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Thursday, November 19, 2015

Here are the polls the students in the 10th grade have created as a project. Please answer as honestly as possible whenever you have the time. These polls could probably also be completed by the 7th and 8th graders if you believe they are mature enough to understand and take it seriously. Thank you so much

Water Rights

School Preference (parents and adults)

Teen Pregnancy

Marijuana

Leukemia

No Cut sports policy

Quality of teachers

Quality of Education

What do people know about Oasis?

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Revolutionary War Project!

Today is the Premier of the full news coverage assignment for the Revolutionary War. All members of the Oasis Academy community are encouraged and welcome to attend. I am hoping this will bring out the best in our students if they know the work they are doing is appreciated by everyone around them. Thank you all so much for your support.

Monday, August 31, 2015

Revolutionary War Timeline

This week students in US history will be completing digital timeline of the 40 most important events of the Revolutionary war. These Timeline will be able to be reproduced here on the blog. Also if you ever want to know what your students are doing check their google classroom as every assignment will be on google classroom.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Syllabus

Thank  you so much for your surveys and the chance to teach your brilliant and interesting students. It's been a wild week with too much to sum up right now but I want to make sure I give you all a chance to read over my syllabus.


Mr. Martin
Syllabus 2015-2016

Mr. Martin’s class is a place of learning and respect. Respect yourself, each other, and learning.

Contact Information:
  • Email: wmartin@oasisacademyfallon.us
  • Google Classroom: 1st. 5xife4 2nd. t062i5j 3rd. 9pk0ltv  4th. odqj78p
  • Twitter: @MrMartinOA
  • Instagram:

Required Materials: Bring your chrome book every day, bring a thumb drive in case the internet becomes spotty.

Classroom Expectations
Individual Behavioral Expectations:
Students will work with teacher the first week of class to write a list of classroom behavioral expectations based on respecting all students, the educator, and the subject matter.
Group Work Expectations:
Students will be expected to collaborate on many projects. This process will result in many individual grades. Students will also be expected to work well with others in their group in a mature and respectful manner. If students are not respectful to each others time and effort this will be cause for progressive discipline.
Rigor and Communication:
The goal of this class is to be educational and fun but it will also at times be difficult. It is the responsibility of the student to advocate for themselves and communicate with the educator about any confusion or difficulty that a student is having with the subject or the material in class.
Grading Policy:
I will attempt to grade everything that’s turned in within 3 days. Obviously there are certain things like project portfolios or writing projects that might take longer. In this case the assignments that are turned in will be marked as turned in and the grades will be entered as they are corrected.
Grading Scale:
A 100-90
B 89-80
C 79-70
D 69-60
F 59-below


Late Work Policy:
Once an assignment is late you will be assigned study hall with me for that day to make it up. If an assignment is over 1 week late it is worth 50%. All school late work policies apply.
Cheating/Plagiarism Policy:
If a student uses the words of another person or source it is plagiarism. Plagiarism is an automatic 0 on the assignment. If this assignment is a large assignment it can be made up as a late assignment. Cheating is when you copy the answers for an assignment from someone else. Because every assignment is important for your learning this assignment will be given a 0 and students will have study hall until they do it on their own.
Progressive Discipline Plan:
Every single offense is documented
  • 1st offense, a warning.
  • 2nd offense, a conversation after class, and possible study hall if class time is wasted
  • 3rd offense, A phone call home and a conversation with parents about expectations

Rewards:
Every quarter there is a “class prize” based on class points for things like but not limited to; highest combined grade, best attendance, everyone being prepared, everyone turning in assignments, winning presentation, best behavior. This class prize will be decided by the students as a whole.

Thursday, August 13, 2015

We The People

Here is a link to the interest form for We The People. http://goo.gl/forms/6bcH17e5k5

Here is the link to the We The People http://www.civiced.org/programs/wtp

We The People is a competition based club. The objective is to prepare the students for a public "hearing" in which the students will answer a question relating to the constitution and current events and then defend their answer in front of a panel of judges.

In order to be successful students will need an in depth knowledge of the competition, they will need to be able to speak confidently in public, they will need to answer all the judges questions with evidence based answers.

The district competition will be 12/12/15 at UNR.

If you have any more information please let me know.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Back to School Night

I  can't wait to meet you all. Below is a link to the Parent Survey I'd like all of you to fill out so I can customize my class to what you want and need for your students. If you click the link below it will bring you to a brief survey. Thank you so much.

http://goo.gl/forms/k0HvKbVSSz

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Abject Excitement!

Hello Parents and Students. I am extremely excited to get started this year and tomorrow I am honored to see our new classroom for the first time. Many teachers are posting supply lists and I will also be posting one. Every year I try to tailor my curriculum to my students and their parents, and this year will be no different. So my first assignment is for everyone reading the blog, in the comments section please post your goals and expectations for yourself or your student in my class.

Now to supplies. I am attempting to (emphasis on attempt) use as little paper as possible and use the computers for everything. Obviously a pencil and paper won't hurt but right now the only thing I can think of that my be really useful is a thumb drive incase the internet goes out to transfer files.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to teach your students I literally can't wait to get started.