Grading Policy

[Jeremiah Choi]

Hey guys, 

Enoch just asked our department to establish a uniform Grading Policy.

Here's my Grading Policy; do you guys see a need to deviate very much from this? I'm very open to any suggestions you might have.

If so, please reply to this email so that we can begin a discussion about the grading policy for the English Dept. 

If no one replies or voices any concerns, I will ask that in your Syllabus, you change your grading policy to the following and then RESUBMIT the approval form with your new and edited syllabus attached.

Participation/Journals	15%
Homework	10%
Quizzes	10%
Papers	15%
Projects	10%
Accelerated Reader	10%
Midterm	15%
Final	15%

[Hannah Choi]

Grading Scale
In-Class Participation:                     20%
Quizzes:                                            10%

Journal Entries:                                 10%                                         
Writing Assignments:                       10%

Homework:                                        10%

Midterm:                                             10%

Final Exam:                                         10%

Projects and Presentations:                 10%

Accelerated Reading (A/R)                 10%



This is what I had planned.  I guess I can combine journals and participation... But the percentage of the tests seems too big for tenth grade... (or for lower grades for that matter) Why does it have to be uniformed all of a sudden? The nature of your class focusing on huge papers is so different from what the lower grades are learning...

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[Jeremiah Choi]

hm. what do the lower class teachers think? i think i can make a case for the lower classes having 20% and then it increasing in high school, but shouldn't that transition happen in high school?

[Ansel, Julia]

I was not planning to do a paper with seventh grade until the second semester.

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[Jeremiah Choi]

hm, are you doing any writing assignments at all?

[Eric and Anna Coplin]

I used Jeremiah's exact same grading policy in both my syllabi. It
seemed pretty reasonable to me for 11th and 12th graders.

Not sure what is best for the lower grades...I hope that what I'm
asking of my students is not too much to expect being that they are at
a lower level of English, but they are in the last year or so of their
highschool career, so they kind of need to get used to high
percentages for tests and papers because that is what they will face
in college. I'm just going to try to keep the material we cover more
on their level.

~Anna

On 2/24/13, Jeremiah Choi <jeremi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hm. what do the lower class teachers think? i think i can make a case for
> the lower classes having 20% and then it increasing in high school, but
> shouldn't that transition happen in high school?
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Hannah Choi
> <sunflowe...@gmail.com>wrote:
>

>> *Grading Scale*

[Jeremiah Choi]

anna, that sounds reasonable. 

and for the grades 7-9, what about this: (changes are bolded)

Participation/Journals	20%
Homework	10%
Quizzes	10%
Assignments	10%

Projects	10%
Accelerated Reader	10%
Midterm	15%
Final	15%

[Danny Spatchek]

I support that grading policy for 7-9 grade students, Jeremiah.

[Jeremiah Choi]

julia? any concerns about that version?

[Jeremiah Choi]

everyone else: when you're done please resubmit the syllabus! two versions: 1 for the 7-9 and another for 10-12.

[Ansel, Julia]

how are assignments and homework different? why are journals and participation in the same category? those are my only concerns.

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From: Jeremiah Choi <gvcs-eumseong-en...@googlegroups.com>

To: English Department <gvcs-eumseong-en...@googlegroups.com>

[Jeremiah Choi]

assignments would be anything that's too large to classify as HW. journals are basically participation points for me as they're not corrected for content. can you propose a middle school grading policy to discuss?

[Julia Ansel]

This is the one I had used on my syllabus:

Elements Percentage
Final 20%
Midterm 20%
Quizzes 10%
Projects 10%
Assignments 10%
Participation 20%
Accelerated Reader 10%

On 2/25/13, Jeremiah Choi <jeremi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> assignments would be anything that's too large to classify as HW. journals
> are basically participation points for me as they're not corrected for
> content. can you propose a middle school grading policy to discuss?
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Ansel, Julia <ju...@gvcs.kr> wrote:
>
>> how are assignments and homework different? why are journals and
>> participation in the same category? those are my only concerns.
>>
>>
>> ------- Original Message -------

>> *From:* Jeremiah Choi <gvcs-eumseong-en...@googlegroups.com>
>> *To:* English Department <
>> gvcs-eumseong-en...@googlegroups.com>
>> *Sent:* Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:15:34 +0900
>> *Subject*: Re: Grading Policy

>>
>> everyone else: when you're done please resubmit the syllabus! two
>> versions: 1 for the 7-9 and another for 10-12.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Jeremiah Choi
>> <jeremi...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> julia? any concerns about that version?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Danny Spatchek
>>> <spat...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I support that grading policy for 7-9 grade students, Jeremiah.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Jeremiah Choi
>>>> <jeremi...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> anna, that sounds reasonable.
>>>>>
>>>>> and for the grades 7-9, what about this: (changes are bolded)
>>>>>
>>>>>

>>>>> *Participation/Journals*
>>>>>
>>>>> *20%*

[Jeremiah Choi]

don't you think that 40% for the midterm and final are a bit high? what do the other middle school teachers think? please chime in.

[Ansel, Julia]

I hadn't thought of them as combined, but maybe you are right.

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From: Jeremiah Choi <gvcs-eumseong-en...@googlegroups.com>

To: English Department <gvcs-eumseong-en...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:54:40 +0900
Subject: Re: Grading Policy