Day 9: Friday, September 16th, 2016 - Happy Friday!

Wow!  Can you believe it?  It's the SECOND Friday of the year already!!!

• Just like last Friday, you guys end the week with a D day, so that means its PE for you during 7th period today.  Bring those sneakers and PE clothes - you don't want to get marked unprepared!
• Get yourself signed up for lunch so ALEX can take that lunch slip down to the office. The Lunch Slip Runners did a great job this week!  Let's keep it up.
• Hand in last night's homework: Geography A to Z - Letter A.

In our Social Studies classes today, you'll be getting your Continents and Oceans quizzes back.  Tonight's homework will be for you to make corrections.  Let's talk about the guidelines for making corrections (these apply to Mr. Pappa's class ONLY).

• Make your corrections on the same quiz sheet.  You do not have to have a separate sheet.
• Doing corrections allows you to receive back 1/2 of the points back that you missed out on the first time around.  For example: if I scored a 70 on the quiz, but I made ALL of my corrections and they were ALL correct, my second score would be 85 (half of 30, the points I missed, is 15, and added to 70 equals 85).  
• The corrections count as a separate score in the grade book.
• You can only get credit for corrections if you fix all of your mistakes.
• If you don't do corrections, or you don't fix all of your mistakes, the original quiz score gets counted twice.  For example: again, if I scored a 70 on the quiz, but decided not to do corrections, or decided to only fix part of my mistakes, my "second" score stays a 70.
• You cannot earn a 100 through corrections.  The reason for this is that it "lessens the integrity" of the 100 received by someone the first time.  Basically, I'm not willing to award a 100 to someone who took 2 times to do it when someone else did it in one try.
• That said, the only scores that do not require corrections are a 99 and a 100.  A score of 99 cannot be improved upon simply because, as stated above, you cannot earn a 100 from corrections.  A student scoring a 99 may, of course, decide to correct a mistake simply to know and understand why the answer was incorrect.

We'll also be continuing on with Geography, as we begin to explore other elements, such as latitude and longitude, using coordinates to locate points on a map, and describing different types of maps.