1. Welcome to 7th Grade Social Studies
Elizabeth Honn
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It is a pleasure to work with your student each day to help them become stronger readers, writers, and historians.
As this evening is a group meeting, please send me an or call anytime you have questions, concerns, or if you’d like to set up a meeting to talk about your student.

2. Nuts and Bolts What is the best way to contact me?
What if a student is absent?
It is the student’s responsibility to get the work he/she missed or to schedule a time to make something up.
They need to check my website for what they missed.
A student has one extra day per excused absence.
How often is Family Access updated?
As soon as possible after an assignment is graded

3. My Teaching Philosophy
Learning should be engaging, challenging, and is not optional.
High standards are for everyone (including myself).
Basic fundamentals, educational & social, are extremely important for success and happiness.
Reading and writing are life skills.
History is a story that needs to be told from various perspectives, and history is necessary to understand the present.
Skills developed in the humanities will apply in all disciplines and in all careers.
Grades should reflect ability, not behavior. Behavior sometimes impedes skills.

4. Love and Logic Discipline
School & classroom expectations
The Love and Logic principles will guide how opportunities for learning and making mistakes are handled. Students will be asked to step back and think about behaviors that do not adhere to classroom norms or expectations. Students may be required to complete further reflection in an attempt to allow each child to grow and learn from her/his actions. Each situation will be responded to on an individual basis.

5. Late Work Policy
I do not take points off for late work, but do make a note of it to track work habits.
If a student regularly turns in late work, the following interventions will be applied:
student conference with the teacher
or phone call home and/or parent/student conference
student may be assigned lunch detention and/or 7th period
All unit assignments must be turned in before the end of the unit in order to receive credit.

6. Assessment Policy
I give pre-assessments before the unit test. If students meet the standard on the pre-assessment, they do not have to take the final assessment.
The pre-assessment and final assessment measure the same learning standard, but are different tests.
Learning is not an option so I will insist on retakes until the student has met the learning target. This may require after school support.
Students can earn up to 100% on a retake and all students are welcome to retake an assessment if they choose to.

7. Understanding Grades on Family Access
Academics
Success Indicators
Assignments 0%
Assessments 100%
Tests
Projects
Summative work where learning standards are being measured
Work Habits 0%
Initiative 0%
Collaboration 0%
Citizenship 0%

8. Social Studies – The Medieval Period
Textbook
Trimesters 1 and 2
Europe
World Religions
Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism
Islam
Imperial China
Japan
ClassLink

9. Social Studies – Trimester 3 Washington State mid-1700s to modern times
Geography
History
Economics
Government
This course is a high school requirement. If a student does not pass the course in 7th grade, they will be required to take it again in high school.

10. What can parents do to help?
Make sure students have a homework routine for after school
Make sure students are reading & writing regularly, hopefully for enjoyment too
Have discussions with your kids about what they are learning in the classroom
Check Family Access often with your student
Be sure students are using their planners
Sign up for my Remind messages
Check teacher websites regularly
Communicate with teachers about concerns
Encourage/require your student to attend 7th period or peer tutoring if they need or want extra help

11. The beginning is often the roughest time.
Questions?

12. Thank you for being here!