EXTRA CREDIT
If you ever need to or if you ever want
to do extra credit here is what you do:
1.
Choose
any section of any chapter we have not yet studied.
2.
Read
and summarize the chapter section. A
summary of less than 150 words, about three-fourths of a page of 12point font,
is not likely to be accepted. It will
most certainly not get a passing grade. If counting words is important to you,
you should know that it is my policy to never count the same word twice and
words of four or fewer letters are not counted at all. If you write a good solid summary you will
not have to worry about the length of the summary.
3.
If
there are practice problems or review problems or questions in the chapter
section you have chosen to summarize they must be solved or answered as part of
the Chapter Summary.
4.
For
Pre-AP Physics you must answer all of the questions at the end of the section
review.
5.
For
Conceptual Physics you must answer the review questions for that section that
are found at the end of the chapter.
6.
For
Astronomy you must figure out which ‘end of chapter’ questions pertain to the
chapter section you summarized. It is
OK if you answer outside of that chapter section but it is not OK to miss any.
7.
All
Extra Credit work must by typed.
The
grade you earn on the extra credit is subject to the following conditions:
1.
Extra
credit cannot be graded until the work the extra credit is being done for is
done and has earned a grade of 85 or above
2.
In
fairness to your classmates who turned their work in one time or who earned a
passing grade to begin with, you will be given 85% of your earned extra credit
grade. The highest possible grade for
any extra credit is 85%.
You
may do as many extra credit works as you like and you may turn them in at any
time. The due date for any extra credit
for a particular six weeks is three days before the end of that particular six
weeks; however, there is not a 100% guarantee that I will have time to grade
all of the extra credits that are turned in.
Any extra credit that is turned in after this time will not be graded
for that particular six weeks. It will
be returned to you.
Since I will always give my best effort and time to
those students who do their work well and on time, it could happen that because
of an unusually heavy load of papers to grade for regular credit, I will run
out of time to grade any extra credit. Thus, if you must do an extra credit the
earlier you get it turned in the better chance there is that I will have time
to grade it. If you wait until the last
possible second there is a very good chance that I will run out of time and I
will not be able to grade your work. Do
not take this personally! Rather, do
not put yourself in a position where you need to do extra credit and if you do
then do the extra credit as early as possible.
The grade you earn on the extra credit will replace the grade
of the work you need to be raised.