1. honors World history 9 michole mattix mattixm@edmonds.wednet.edu

2. Honors World History 9 Semester long course Honors designation:
District requires 3.5 years of Social Studies
Honors designation:
Prepare students for future AP (Advanced Placement) classes
Opportunity to earn college credit
Faster pace and more rigorous
Skills and content for AP classes
World History from 1400’s-1650’s
Renaissance
Reformation
Scientific Revolution
Global Contact/Exploration
CBA (Curriculum Based Assessment)
Research paper on Technology Through the Ages
In class, 60-70%; will require some homework
Turn in online (to turnitin.com)
Right after 1st quarter (November)

3. Classroom Learning Target Due Dates/Test Dates
What we will learn and how we will learn it
Due Dates/Test Dates
No excuses (on the whiteboard)
Absentee Clipboard and Basket
Taking responsibility
Turn in basket by my desk
Books – classroom, checked out (at home)

4. How to help your child succeed
My availability:
PASS (Wednesdays, Thursdays, & most Fridays); before school 7-7:20; 2nd lunch
Study Hawks:
Library after school, with computer access and peer tutors
2-4; Bus leaves shortly after
Get Organized:
Planner or weekly homework/assignment sheet
Use Binder or Folders
Keep assignments for all units/Comprehensive Final at end of semester
Links and Documents on my Website
Not all assignments, but CBA materials and links!
Check Skyward
I update it every two weeks or sooner (CBAs take longer to grade)
Late/make up is updated every two weeks (grade folder then)
If you want to know if they turned it in, yet not graded yet, me

5. homework Textbook notes: CBA will require some homework time
Cornell style (help create a system)
Due weekly (usually Wednesdays); always on board
Quiz when due
I suggest do one page a night (otherwise night before is a long one)
I teach to supplement the material they are reading, for deeper understanding
CBA will require some homework time
Can also expect on average 3 nights a week of homework outside the textbook notes
Usually reading and writing in nature
Sometimes more complex then other times
Range from minutes
Encourage using PASS time to do homework
Will have homework over Thanksgiving & Winter break (Spring Break for 2nd semester)

6. Grading Based on 5 areas Grading Scale
Daily assignments and Participation is 25% of overall grade
Homework (Cornell textbook notes) and flashcards 20% of overall grade
I grade half each time (randomly); turn in equals a check off
Late only can get half credit
Quizzes (from textbook notes) 10% of overall grade
Essay and Essay work (DBQs, CBA, Debates) 10% of overall grade
Unit Tests (includes comprehensive final) are 35% of overall grade
Grading Scale
100-93% A; 92-90% A-
89-88% B+; 87-83% B; 82-80% B-
79-78 C+; 77-73% C; 72-70% C-
69-68% D+; 67-60% D
59% and lower is F

7. Contact I am part time, leave at 12:55 Email is the best:
Goal to respond to s in 24 hours; check them during my working hours
Website is to supplement
Try to update regularly
Also trying to implement and intergrate Canvas this year

8. About me
Local
Graduated from Lynnwood High School
Live in Edmonds
BA in Psychology at Western Washington University; Masters in Teaching from Grand Canyon University
Started teaching here in 1994 (strictly freshmen since 2009)
Involvement:
Girls Basketball Coach Varsity; JV
Boys Basketball Academic Advisor 2013-present
Peer Mediator Advisor 2003-present
Class of 2017 Co-Advisor
Family & Hobbies:
Married since 1994 with 2 kids – 10th grade daughter and 7th grade son
Enjoy walking my dog, yoga, photography and watching my kids in their activities/sports