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Mr. Welchel

Room 419

Sit at a desk with an index card and write

your first and last name on the card

Mr. Welchel

Room 419

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SuppliesMust have them EVERY DAY

• Spiral Notebook– 3 Subject

– Preferably with pockets in the dividers

• Pencil

• Pens (blue/black ink or colored for checking assignments)

• Black pen for map labeling

• Planner

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Supplies for INB KitsPlease bring these by the end of the week

• 1st Period – 1 pair of small scissors

• 3rd Period – 2 glue sticks

• 4th Period – 2 hand-held pencil sharpeners

• 5th Period – 1 pack of colored pencils

• 6th Period – 2 erasers and 2 black pens

• 7th Period – 2 red pens

Two Semester Course

• Pre-AP Skills

• Class Work

• Quizzes

• Tests

• Projects

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Typical Class Period

1. Brief recap of previous

day/announcements

2. Grade assignments that

are due

3. Notes/Discussion of

new topics

4. Group Work/Discussion

5. Individual Work reviewing

topics discussed in class

Contact Information

• Email: kevin.welchel@humble.k12.tx.us

• Phone: 281-641-5282

• Remind 101: text @mrwelche to

281-940-3527

• Email is most efficient method of first

contact due to class periods I am out of

the classroom.

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Responsibilities of the Student

• Keep an assignment book/planner

• Keep up your Interactive Notebook (INB) with all things done in class

– Keep an up-to-date Table of Contents

• Make-up work or notes that you miss

• CONSISTENTLY check the class website

• Come to tutoring if you want or need clarification on notes/work

Tutoring Times

• Tuesday and Friday Mornings

– 7:50-8:20

• Tuesday and Thursday Afternoons

– 4:05-4:45

• The door is always open

• If you have questions or

need to work, have your

parents write you a pass

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Class Website

• http://www.humbleisd.net/wms

– Go to Teacher Websites and click on “Welchel,

Kevin”

– Or go to http://www.humbleisd.net//Domain/2401

• Assignments, Notes and Announcements will

be posted on the website.

• The textbook is also located

online from the class website

Grading

• Formative: 30%– Class Work

– Homework

• Summative: 70%– Tests

– Quizzes

– Projects

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Late Work Policy• If you do not turn in an

assignment, a “0” will be

put into the grade book

until it is turned in.

• If you are absent, an “0”

will be put in the grade

book until the assignment is

turned in.

• Parents notification will be made after the 2nd

zero in the grade book, or if a pattern of late work is occurring.

Test Days

• Days of the week when

tests occur may change

throughout the year

• Talking during a quiz or

test, copying another

student’s work or

allowing someone to copy

work will result in a “0”

and an office referral will

be written

• Code of Honor

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Exploration and Colonization

Colonial America

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Independence and the

American Revolution

Constitution and

American Government

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The New

Republic

The Jeffersonian Era

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Industrial Revolution

and Sectionalism

Jacksonian Democracy

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Manifest Destiny and

Westward Migration

Immigration Culture and Reform

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Antebellum America –

The Causes of the Civil War

The Civil War –

The War Between the States

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Reconstruction