1. Welcome to Mr. Bertrand’s Honors Civics

2. Chromebooks
&
Google Classroom

4. Bell Ringer 1
List one law that we must all obey in our daily lives, and identify one penalty for breaking that law.
Give one logical reason or purpose for that law to exist in society today.

5. Parent Letter Consequences Syllabus Procedures Grades Materials
Homework
Summatives
Website and Google Classroom
Powerschools
ROARS

7. Careful with your speech, throw away
trash properly, permitted food only, be in your seat, treat people with dignity
No phone use, no Beats or ear buds, head up, no sleeping, appropriate food only, give best effort
In your seat before the bell rings
Come to school and be on time
Do class and home assignments on time
Have required materials in class, pencil/pen, highlighter, homework, papers, assignments
Shirt tails in, no hoodies, belts on, pants up, ID on lanyard around your neck, obey dress code

8. CONSEQUENCES FOR VIOLATIONS
Students not in their seat when the bell rings will always be sent out for a tardy pass, regardless of if they were even in class first. I will always be consistent and will not warn about this issue.
Immediate referrals are written for only the most serious acts such as fighting, bullying, cursing, etc.

9. Procedures

10. Other rules and procedures

11. Syllabus

12. 16 40% 60% Grade Formula ((5th Q*2)+(6th Q*2)+E3))/5=B3
Formative vs. Summative
40% % 16
Grade Formula
((5th Q*2)+(6th Q*2)+E3))/5=B3
((7th Q*2)+(8th Q*2)+E4))/5=B4
(B3+B4)/2=S2
Honors Bonus applied to Quarters, not to Exams
A=+7, B=+5, C=+3

13. Class Materials
Students will need the following in order to take part in class.
Your class chromebook provide each day by school
A notebook of your choice or loose leaf paper in a binder
A folder of some sort, if you are keeping track of paperwork and trying to be orderly
A pencil, highlighter, and pen
There is no textbook

14. Homework
Homework will be assigned on the first day of school each week. The assignment will be posted on the board in class and on my website. Students will be provided with a homework agenda for the semester, but this schedule may change if the need arises.
Example: Homework will be issued on Thursday, January 3rd . This assignment will be due on Tuesday, January 8th. The teacher will be at a meeting on Monday, January 7th.
Homework will be in the form of a reading assignment from selected chapters of a variety of Great Books within the study of government and economics throughout human history. You can find these selections on my website and there is a pdf document that can be downloaded with all of them. I will post these specific text selections on a weekly basis in google classroom. I assign the homework on the first day of each week, and we use the work in class during the next first day of the following week. Students will annotate these reading selections in preparation for Socratic Seminars or writing assignments.

15. Bell Ringer 2
Which Wildcat ROARS is violated by having your head down in class, texting or sleeping?
School rules are like laws in the real world. Write down one of the quotes below about law, that you feel is most true to you.
“Some things that are legally right, are not morally right” -Abraham Lincoln: 1859 CE
“Laws are most numerous when the country is the most corrupt”-Tacitus: 56 CE
“There is plenty of law at the end of a stick” - NY Police Commissioner Grover Whalen: 1932 CE
“Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish” -Thomas Fuller : 1732 CE

16. Homework 1 Savage Civilized Evil Good Dark Light
Due on Tuesday, January 8th
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)
Chapter 1: "The Sound of the Shell”: Leadership Selection
9 pages
Savage
Civilized
Evil
Good
Dark
Light

17. “…the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters
“…the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.“
-Sirius Black
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

18. In the absence of any government or adults, what determined the way the children acted toward one another?
Was there more cooperation or conflict, and which do you expect to be more prevalent in the future of the kids?
How did the physically and/or intellectually strong take advantage of weaker individuals?
How did individuals respond if they felt threatened or mistreated?

19. Assuming the Test Position
Summative Assessments
Normally 16 Summatives
One per week