Course Expectations
This daily item is required for note-taking and must be brought to class every day.
What is a pen or pencil?
What is a binder?
This type of question appears often on exams and helps prepare students for Regents.
What are multiple-choice questions?
This percentage of your grade comes from exams and projects.
What is 50%?
The first unit is titled this, and helps introduce students to the idea of studying the past.
What is Origins of History?
To leave the room for the bathroom, you must do this every single time.
What is sign out on Smart Pass?
This online platform will host all classroom materials.
What is Google Classroom?
A student absent on test day must do this immediately upon returning to class.
What is make up the test?
Homework counts for this percentage of your total grade.
What is 20%?
This unit covers early humans and their migration patterns.
What is Early Humans?
Students are not allowed to leave class during these minutes of the period (beginning and end).
What is the first and last 5 minutes?
If you’re absent, it's your job to do this with homework and classwork.
What is make it up?
To have a missed exam excused, you must bring this.
What is a parent/guardian or medical note?
Daily handouts and in-class participation fall under this category.
What is classwork?
The study of empires and belief systems takes place in this unit (Hint: 600 BCE to 700 CE).
What is Empires and Belief Systems?
Plagiarism and cheating will result in an automatic referral and this.
What is a call home?
If you arrive late to class more than 3 times, this might happen.
What is a referral and parent/guardian contact?
This essay type asks you to identify and analyze a historical theme over time.
What is the Enduring Issues Essay?
A student who misses a test must do this on the day they return.
What is make up the test?
This unit focuses on the transformation of the world between 1200 to 1750 CE.
What is The First Global Age?
If you're going to be absent in the future, you must give this to your teachers.
What is a note?
Students are encouraged to seek help here, every Wednesday after school in Room 410.
What is tutoring?
This type of short-answer question requires evidence and sourcing, and appears on Regents exams.
What are Constructed-Response Questions (CRQs)?
Students will write this type of essay that includes identifying themes across time.
What is the Enduring Issues Essay?
The final unit of the course looks at this process continuing from 1900 into the future.
What is Globalization?
To get an excused absence for a missed exam, you must provide this.
What is a parent/guardian or medical note?