Schedules
Traditional Schedule
For the school year starting 2011, MCHS will operate under a traditional seven period day. Students will take 6 classes and a study hall or 7 classes. Most classes will meet all year for 50 minutes a day. Semester long classes will meet half the year from August to December or January to May.
Daily Schedule for 2011-12
Period 1 7:50-8:40 (50 minutes)
Period 2 8:45-9;35 (50 minutes)
Period 3 9:40-10:30 (50 minutes)
Period 4 10:35-12:20 (65 minutes)
Period 5 12:25-1:15 (50 minutes)
Period 6 1:20-2:10 (50 minutes)
Period 7 2:15-3:05 (50 minutes)
Lunch
4A 10:30-11:10 AB Class = 10:35-11:40
4B 11:10-11:45 A Class = 10:35-11:05
C Class = 11:45-12:20
4C 11:45-12:20 BC Class = 11:15-12:20
How do the grades work?
As a freshman, for the first time in your education, grades become permanent. Your term grades are kept on a piece of paper called a transcript that can be sent to universities and employers.
Morris Community High School uses a school wide grading scale:
100 - 92 A
91 - 83 B
82 - 74 C
73 - 65 D
64 - 0 F
You will receive a report card at the end of each quarter (nine weeks) that will list grades. These grade are a progress report unless the class is a quarter class (Driver's Ed, keyboarding and speech). Final grades will be 85% grade and 15% final exam. For more up-to-date grades throughout the grading period, use powerschool.
Block Scheduling
Morris Community High School used a 4 x 4 block system from 1996 to 2011.
Every student took 4 courses that met for 89 minutes every day.
The calendar year included four nine-week grading periods where the standard class was worth .5 credits per nine-week term.
Classes ranged in length from nine weeks to thirty-six weeks.
A typical "year-long" course was completed in 2 terms (half-of the year) since the course met every day for almost 90 minutes.
