1. Classroom Procedures
Mrs. Robyn Russell

2. Don’t be Offensive You have the right to sit next to clean students
Take a bath, wash your hair, and use deodorant
Brush your teeth and hair
Put on clean clothes
If your shoes stink
Put them outside to air out
Put a dryer sheet in them at night
Your civil rights end where your neighbor’s begin…so watch what you say!

3. Entering the Classroom
Enter with respect
Are you in dress code?
Check the board for today’s agenda
Get out all needed materials
Anything due? If so…turn it in
Test Day? Begin reviewing
iPads charged and ready to go

4. Tardies
Get seated quickly without drawing any more attention to yourself
Do NOT speak to your friends/me as you enter
Check the board for today’s agenda and get started
Hold questions until I come to you
See me about why you were tardy before you leave

5. Restroom Not OKAY if OKAY to go if
Acting up, forgot homework, you were tardy, we have visitors, I’m lecturing/reading, we’re testing, you’ve asked every day for a week or if I say, “No, not now.”
OKAY to go if
Emergencies only when work is done, behavior is great, it doesn’t disturb other students’ learning, and you rarely ask.

6. Neatness Clean up after yourself If you drop it, pick it up
If you didn’t drop it, pick it up anyway
No rough edges on papers turned in
If I can’t read it, I won’t grade it

7. Food and Drink Eat breakfast and lunch in the cafeteria
You may bring water bottle with screw on caps ONLY (no lids with straws)
Snacks must be eaten and disposed of before tardy bell rings

8. Daily Work
Journals - 10 sentences each – Day One (on iPads) – do night before
Vocabulary – discuss defined words
Literary terms – discuss defined words
Daily content - be on task at all times and be prepared

9. Journals
Each day you will have a journal topic – write the night before in Day One and be ready to discuss.
How long?
10 sentences - journal topics could be in the form of a quote, a song, a picture, or etc.

10. Vocabulary & Literary Terms
Vocabulary Words - 5 per day to define
Literary terms - 2 per day to define
Also, know one example of each term
Vocabulary Help and Games

11. Daily Content We will read and study most of the following
Short stories
Poetry
Novels
Speeches
Drama

12. Turning in Work Proper heading (name, date, & period)
Edited for mistakes
Papers in order and stapled neatly
Put work in proper bin labeled for your period and not on my desk

13. Makeup Work if Absent You have your bell ringers
Check the website if you are able and get started on any content assignments
Check with me the first day you are back, whether it’s the day I see you or now
Make arrangements to come before/after school or during lunch (I stay most days until 4 pm except Friday)

14. Best Way to Reach Me

15. Substitutes
You are expected to be on your best behavior when a sub is in my classroom
There will ALWAYS be a handout with detailed instructions for you to follow
Turn in all work before you leave class because once you leave it’s a zero
Do not mistreat a sub or you will pay with added work and behavior modifications for your class period

16. Leaving the Classroom
Do not start getting ready to go until I tell you that you can - I will try to give you at least 2 minutes each day to close up shop
Make sure your area is neat (books, papers, trash, and etc.)
No running, pushing, shoving, or yelling
No standing at the door waiting to go
I dismiss you NOT THE BELL

17. Anything else?
There may be other things that arise and as they do, I will let you know or feel free to ask.
Do you have any other questions about procedures that you are interested in knowing before you leave today?

18. The end.