Challenger Middle School 

Eighth Grade - Mustangs Team

Social Studies - Mr. Fauquher


Welcome to a brand new school year. This is going to be an exciting year meeting lots of new people and learning lots of new things. To get started you will need to have your school supplies by the first day of school. All the following items are imporant to being successful in my classroom so ALL student will be expected to have ALL supplies with them everyday in class.

There will be many activities in my class to help each and every student to becoming self motivated learners.

The first nine weeks will be focused on events leading up to The American Revolution and organizing learning habits that will encourage acquiring new and better learning skills.

Grading for the first nine weeks will be broken into four grading categories each worth 25% of their total grade.

Daily classroom assignments: This category will include recording periodic grades of assigned work. It will also include grades on prepareness for class, including all supplies. There will also be grades in this category on the grading of completion of the school planner which will be provided to each student on their first day of school.

Notebook: Each student will keep all asigned work in a spiral notebook to be graded at the end of each chapter or unit.

Tests: Each student will be periodically tested to assess each student's acquistion of the subject matter.

Quarter project: Each student will be responsible to produce a three to five page research paper on an historical person or event relating to the time frame that we will be studying for the current quarter. A list of psssible subjects will be issued when shool starts.

The first nine weeks project time frame is 1400 AD to 1700 AD.

The due date will be announced the first week of school. (it will be some time in mid October.)