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Appropriate Cellphone use, during class time is...

Learn the appropriate and inappropriate ways to use your cellphone during class time. Follow the guidelines to ensure a productive learning environment. Special circumstances can be discussed with the teacher.

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Appropriate Cellphone use, during class time is...

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  1. Appropriate Cellphone use, during class time is... • As a learning tool • During specified teacher directed times • Having your phone face down on your desk and you are still engaged and productive • Utilizing the phone as a positive, constructive tool for humanity

  2. Inappropriate Cell Phone use during class time is... • Using social media (this includes texting and messaging) • Gaming • As a distraction from learning and/or as a way to distract others • Watching videos/Youtube • Taking pictures/videos

  3. If you have a special circumstance... • Let me know as you enter the classroom if you must have your phone out, and we can talk about that. • Put your phone on vibrate, and it must be face down. • Quietly step outside to take the call or answer a text--just outside the door, so if I stick my head out I can see you • Come back ready to re-engage in the lesson

  4. When your cell phone use becomes a problem... • I will ask you to put the phone away the first time • If this is a repeated problem (that period, or daily) discipline action will be taken (phone call home, office referral) SOLUTION: Pay attention to the teacher’s frustration with your phone use. Be respectful of the learning environment and other students’ right to learn.

  5. When you use your phone, remember to THINK T= Is it TRUE? H= Is it HELPFUL? I= Is it INSPIRING? N= Is it NECESSARY? K= Is it KIND?

  6. My classroom basics: • Water only. • Phones away, unless I’ve said something different. • If you leave, phones go in the basket. Only one person gone at time. • I have to see your eyes and ears--no hoods. Hats are okay, as long as I can see your eyes. • Gum is okay, as long as you don’t chew like a cow (simile) and I don’t hear it or see it (no cracking or popping, no bubbles, no playing with it). • Obviously, (and this should go without saying) we are respectful here. No offensive or hurtful language. Everybody is valued.

  7. 9/7 Journals: We have will have a journal MOST days. Please write your journal on a clean piece of paper, with a full heading (first and last name, date, period) in the top right corner of the page. Please take out a piece of paper and something to write with (pen, preferably), and then take everything else off your desk. Put your name, date and period in the top, right hand corner of the paper. Usually, on Friday I will have you choose which journal (from the four that week) to turn in. However, this week, you will write today and tomorrow, and then turn in both journals tomorrow. This is writing practice, so it will be scored as practice.

  8. 9/7 Today’s journal is about you. Tomorrow’s journal will be a pre-write for our first unit, which we will start after our Reading Assessment (the Article of the Week) next week. This is a 3-2-1 Journal. 3--Tell me THREE interesting things you learned yesterday. 2--Write TWO things I need to know about you. 1--ask me ONE question you still have about me or the class.

  9. 9/8 Our first unit is about “The American Ethos” which is, basically: What does it mean to be an American? So--before we get into all the reading--all the nitty gritty of it, tell me your thoughts. Things to think about--how has “Being an American” changed in the past 200+ years? What was important to the men who founded this country? What has changed since then? What’s important now? Important terms to think about (I’m sure there are others--feel free to write about terms that come to mind for you--these are just to give you ideas):

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