IMAGE (Health)
Lori Emery
Prep Periods 1 & 7
Room 304
(206) 230-6365
Course Description:
In this course, you will gain practical knowledge in mental, emotional, and physical health. Some of the units of study include public health concerns, communication skills, healthy coping techniques, nutrition, fitness, internet safety, and environmental wellness. You will complete a research project on a disease of your choice. You will become trained and certified in CPR.
General Course Expectations:
- Examine physical, emotional, social, psychological, and environmental components of individual and family wellness.
- Summarize and critically evaluate health related current events and how they relate to self and community.
- Analyze the implications of nicotine, alcohol and other drugs based on laws, school policy, and the steps leading to dependence or addiction.
- Understand impact of decision making and develop strategies to avoid or minimize risky situations.
- Investigate the impact of heredity and environment on health.
- Research and explore various diseases.
- Understand personal nutritional practices and needs based on the USDA recommendations.
- Explore Health career paths
- Understand and demonstrate CPR skills.
Course Content:
- CPR
- Nutrition and wellness
- Stress/depression/suicide
- Substance abuse
- Human sexuality (be on the lookout for a letter coming home)
- Communication/relationships
- Violence/bullying
- Diseases
Classroom Behavior:
You are expected to…
- Be prepared with the required materials
- Pay attention/no phones, only iPad usage when permitted
- Be respectful of others
- Clean up after yourself
- Check out with me if you need to leave the class
Required Materials:
- 3 ring binder
- iPad
- Lined paper
- Pen &/or pencil
- Completed assignments
Attendance Policy:
- If you are absent from class, it is your responsibility to check on what you missed. Check the absent box or my website
- Students with unexcused absences will NOT be allowed to make up any quiz or test, and will receive a grade of 0. Regular in-class or homework assignments can and are encouraged to be made up but will receive a 10% late deduction no matter how many days they are late.
- Excused absences will have the two days to make up the assignments for every day missed, as follows the school’s policy.
- Assignments that received a 0 or were completely missing from your binder can be turned in for a 10% late deduction. Please make sure to take them out of your binder and turn them into Ms. Emery’s hands directly.
- As long as you come to class every day, you will rarely ever have homework from Ms. Emery because she allows in-class time to work on assignments. Getting your body to school every day is half the battle!
It is the position of Mercer Island High School faculty and staff that any absence from a class may be detrimental to optimum progress; and that excessive absences not only impact academic achievement, but also the student’s development of appropriate attitudes and responsibilities. The expectation is that Mercer Island High School students will attend all of their regularly scheduled classes. It is understood that there may be occasions when student will be absent.
It is the position of MIHS that regular student attendance and active participation determines academic success. The MIHS faculty and staff believe that the accumulation of twelve (12) class absences, in a semester, regardless of cause, may jeopardize the ability of the student to be successful in the course. MIHS teachers have identified the importance of regular attendance, active participation, and the relationship between attendance and learning objectives and how absences may affect achievement in a particular course.
For absences to be excused, notes must be submitted to the Attendance Office within two days of your return to school.
Grading:
Grading is based on daily assignments, entry tasks, quizzes, tests, presentations, group work, and participation. Much like in the workforce, in this course you will be assessed by how well you demonstrate skills and how you can contribute to the goals of the group.
SCALE:
- Assignments- 30%
- Attendance/participation/entry tasks- 20%
- Quizzes, Tests, Projects- 40%
- Leadership points- 10%
If you have questions, you may bring them up in class or email that day. All assignments will be posted on my website often with the ability to print it out if you are absent or lose something. Absent work can also be obtained, hard copy, in the “Absent Box” upon arrival to the classroom.
All students will be keeping a binder containing all assignments we do in the order they were assigned. This particular order will also be kept in a running list format by the students so that they are aware of what order to put assignments in this binder. After every 5 assignments students will know that their binders will be graded. Assignments are not due until the 5th assignment (or 10th, 15th, 20th, etc.)
In accordance with district policy, marks indicating achievement which meet standards for receiving credit will be: A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D+, and D.
On a 100 point grading scale, letter grades are earned with the following percentages:
A- 90-92.9 / B 83-86.9 / C 73-76.9 / D 60-65.9
B- 80-82.9 / C- 70-72.9 / F 0-59.9
Academic Integrity/Cheating/Plagiarism:
Mercer Island High School is committed to providing an atmosphere which values truth, integrity, personal accountability, and respect for the rights of others. To this end, academic dishonesty is strictly prohibited. Academic dishonesty occurs when students obtain or assist others in obtaining credit for work which is not their own.
To help students achieve their maximum academic potential, the Mercer Island High School community will promote an environment which fosters integrity and honorable conduct. Administrators, faculty, students and parents share the responsibility for maintaining an atmosphere in which personal accountability is valued. The constant theme must be honest evaluation of student progress demands honest work by each learner and students must be fully responsible and accountable.
Definition of Academic Dishonesty
Academic dishonesty occurs when students obtain or assist others in obtaining credit for work which is not their own.
Student Expectations for Academic Honesty
●Students must conduct themselves according to the highest standards of personal integrity.
●Students will not use dishonest methods to fulfill academic expectations and responsibilities.
●Whenever students have a question about this code, they should ask their teachers.
●Study or homework collaboration is not considered academic dishonesty unless prohibited or limited by procedures/expectations established by the teacher.
Defining Plagiarism:
●Plagiarism can be intentional or unintentional, but is academically dishonest regardless.
●Some obvious forms of intentional plagiarism include submitting a current or former student’s paper as your own, purchasing or finding a paper on-line and submitting it as our own, or cutting and pasting chunks of “research” from another source and inserting it into your paper without proper citation and quotation.
●Perhaps the offense most students seem to think is NOT plagiarism, but in fact constitutes plagiarism, is rephrasing an encyclopedia article without proper citations. Even if rephrased, the student is still passing off the ideas of another person as their own—this IS plagiarism.
●Students also commit plagiarism when they submit assignments that were not assigned as group or collaborative assignments, but were worked on with other students. Again, this can be intentional or unintentional, but still constitutes plagiarism. Unless specified by the teacher, assignments, including homework, papers, projects, and other assessments, are supposed to reflect the student’s own ideas. If two students submit a similar assignment, such as a paper with similar structure, order of evidence, and/or the same choices of quotations, that are highly unlikely to have occurred by accident, they have committed plagiarism. If one student wrote the paper and the other copied it, both students are equally guilty of plagiarism. This is equally true of homework—if one student copies another student’s homework, both are guilty of plagiarism.
●It is every student’s responsibility to safeguard their work. It is every student’s responsibility to make sure their own ideas, not ideas arrived at collaboratively on non-collaborative assignments, are submitted as their work. Students can have peers proofread and edit their work, but must submit their own ideas and only their own ideas.
Career and College Readiness (CCR):
Image is part of the CCR department at Mercer Island High School which places emphasis on the value and importance of employability and leadership. Students are encouraged to prepare for the workforce by reinforcing positive habits of punctuality, reliability, and teamwork in our courses.
Leadership Card:
Leadership is an integral part of education and required by the State of Washington to be incorporated into all CCR (Career and Career Readiness) courses in some form. Leadership activities provide opportunity for personal development and preparation for adult life. Successful life skills require you to practice leadership skills. These skills will be incorporated into FACSE (Family and Consumer Sciences Education) classroom activities and integrated with curriculum content. Leadership points will constitute 10% of the student’s final grade. Students will earn leadership points by participating in a variety of leadership activities. Students will be handed a copy of the Leadership Card which is where they will keep track of their points throughout the semester. This card clearly explains the activities students can participate in to earn points and how many points each activity is worth. It is the student’s responsibility to keep track of this form. At the end of the semester you will turn this form into Ms. Emery. You are expected to earn a total of 100 leadership points. See Leadership Card for further instructions.
Cellphone/Electronics Policy:
Cellphones, iPads, and other electronics are meant to be used in the classroom to enhance student learning ONLY. If I see that a student is habitually using an electronic for something other than that purpose they will be asked to put the device away or stop using that particular application. In the event that a student is seen again misbehaving with their electronic it will be confiscated for the remainder of the period. If electronic distraction becomes a continuous problem a phone call will be made home or arrangements for a meeting will be made.
Ms. Emery’s Syllabus Agreement Form
One parent/guardian and the student are required to sign and date below in order for the student to participate in this class. Students will receive credit for turning in this signed page. Signing this page states that you understand and agree with all of the classroom expectations listed in the above document.
Student Name: ______Date: ______
Student Signature: ______
Parent/Guardian Signature: ______
Parent Email: ______
*Please double check Skyward that it contains your current email and phone number at which you would like to be contacted by. If there is a discrepancy please see the attendance office*
Parent Phone: ______
Do you have any preferences in how you would like to be contacted? Do you have anything you would like to share with me about your student? Does your student have any comments or questions? Please write them below. Any concerns will of course be kept confidential.