Mr. Bouyer
Brock Middle School
Brock, TX

Assignment Grades | Class Grade | Bonus Activities

All Brock Middle School students are encouraged to use the internet for educational purposes. Curriculum for this class has been expanded to give students an opportunity to take full advantage of today's communication technology.

A normal class period:

  1. Students begin each day's class by spending a few minutes reviewing science news on the Internet. Some interesting science news topic is noted and discussed.
  2. There may be a demonstration to reinforce the applications of the current class concept.
  3. Students spend the rest of the class period working on curriculum assignments, normally projected onto a screen by their teacher.This frees the instructor and allows for individualized help on student assignments.

Assignment grades will be determined as follows:

  1. Major grades, such as tests, projects, and labs count 50%.
  2. Daily grades; notes, quizzes, assignments, count as the other 50%.
  3. Grades for assignments without evaluation rubrics will be determined as follows:

    • 100% - no weakness
      • Completion of all parts of the assignment.
      • Demonstrates excellence in thinking skills and performance.
      • Not only neat, clear, and precise but demonstrates insight as well.
      • Demonstrates a desire to excel.

        It is not easy to score 100% on these assignments. You must examine your work critically and remove any "weakness". The key work here is excellence.
        Some key things to check:

        Assignment questions are written.
        Answers to questions are written in complete sentences.
        Paragraphs begin with a topic sentence.
        Calculations show equations and the answer is circled.
        Work is not done on "spiral" notebook paper.
        Work is not done in pencil.

    • 90% - some weakness
      • Completion of all parts of the assignment.
      • Demonstrates sound thinking skills and performance.
      • Neat, clear, and precise but lacks depth of insight.
      • Demonstrates a desire to do what is required to the best of their ability.

    • 80% - good
      • One part of the assignment is not complete.
      • Demonstrates good thinking skills and performance.
      • Neat, clear, and precise but does not demonstrates depth of insight.
      • Shows the student is satisfied with meeting minimum standards.

    • 70% - limited success
      • One or two parts of the assignment are not complete.
      • Demonstrates limited success in thinking skills and performance.
      • Inconsistently neat and clear, does not display insight or even consistent competence.
      • Shows the student is not concerned with meeting minimum standards.

    • 50% - poor effort
      • Several parts of the assignment are not complete.
      • Demonstrates poor thinking skills and performance.
      • Work is sloppy and poorly done.
      • Demonstrates a lack of concern for success in the class.

    • 0% - no effort
      • The assignment is not presented for evaluation as required.
      • Demonstrates no desire to pass the class.

  4. There is no automatic "extra-credit" work in SHS science classes. Extra credit is not needed when you do each assignment to the best of your ability.Please speak to the teacher outside of class for determination of extra credit.

Overall Class grade will be determined as follows: