Email Etiquette Scenarios

You received a D on your last math test. This dropped your overall grade to a low C. You were hoping to have all A's and B's on your report card. What is the best way to handle this?

• Email your teacher asking for extra credit

• Email your teacher asking to retake the test.

• Visit your teacher in person to ask for an extra credit assignment.

• Email your teacher telling them how unfair they are.

You are going to be absent from school due to a doctor's appointment. How are you going to handle your missing assignments?

• Email your teacher informing them about your absence and asking for assignments.

• Wait until you get back to school, then ask for your missing assignments.

• Don't do anything. Your teacher will let you know what you have missed.

• Email your teacher after you see the nhi (not handed in) in the gradebook.

You had an away basketball game last night. You didn't get home until 10:00 pm. You didn't get your English homework done as a result. How will you handle this?

• Email your teacher telling him you didn't get home until late and that is why your homework is not done.

• Email your teacher accepting responsibility for not getting your homework done.

• Email your teacher telling him he should not give homework on game nights.

• Email your teacher telling him he gives too much homework.

You did not understand today's lesson in math class. How will you handle this?

• Email your teacher telling her that the lesson was too confusing to understand.

• Email your teacher telling her she did a horrible job explaining the lesson.

• Email your teacher asking if you can meet before school so you can ask some questions.

• Do nothing. It's her job to teach, so it's not your fault that you don't understand.

You noticed that your teacher entered a grade incorrectly in the grade book. How do you handle this?

• Email your teacher telling them that you want your grade corrected immediately.

• Email your teacher suggesting they may have made an error and ask them to look at it.

• Email your teacher telling them they should be more careful when entering grades.

• Email your teacher telling them they made a mistake.

You are missing two assignments in Science class. You decide to write an email to your teacher. What is the best subject line?

• Period 2, Missing Assignments

• Science Class

• Question about Science Class

• Assignments

You lost your Salem Witch Trials packet for Social Studies class. You need a new one, but you're afraid to ask your teacher because this is the second one you've lost. How will you handle this?

• Do NOT email your teacher asking for another one! He/She will be very upset with you!

• Send an apologetic email to your teacher and thank them for their help and time in getting you another packet.

• Send an email to your teacher with a story about how it really wasn't your fault. Your dog ate it!

• Send an email asking for another one. No apologies or thank you's needed. This is your teacher's job after all.

Your teacher wrote you a letter of recommendation for the Arts Immersion program. What is the best way to acknowledge this?

• Send an email thanking them.

• Give them a hand-written thank you note.

• No need to thank them. This is part of their job.

• Just tell them "thanks" the next time you see them.