Middle School Check-In

When you enter the classroom, what should you NOT do? 

• Quietly sit in your seat

• Walk around talking to my friends

• Write down your homework

• Begin the warm-up

What is the best way to show your teacher you are listening? 

• Looking at your chromebook on your lap, the teacher won’t notice

• Whispering to your friend (the teacher won’t hear)

• Finishing up your math homework (teacher’s understand that homework is important)

• Quietly looking at the teacher 

I completely tuned the teacher out and now have an assignment in front of me. I have no idea how to complete it, what should I do FIRST?

• Read the directions

• Slip it into binder and worry about it later

• Continue telling my friend about the crazy thing that happened at lunch

• Ask the teacher, “Wait, what are we doing?” 

I have forgotten my pencil everyday this week. What is the best thing to do?

• Ask a different friend for a pencil every day so they don’t get annoyed

• Continue borrowing them from the teacher

• Make a plan to bring pencils from home (might need to buy more)

• Start writing in marker, pencils are meant to be lost forever

My chromebook is dead. What should I NOT do? 

• Borrow a charger from a friend

• Complain that no one likes me enough to lend me their charger

• Use one of the classroom chargers

• Start packing your charger to bring to school

Do I need to ask the teacher to use the class chromebook chargers?

• Yes, especially in the middle of her talking.

• Nope, just look around for an available one.

Which of the following is a complete sentence?

• I get enough exercise from pushing my luck.

• i get enough exercise from pushing my luck.

• I get enough exercise from pushing my luck

• i get

The teacher finished up the directions and is now handing out the assignment. What’s the responsible thing to do during this wait time?

• Talk to all my friends

• Patiently wait for the assignment

• Work on homework for another class

• Get up and walk around

I was sick for a whole week! I can never catch up on everything. What should I do first to determine what I missed?

• Ignore it, I don’t have to do work that I wasn’t in school for

• Ask all my friends for the answers

• Check Canvas for my missing assignments and start working on what I understand

• Ask the teacher if there’s missing work

I was at sectionals/seminar so I missed class, what am I expected to do? 

• Complete what you missed for homework that night

• Hope that I’m excused because that would be cool

• Wait till Workday Wednesday and then email the teacher

•  Ask my friends for the answers to the assignment so I don’t fall behind