Syllabus Showdown!

How does a member of the classroom realm earn points for their House (aside from winning competitions)?

• By being where you're supposed to be, when you're supposed to be there, doing what you're supposed to be doing, and show respect to yourself and others.

• By exhibiting outstanding citizenship and scholarship.

• By doing the minimum, only when you're in class, as long as it isn't causing a problem for anyone else.

• By asking for them.

• By breathing and otherwise existing.

While we will "read the world" in this class, the primary focus is texts from ______________.

• England
• The United States

• Timbuktu

• America

• The United Kingdom

The three categories of assignments are essays, process, and prep.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

An essay may be a type of product, but it's not the only way your learning is measured.

How are you assessed when there is NOT a specific assignment rubric?

• 5 or 10 Point Rubric

• Check + (plus), check, check - (minus)

• A for Awesome, B for Beyond Basics, C for Cool--you met requirements, etc.

• All of the options.

Answer explanation

Take a look if you haven't yet!

True or False: If you submit a late/missing process or product based assignment 9 school days past the deadline, it will not be accepted.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

It's 5 school days, not 9. Also, this does NOT apply to prep and practice (AKA classwork/homework)...

You should be learning obsessed, not points obsessed.

• True

• False

When returning to class from an absence, the first thing you should do is "see_____"

Answer explanation

👂👂👂

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) 🚫🚫🚫

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(b) ✅✅✅

• Reading a summary of a text instead of the text itself.

• Copying text from a site or source, then pasting it into a paraphraser/summarizer.

• Using someone else's work from a previous year/semester.

• Collaborating on group assignments.

• Giving info about a test/quiz to those who haven't taken it yet.

• Using templates

• Passing off purchased essays as original work.

• Asking for help.

• Paraphrasing an idea from a source and citing it.

• Ghostwriting (w/AI not for Drake)

• Using widely known facts/info without citation.

• Citing multiple sources for the same idea.

If you are absent for a test, how long do you have to complete the assessment once you return?

• 2 days for each day absent

• 2 days

• 1 week

• None of the above.

If you send a teacher an email after 5PM, you should expect a response...

• within 24 hours

• immediately

• within 12 hours

• never