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