GeometryB

Syllabus

BobJonesHigh School / Teacher: / Richard Travers
650 Hughes Road / Email: /
Madison, AL 35758 / Phone: / 256-772-2547
I. Course Description: / Geometry B is a course that builds on Geometry A concepts and increases students’ knowledge of shapes and their properties through geometry-based applications, many of which are observable in aspects of everyday like. This knowledge helps develop visual and spatial sense and strong reasoning skills. The Geometry B course requires students to make conjectures and to use reasoning to validate or negate these conjectures. The use of proofs and constructions is a valuable tool that enhances reasoning skills and enables students to better understand more complex mathematical concepts. Technology should be used to enhance students’ mathematical experience, not replace their reasoning abilities. Because of its importance, this Euclidean geometry course is required of all students receiving an Alabama High School Diploma.
II. Course Objectives: / 1) The students will have an understanding of different kinds of shapes and the properties that are associated with those shapes.
2) The students will be able to apply the theorems and postulates to solve problems.
3) The students will have an understanding of how to write and develop a proof.
* Course objectives can be found at
III. Classroom Expectations: /
  • Have respect for: every person and their property, school property, the rights of others in the class to learn, the teacher, and YOURSELF!
  • Be prepared to work every day until the end of class.
  • Bring all materials to class every day including test days.
  • Be on time for class every day.
  • The academic misconduct policy of the school will be followed in this course.
  • The attendance policy of the school will be followed in this course.
  • All requests for accommodations, for this course or any school event, are welcomed from students and parents.
  • Any student who receives failing grades during this course is urged to discuss this with the teacher.
  • NO GUM, FOOD, OR DRINKS of any kind are to be brought into the class!
ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES:
  • Know the student handbook. If it is in there, it applies in here.
  • Take care of personal business before or after class, not during class.
  • Be in your seat ready to work when the bell rings.
  • Pay attention, listen carefully, and follow directions.
  • Talk or move about only when given permission to do so. Then, do so quietly.
  • Wait for the teacher to dismiss class. The bell does not dismiss you.
  • You will only be allowed two bathroom passes per quarter. USE THEM WISELY!
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  • Consequences include detention, parent conference, and/or referral to school administration.
Procedures
Beginning of class
1. Be in your seat, with all needed materials, ready to work when the bell rings.
2. Our school-wide tardy policy calls for punitive action on the first and all subsequent offenses.
3. There will be instructions/work on the board on occasion. If so begin this work immediately. Otherwise,
haveyour homework out and ready to check.
During class
1. Talk only when you have been given permission to do so.
2. Please ask permission before speaking out or getting out of your seat.
3. Sleeping, writing personal notes/drawing, or texting/cell phone use will not be tolerated especially when you should be taking notes or completing class work. You will not have time for these activities.
4. Please do not write on the desks or throw garbage on the floor or the bookshelves.
5.When you need my attention, politely and calmly raise your hand or call my name. I strongly encourage you to stop me when you are confused and to bring any mistakes I make to my attention.
6. You must have an emergency and a valid pass to be allowed to leave class.
End of class
1. Putting books up early will result in punitive action.
2. I dismiss you, not the bell.
IV.BJ Grading Policy: / A letter grade will be assigned based on the school scale. The grading scale is: A (90-100), B (80-89), C (70-79), D (65-69), and F (below 65).
The gradewill be weighted with tests counting 70% and class work, homework and quizzes counting 30%.
  1. Classwork/homework will be often. All work must be kept in a notebook.
  2. Quizzes will be given throughout a chapter. They may not be announced in advance. If you are absent there will not be a make-up given for that quiz. Quizzes will be worth between 5 and 20 points.
  3. Tests will be given periodically. Tests will be announced at least 2 days in advance and will be worth 100 points. All tests, quizzes, and work turned in must be written with PENCIL. No credit will be given to work written in pen, unless otherwise instructed.
  4. Bell workproblems will be on the board. Begin working on them as soon as the bell rings. Copy the problems onto your paper and then solve
  5. Students who are absent for excused reasons will be permitted to make up missed work. It is the student’s responsibility to get work assignments the day he/she returns to school. Students will have 3 to 10 days to makeup work, depending on the amount of work missed. Grades of zero will be assigned for assignments missed for unexcused absences. (See Policy JAJ VII.F)

V. BJ Make-up Test Policy: / Make-up tests will be given only to a student who has an excused absence.Students are to make up the missed test as soon as possible. Arrangements need to be made with the teacher. No make-up tests will be administered during class time. Test dates will be posted in the classroom and sent out on Remind.
VI. Text and Other Required Reading: / Geometry (Holt McDougal)
VII. Materials and Supplies Needed: / Textbook, notebook, pencil, graph paper, highlighter/colored pencils, scientific calculator, and straightedge.
VIII. BJ Laptop Policy /
  1. Student laptops will NOT be wired to the network or have print capabilities.
  2. Discs, flash drives, jump drives or other USB devices can NOTbe used.
  3. Laptops are the responsibility of the student. Teachers nor the school are responsible for broken, stolen, or lost laptops.
4. It is the teacher’s decision whether laptops will be used during class.
IX. BJ policies /
  1. The academic misconduct policy of the school will be followed in this course.
  2. The attendance policy of the school will be followed for this course.
  3. All requests for accommodations, for this course or any school event, are welcomed from students and parents.
  4. Any student who receives failing grades during this course is urged to discuss this with the teacher immediately

18 – WEEK PLAN
*This is a tentative schedule; therefore changes will be made as needed.
Week 1 / Similarity
Week 2 / Similarity
Week 3 / Similarity
Week 4 / Right Triangles & Trigonometry
Week 5 / Right Triangles & Trigonometry
Week 6 / Right Triangles & Trigonometry
Week 7 / Right Triangles & Trigonometry
Week 8 / Circles
Week 9 / Circles
Week 10 / Circles
Week 11 / Circles
Week 12 / Area
Week 13 / Area
Week 14 / Area + Volume
Week 15 / Volume
Week 16 / Volume
Week 17 / Probability
Week 18 / Review & Exams

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