This document outlines the expectations, policies, and resources for an AP Macroeconomics class. It includes the teacher's mission and vision to increase student achievement and understanding of the broader world. Students are expected to be responsible for their own grades, learning, and actions. Assessments will include tests, projects, and homework, with grades calculated on a standard A-F scale. The document provides details on attendance, late work, academic honesty, and other policies to maximize learning. Resources like the class website and Google Classroom are listed to support students.

1. Class Expectations
Fall 2016

2.  Vision & Core Beliefs
 Availability
 Supplies
 Online Resources
 What is AP Macroeconomics?
 Class Rules
 Class Policies
 Grading

3. Mission: To increase the achievement of all students
by providing content and standards based learning
that will also translate to real-world application
and productive citizenship for the common good.

4. Vision: That all students will have a better
understanding of the broader world around them
than when they began their studies. The
knowledge students learn in this class will make
them more productive citizens and they will use
this knowledge to make their environment a better
place for themselves, their families, and all people
they meet.

5. Core Beliefs:
1. All students who come to my class will learn.
2. Education is two parts: teaching and learning.
3. Learning takes place at ALL times – inside school,
at home, at work, and everywhere in between. A
person must simply be ready to see and hear the
lessons.
4. It takes cooperation between school and home to
achieve the greatest academic success.

6.  SMART Lunch Tutorials
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
A
Lunch
Closed
Meeting
By
Appointment
Closed
Hall Duty
By
Appointment
Tutorial
L-Z
B
Lunch
Closed
Meeting
Tutorial
A-K
Closed
By
Appointment
By
Appointment
 After School
◦ By Appointment

7. Individual Supplies
 Loose leaf binder (and paper)
 Highlighter(s)
 Blue or Black
 Calculator (not allowed on the AP Exam)
Classroom Supplies
 Tissues
 Hand Sanitizer
 “Windex” or store brand
 Dry Erase Markers
 New Tube Sock

8.  Website
◦ www.caggiasocialstudies.com/APEcon.html
 Homework via Remind
◦ Period 4: @apep4f16
 Google Classroom
◦ You MUST use your school Google Account
◦ Period 4: d98c5d
 Twitter
◦ www.twitter.com/caggiaecon
◦ www.twitter.com/caggiasocstud
 Expectation
◦ You WILL reference the material online when you
are absent

9.  What is AP Macroeconomics?
◦ College Level Course
◦ The study of economies as a whole
 an entire nation’s economy
 the economy of an entire industry
◦ Study of international trade

10.  Categories
◦ Luck: 10%
◦ Skill: 20%
◦ Concentrated Power of Will: 15%
◦ Pleasure: 5%
◦ Pain: 50%
◦ Remember the Nam3: 100%

11.  Categories
◦ Major: 80%
◦ Minor: 20%
 Assessments
◦ Tests, Projects, Reports, Quizzes, Homework,
Classwork, Minor Assignments
 Grade Scale
◦ A: > 89.4
◦ B: 79.5 – 89.4
◦ C: 69.5 – 79.4
◦ D: 59.5 – 69.4
◦ F: < 59.5

12.  Make-Up Work
◦ “Absent”
◦ “Late Work”
◦ Tests & Quizzes
 Mid-Term Exam
◦ None
 Final Exam
◦ Made from
previous released
exams
 Senior Exemptions
◦ A and no more than 3 excused
absences
◦ B and no more than 2 excused
absences
◦ C and no more than 1 excused
absence

13.  Rule #1: Read the Directions
 Rule #2: Be responsible for:
◦ 2(a): YOUR Grade;
◦ 2(b): YOUR Learning;
◦ 2(c): YOUR Work;
◦ 2(d): YOUR Actions
 Rule #3: Positive Attitudes ONLY
 Rule #4: Treat others as you would like to be treated
 Rule #5: Respect other people’s property and person
 Rule #6: Laugh WITH anyone but laugh AT no one
 Rule #7: Come to class and hand in work ON TIME
 Rule #8: Do not disturb people who are working

14.  There is no excuse for lazy
 We make our own luck
◦ “Luck favors the prepared!” – Edna Mode

15. KEEP
CALM
AND
DFTBA

16. Honor Code
 “At Leesville Road High School I am expected
to conduct myself honorably in pursuit of
academic excellence; thus I will not cheat or
plagiarize.”

17. Definitions
 Cheating - Defined as receiving or giving
unauthorized assistance on academic work
that may be used as a graded assessment for
any course/subject.
 Plagiarizing - Defined as copying the
language, structure, or ideas of another (in
whole or in part) and representing it as one’s
own work.

18. “59 Rule”
 Any student caught cheating on any assignment
will be able to re-do an alternate assignment,
with the highest possible grade being a 59.
◦ 1st Offense: Parent contact (teacher and administrator)
and 2 days of ISS, Alternate assignment: 59 Rule
◦ 2nd Offense: Parent contact (teacher and administrator)
and 3 days of ISS, Alternate assignment: 59 Rule
◦ 3rd Offense: Parent contact (teacher and administrator)
and 5 days of ISS, Parent conference strongly
encouraged if not held previously, Alternate assignment:
59 Rule

19.  Hall Passes
◦ 5/quarter
◦ Extra credit
 Tardiness
◦ “Start on Time”
 Absences
 Bullying/Intimidation
 Eating & Drinking in Class
 Nuisance Items
◦ Electronic devices, hats, dice, etc.

20. Eligibility
 Scored below 70%, completed Unit packet,
attentive during the unit
Process
 Corrections during SMART Lunch
 70% is the highest grade possible via Test
Corrections
Deadline
 2 Weeks from the return of the Assessment to
the class