Grading System
Expectations
Units this Year
Abbreviations
Content Questions
100

Parent Vue

How do parent's monitor student progress online?

100

Students should visit here to check their grade, find assignments, review for tests and MORE.

What is myMCPS?

100

The Impact of Economics in Ancient and Modern China

What is the main focus of Unit 2?

100

G.H. stands for this.

What is Global Humanitiesl?

100
This civilization extended along the Nile river.
What is Egypt?
200

This category is 10% of the students' grade and is graded for completion (versus correctness), and can include homework or classwork.

What is the Practice/Preparation  category?

200

Students should write down their daily assignments for each class here.

What is the student planner?

200

Cultural Systems of the First Millennium and Today (Religion and Culture)

What is Unit 4

200

A student will have a Z or zero "0" for a grade on Synergy it means this.

What happens when a student does not submit an assignment by the due date? 

200
The foundations of democracy were rooted in this civilization.
What is Greece?
300

This category makes up 90% of students' grade and assignments are graded for correctness (versus completion).

What is the All Tasks / Assessment category?

300

Students should come prepared for class with these materials.

What is... a binder with GH section, student planner, writing utensils?

300
Patterns of Settlement in the Ancient and Modern World
What is Unit 1
300

When a student has not turned in an assignment, but still has the opportunity to do so. It calculates as this on Synergy.

What is  50 % ?

300

This civilization invented GunPowder, Paper Money, and inoculations.

What is China?

400

This grading category has a greater impact / weight on a student's overall grade.

What is All Tasks / Assessments?

400

This is the absolute last day that students may submit an assignment.

What is the deadline (generally near interims)?

400

Students will participate in this research project and collaborate to address Sustainability Development Goals.

What is Model United Nations (MUN) ?

400

LC stands for this.

What is a Learning Check? (a small quiz or assessment that checks student understanding)

400
This empire was involved in Carthaginian Wars.
What is Rome?
500

In addition to a traditional letter grade (A, B, C, D, E), students may also be evaluated with either a C, O, S, R, or NI. What 2 skills do these letters assess?

What is student participation and assignment completion?

500
These are good times for students to see their teacher for extra help.
What is Charge Up, before or after school, lunch (last resort!)?
500

The Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Rome (Citizenship)

What is Unit 3?

500
When a student receives an "X" for a grade it means this.
What is the student is excused from the assignment? They do not have to complete it and it will not affect their grade.
500

This civilization was credited with developing Hammurabi's Code, the first known example of "Rule of Law"

What is Mesopotamia / Babylon?

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