FRENCH CLASS EXPECTATIONS AND POINTS

Material

• You are expected to have all of your French notes, paper, pencil, and book if you have one, everyday in class.

Notes

• You are expected to organize your notes thoroughly throughout the year. You will have pop quizzes on your notes regularly.

Notes

• You are expected to keep everything from the class (handout, notes, exercises, tests, quizzes, quotes, etc.) unless instructor says draft can be recycled.

XC• Extra credits are randomly offered, never on

demand.• You take the opportunity or not.• Mostly available through French Club.

Grades• Participation in class ► 20 % of the semester’s

grade• You can lose points by not applying rules like

being tardy, chatting and/or not listening, chewing, missing material etc. The students can check their participation grade weekly or bi-weekly.

Grades

• Writing (essay, grammar) ►15%

Grades• Reading and listening comprehension

►12%• Usually done in class, if absent, it is the

student’s responsibility to take appointment to make up within deadline. (see absences)

Grades

• Oral ►15%• (presentation/discussion/pronunciation)

Grades

• Culture and projects ► 8%

Grades

• Vocabulary / conjugations ► 10%

Grades

• Final exam and mid-term ► 20 %

Grades

• Closure and bell work are graded at teacher’s discretion, unexcused tardy will earn a « 0 » for graded bell works.

NO Chewing gum

• Students will have to clean eventual gums underneath desk or on the floor during passing if chewing, and will lose participation points.

NO electronics• First offense ► minus 5 on the next graded assignment

– loss of participation points• Second offense and next ► consequences of first

offense + teacher keeps phone/Ipod/Ipad… locked in « la prison des appareils électroniques » for 24

hours/week-end (if used on Friday).

If student misses class• He must go online and check the « if you were

absent » link to make up work within the deadline.

• Student can make up work ONLY if the absence is excused.

• Absent for one day► One day to make up• Absent for 2 days ►Two days to make up• Etc…• More time offered only on parents request by

phone call placed within deadline.

• It is likely that the student will not pass the class if he is absent many times and if he does not make up work.

If student misses class

Absences and tardies

• AHS wide rule

• A student who is late more than five minutes will be marked absent and will have to make up time to get credit and graduate.

Raise your hand / Lève la main

• Before talking

Do not leave any trash behind

No food or drink during instruction

Water only is tolerated

Two bathroom trips allowed per quarter and per students

• If the student does not use the bathroom, he earns 10 points of extra credit at the end of the quarter.

• Before going to the bathroom, the student will give his phone to the teacher.

Plagiarism/Translator/Cheating• Will result in phone call to parent, a 0 and no

extra credit possibility until the end of the year.

In presence of a substitute• Misbehavior or lack of work from a student when the

class is covered by a substitute will automatically result in a referral, loss of participation points, and no extra credit until the end of the year.

• Exceptional behavior might result in extra credit or prize.

Quiz• What happens if I cheat?• _____________________________• What happens if I chew?• _____________________________• What do I do if I miss school?• ______________________________• What happens if I text in class for the second time?• ______________________________• What is the bathroom rule?• ______________________________

Signature

• French class rules read and approved• Student name (print)_______________• Student period _____________

• Parent signature_____________• Parent signature_____________

• Student signature_____________