.
CAREER & ART ELECTIVES
Engineering & Design
Woods Technology 1
American Musical Theatre
Applied Art
Concert Choir
Drama 1
Fashion/Interior Design
Orchestra
Symphonic Band
Career/VoTech Visual/Performing Arts
You must complete one course from each of these Elective
Categories to graduate from high school. More options become
available in each category as you progress through high school.
ART SEMESTER COURSES
Semester 1
Studio Skills
Drawing
Pottery
Semester 2
Computer Graphics
Painting
Ceramics
You can mix and match, choose one for each semester:
MUSIC COURSES
Chorus occurs BEFORE
school from 7:05 – 7:50 am
Mondays & Wednesdays
You must select this course
IN ADDITION to your
regular elective
Band occurs AFTER school
from 2:40-3:25 pm
Monday-Friday
You must select this course
IN ADDITION to your
regular elective
Chorus Band
Period Course / Subject Days per Week
1 English everyday
2 Math everyday
3 Science everyday
4 History/ Social Studies everyday
5 Lunch (additional elective) everyday
6 Physical Education / Health everyday
7 World Language everyday
8 ELECTIVE everyday
TYPICAL 9TH GRADE SCHEDULE
DEVELOP GOOD STUDY HABITS
High school will be much less stressful when you do well in your classes
Where you study is important
Bring everything you need, nothing you don’t
Know what the expectations are for the class
BE ORGANIZED
Keep separate binders or folders for
each class
Get a planner and write down all your
homework assignments with the due
dates
A “to do” list will make it much easier
to remember all of your assignments
Plan to do a bit of homework every
night…doing it all at once is too
stressful
DO NOT PROCRASTINATE Do school work as soon as possible and set
aside time each day after school to finish
up with that day’s assignments.
The sooner you get things done, the more
time you will have to do things you enjoy.
GET GOOD GRADES
The grades you earn 9-12th grades are included your transcript.
Your transcript is the most important it is a reflection of how hard you worked in High School.
An impressive Grade Point Average (GPA) will help you get into the college of your choice.
GRADING SYSTEM GRADE POINT AVERAGE (GPA)
Grade Range Academic/
CP
Hono
rs
AP
A 94-100 4.0 4.6 5
A- 90-93 3.7 4.3 4.7
B+ 87-89 3.3 3.9 4.3
B 83-86 3.0 3.6 4
B- 80-82 2.7 3.3 3.7
C+ 77-79 2.3 2.5 2.7
C 73-76 2.0 2.0 2.0
C- 70-72 1.7 1.7 1.7
D 65-69 1.0 1.0 1.0
F 64 or
Below
0 0 0
ATTENDANCE POLICY
Daily attendance is required and expected. Any student, who exceeds fourteen (14) absences (7 days from a semester course), may be denied credit in that course. Required courses must be repeated.
Students who are more than 20 minutes late to class will be considered absent from that class. Since it is the teacher’s grade book attendance which is used as a matter of record to determine loss of course credit, it is imperative that students check with their classroom teachers to ensure that absences and tardies are not negatively impacting on course credit.
MAKING YOUR 9TH
GRADE SCHEDULE
GENESIS PORTAL WILL BE OPEN:
February 1st- February 8th
Course Requests must be submitted through the
Parent Portal – Student accounts will not have access
Requests will not be accepted online after February
8th
Once you submit your requests, you will not be able
to log back in to make changes
PROCEDURE
Log into the Genesis Parent Portal at:
http://parents.fairlawnschools.org
Select the child who will be entering grades 9, 10,
11 or 12
Click the “Scheduling” tab, then the “Requests”
tab.
We recommend keeping a tab on your internet browser open with the
2019-2020 Course Prerequisites, which can be found at:
http://www.flhs.org/index.php/courses-scheduling
PROCEDURE
All your Core
Academic subject
courses will be
selected for you based
on current placement
and grades.
You will only select
your:
World Language
Elective
PROCEDURE
PROCEDURE
Electives are listed within each
subject area
Please set a PRIORITY (1, 2, 3) to
rank your elective requests
Although the system will allow you to
select Priority 1 for electives in
different subject areas, you must only
choose one Priority 1, one Priority 2
and one Priority 3.
PROCEDURE You will select one elective and two alternates
PROCEDURE
If you want to delete a course request, click the
Garbage Can icon to the right of it on the
“Requests” tab.
PROCEDURE On the “Requests” page, click the green “Submit”
button (top of screen) when you are ready to submit your requests
You must type the word “SUBMIT” in the pop up box to finalize your request
Once you submit your requests they will be locked and changes can only be made with your guidance counselor.
REVIEW You will choose a total of THREE (3) courses
1 World Language Choose the language you would like to study in high school.
Genesis will only allow you to choose level 1, but you will be
placed into the appropriate level by your counselor later.
3 electives – you will only have one of these in your
final schedule
Priority 1
Priority 2
Priority 3
Lunch will be automatically included
REVIEW
Scheduling Request Portal is open from February
1st – February 8th
Only Parent accounts can access the Scheduling
Section
Choose 1 World Language
Choose 3 electives, prioritize 1-3
You will only have one elective on your final schedule
CHOOSE WISELY!
No changes will be made after March 22nd
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