TEST/QUIZ CORRECTIONS
See our Google Classroom for a template.
GENERAL GUIDELINES
You may correct an unlimited number of tests and quizzes in order to improve your grade. Test and/or quiz corrections are accepted up to five school days after handing back an original test or quiz. You must keep your original test/quiz in order to complete corrections. A misplaced test/quiz means your forfeit the opportunity to improve your grade.
INSTRUCTIONS
Instead of retaking a test or quiz, you correct it. Take your original test or quiz and work only with the questions you got wrong. Submit the following information (for only the questions you got wrong) on a separate piece of paper along with your original test.
- The correct answer for the question.
- An explanation as to why that answer is the correct answer.*
- A sincere, specific, and reflective explanation as to why you got the question wrong.
*Here you are proving that you now understand this information. It is not acceptable to simply state that it is the correct answer because you, “read it in the book” or something similar. See the underlined explanation below as an example.
Example:
#4) The correct answer is B, “wanted to keep the US from supplying their enemy”. Cutting off supplies to an enemy country is a war tactic. Both Britain and France wanted to prevent each other from obtaining goods in hopes they would lack the necessary materials to win the war. I got this question wrong because I confused this war between Britain and France with the war Tripoli declared on the United States. I thought the question referred to the Barbary States pirates.
Your corrections should be typed, or written very neatly, on a separate sheet of paper. It will be returned and not graded if it cannot be read. You will have points added to your score for each corrected question if you supply ALL THE NECESSARY INFORMATION and show the appropriate EFFORT. These points are not automatic. You have to earn them. The maximum number of points you can earn is 50% (or half) of what you lost – e.g.; you score a 50% on a test. If you get a 100% on the retake, your final grade is a 75%.
PROJECT/CLASSWORK/WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT RE-DOs
GENERAL GUIDELINES
You may redo an unlimited number of project/classwork/written assignments in order to improve your grade. Redos are accepted up to five school days after handing back an original project/classwork/written assignment. You must keep your original in order to complete a redo (so you know what went wrong in the first place). A misplaced project/classwork/written assignment means your forfeit the opportunity to improve your grade.
INSTRUCTIONS
You may not simply fix your mistakes for full credit. A project/classwork/written assignment must be redone from scratch. The new project/classwork/written assignment will replace the old grade completely (whether it is better or worse than the original).
EXAMPLES
Articles of Confederation in Visuals – Project
Recreate the visual using a new, clean paper. Be sure to read the rubric and to review your original project to ensure the same mistakes are not made again.
Supreme Court Trial – Written Assignment
Rewrite the majority opinion in your case. Be sure to read the rubric and to review your original written assignment to ensure the same mistakes are not made again.
Geography Challenge! – Classwork
Take a clean copy of the Geography Challenge! from the extras bin. Read the directions and complete each step fully and correctly. Be sure to review your original assignment to ensure the same mistakes are not made again.
EXCEPTIONS
Presentations cannot be redone. Instead you will be given another option to improve your grade for this specific type of project. See me for these specific instructions.