1. Welcome to the Ninth Grade

2. A Fresh Start New teachers New opportunities
Getting ready for life after high school
Colleges look at your grades starting in the ninth grade.
What you do now impacts the rest of high school and your future.

3. Changes Credits Attendance Grade Point Average Schedule Lunches
Entrance in the morning
No Sustained Silent Reading class

4. Credits What is a credit? How are credits earned?
How do credits impact
advancing to the next
grade and graduation?

5. The Number of Credits Needed to Advance to the Next Grade…

6. Credits Needed 6 To enter 10th grade 13 To enter 11th grade
Graduate 6 13 20 28

7. Attendance It’s the LAW! Math Department
Failure to attend school on a regular basis may result in loss of credit and court action.
Math Department
Lose two points on your homework average for every class you are absent from.

8. Schedule/Classes Eighth grade classes are 66 minutes in length.
High school classes are 84 minutes in length.
You have three classes from Aug-Jan and then you have three different classes from Jan-June.
Additionally, you have two classes that meet every other day, but they meet all year.

9. Schedule/Classes You will have: English Environmental Science
Health/PE and Writing Skills Workshop (.50 credits each)
World History/Government
Math Semester 1
Math Semester 2
Elective (Special)

10. Schedule/Classes A and D blocks rotate.
There are two B block classes and they alternate daily.
C block class does not change.

11. Schedule Rotation Semester 1
A-Day
D-Day A)
World History 2
Honors English B)
Art
Comp. Info. Sys. C)
Math D)

12. Schedule Rotation Semester 2
A-Day
D-Day A)
Environment Science
Math B)
Art
Comp. Info. Sys. C)
Writing Skills or Health/PE D)
Environmental Science

13. Grade Point Average
Each letter grade has a numerical value assigned to it from 0 to 4.3 (Honors and Advanced Placement Classes are weighted from 0 to 5.4).
Honor Roll/High Honors
Class Rank
College Acceptance
Scholarships
Sports

14. More on that Later

15. Lunches There are two different lunches.
Lunches are either at the start of your C- block class (third period) or at the end of your C-block class.
Lunches are mixed with students from grades

16. In the Morning Must be in homeroom by 8:00 a.m.
Students enter through the main entrance.
Must be in homeroom by 8:00 a.m.

17. Weighted Course Values
Letter Grade
Numerical Grade
Weighted Course Values
STANDARD
ADVANCED AP A+
98-100
4.3
4.7
5.4 A
94-97
4.0
4.4
5.0 A-
90-93
3.7
4.1
4.6 B+
87-89
3.3
3.6 B
84-86
3.0
3.8 B-
80-83
2.7
3.4 C+
77-79
2.3
2.5
2.9 C
74-76
2.0
2.2 C-
70-73
1.7
1.9
2.1 D
65-69
1.0
1.1
1.3 F
Below 65

18. Environmental Science
Class
Grade
GPA
Credits
Grade 9
English 9 A-
3.7 1
Geometry B+
3.3
Alg. 1 Sem. 2 A
4.0
World History 2
Environmental Science A+
4.3
Writing Skills
2.0 (4.0) .5
Health/PE
Spanish 1
Comp. Info Systems C+
2.3
28.6 8

19. Class
Grade
GPA
Credits
Grade 10
Honors English 10 A
4.4 1
Honors Biology B+
3.6
Adv. Topics in Geom.
4.0
Algebra 2 A-
3.7
US History A+
4.3
Spanish 2
Physical Education
Art 1 B
3.0
31.3 8

20. Class
Grade
GPA
Credits
Grade 11
AP Eng. Lang. Comp A-
4.6 1
AP Biology 1 A
5.0
AP Biology 2
Pre-Calculus B+
3.3
Honors Chemistry B
Spanish 3
4.0
Psychology A+
4.3
Physical Education
33.4 8

21. Totals 3.8875 33.4-Grade 11 31.3-Grade 10 + 28.6-Grade 9 93.3
8 Credits-Grade 11
8 Credits-Grade 10
8 Credits-Grade 9
24 Total Credits
3.8875

22. Remember It’s a clean start… What you do today, will impact tomorrow…
Keep all of your doors open for you…make good choices and decisions.

23. Hard Work
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25. Questions???

26. Enjoy Your Summer Vacation