First of all I welcome the fact that you are proactive, and encourage you to monitor your son’s progress via the Power Teacher Gradebook

 Student Grades are based on the following:

>Roughly a 10 page reading assignment every week.  

>They are assigned a half chapter’s worth of review questions for class work once per week for 10 pts.  If they expand on the answers, placing the answer in a broader context, I award them from 1-3 pts extra credit for this also.

> Students will have weekly reading assignments and will submit notes on the reading for 10 pts.  I will also assign a short writing assignment for 10 pts once per chapter for class work.  Initially content determines the grade, but increasingly attention to the rules of grammar will be emphasized.

> There will be a Chapter Test, worth 20-25 pts at the end of each chapter, quarterly tests at the end of the 1^st and 3^rd quarters, and midterms and finals ending the 2^nd and 4^th. The quarterly tests are also worth 20-25 pts, but the midterm and final are factored into their semester grade, which is St. Joe’s policy.

> If there are extenuating circumstances I should be aware of, please email me and let me know.  If there is one value I am trying to emphasize, it is that they can’t expect to get something for nothing.  To the best of my ability I will reward them only for honest effort.