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WORLD HISTORY 9
MICHOLE MATTIX
[email protected]
2016-17
WORLD HISTORY 9
 Semester long course
 District requires 3.5 years of Social Studies for Graduation
 World History from 1400’s -1650’s
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Renaissance
Reformation
Scientific Revolution
The Americas: Aztec, Inca & Maya
Global Contact/Exploration
 CBA (Curriculum Based Assessment)
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Research paper on Technology Through the Ages
In class, 90%
Turn in online (using turnitin.com)
Right after 1 st quarter (November)
CLASSROOM
 Learning Target
 What we will learn and how we will learn it
 Due Dates/Test Dates
 No excuses/On the whiteboard
 Absentee Clipboard and Basket
 Taking responsibility
 Turn in basket by my desk
 Books – classroom, checked out (at home)
HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD SUCCEED
 My availability:
 PASS (Wednesdays & Thursdays and some Fridays); before school 7 -7:20;
2 nd lunch
 Study Hawks:
 Library after school, with computer access and peer tutors
 2-4; Bus leaves shortly after
 Get Organized:
 Planner or weekly homework/assignment sheet
 Use Binder or Folders
 Keep assignments for units
 Links and Documents on my website (MTHS, Staff, Mattix . . . )
 Not all assignments, but CBA materials and links!
 Check Skyward
 I update it every two weeks or sooner (CBAs take longer to grade)
 Late/make up is updated every two weeks (grade folder then)
 If you want to know if they turned it in, yet not graded yet, email me
HOMEWORK
 Usually only textbook assignment; but sometimes mini
projects and prepare for tests
 Also if they don’t finish in class might give for homework due next
day
 Typically 2 days a week, 20 -30 minutes
 CBA might be a bit more; depending on how well they use
class time
 Meant to supplement what we are learning in class, expand
the understanding of content
 Counts toward daily assignments/homework in grading
GRADING
 Based on 3 areas
 Daily assignments (homework too) and Participation is 35% of overall
grade
 Projects (group and individual) are 25% of overall grade
 Tests and Quizzes are 40% of overall grade
 CBA goes in Tests/Quizzes category; research and work
leading up to paper is Daily assignments/Participation
category
CONTACT
 I am part time, leave at 12:55
 Email is the best:
 [email protected]
 Goal to respond to emails in 24 hours; check them during my working
hours
 Website (MTHS, Staf f, Mattix . . . )
 Try to update regularly; but we are also slowly integrating Canvas
 Freshmen Administrator is Peter Schurke
 [email protected]
 Counselor another good resource (on school website you can
find your counselor by last name)
ABOUT ME
 Local
 Graduated from Lynnwood High School
 Live in Edmonds
 BA in Psychology at Western Washington University; Masters in
Teaching from Grand Canyon University
 Started teaching here in 1994 (strictly freshmen since 2009)
 Involvement:
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Girls Basketball Coach 1994-1999 Varsity; 2008-2009 JV
Boys Basketball Academic Advisor 2013-present
Peer Mediator Advisor 2003-present
Class of 2017 Co-Advisor 2013-present
 Family & Hobbies:
 Married since 1994 with 2 kids – 10th grade daughter and 7th grade son
 Enjoy walking my dog, yoga, photography and watching my kids in their
activities/sports