Honors U.S. Government
Mr. Simmons - Room 1408
Course Description
Class Rules
- Respect others, yourself, and school property.
- Follow instructions quickly and quietly.
- Remember that failure is part of the learning process.
Supplies
- Black or blue pen or pencil
- Notebook paper
- Folder/notebook for handouts
Nine Weeks Grading Policy
- Tests - 75%
- Daily work - 25%
Tests
- Tests will always be announced in advance.
- Tests will consist of some combination of multiple choice, matching, fill-in-the-blank, and essay questions.
- It is the student’s responsibility to make up a test. Students need to make an appointment with the teacher to schedule make‐ups.
Late Work Policy
Students are expected to complete their assignments on time. If a student is late completing work this procedure is followed unless otherwise notified in class:
- 1 Day Late = 20 points deducted
- 2 Days Late = 30 points deducted
- 3 Days Late = 50 points deducted
- 4 Days Late = Score of 0
Cell Phones/Electronic Devices
Academic Dishonesty
Academic Dishonesty is obtaining credit for work that is not your own. Offending actions may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Submitting another student's work as one's own work.
- Obtaining or accepting a copy of tests or scoring devices.
- Giving or obtaining test questions or answers from a member of another class.
- Copying from another student's test or computer file, or allowing another student to copy during a test or computer program.
- Using materials that are not permitted during a test.
- Plagiarism (presenting material copied without adequate documentation from a published source as one's own).
- Copying, or having someone other than the student, prepare the student's homework, paper, project, laboratory report, computer program or take‐home test for which credit is given.
- Permitting another student to copy (or writing) another student's homework, project, report, paper, and computer file.
Any incidents of academic dishonesty will result in a grade of zero (0) on the assignment in question, and a report of the offence will be entered into school records.
Attendance Policy
All students are expected to be in attendance, and on time every school day unless absent because of (a) illness of student, (b) illness of an immediate family member, (c) death in the family, (d) religious holiday of the student’s own specific faith, (e) subpoena by a law enforcement agency, (f) special events if the student gets permission from the school five days ahead of time, (g) medical or dental appointments, (h) field trips and school sponsored functions, or (j) student has or is suspected to have a communicable disease or infestation which can be transmitted.
- A pattern of unexcused absences/tardy (more than 3 per quarter) will result in a phone call home
- Any further absences/tardy will be addressed according to the Progressive Discipline Matrix of Paris ISD.
- Any work missed due to absence of any reason is the student’s responsibility to come to the teacher and get the work to be made up. It is not my responsibility to seek you out because you were absent.
- Make up work will only be accepted before the end of the second school day after the students return.
- A zero will be entered into gradebook, which will be changed if the makeup work is handed in on time
Tentative Syllabus
Zachary Simmons
Email: zach.simmons@parisisd.net