Welcome!
From Mr. Tracy:
This website is designed to help you - student and parent alike - to stay informed about the classes I teach and the tasks assigned during the semester. Please feel free to navigate through the site by using the links on the left-hand menu bar.
As a teacher, I have come to believe there are three qualities which enable people to understand and learn:
- objectivity, which means possessing an open mind to new (and old) ideas
- intelligence, which is a critical faculty to discern the truth and meaning from a text
- enthusiasm, which is composed of interest and commitment
With these three qualities - coupled with organization, responsibility and respect - every student can be successful.
I can be contacted by email, by phone, or in person by appointment.
519-759-3210 ext. 271-463
Plagiarism and Late Assignment Policy
Students must understand that the tests/exams they complete and the assignments they submit for evaluation must be their own work and that cheating and plagiarism will not be condoned.
Any work (including art work, media work, music, performance tasks and other forms of student work) submitted by a student may be checked for plagiarism, including through an electronic system, and be held in the database for future matching purposes and protection of the student’s work against copying by others.
In order to ensure that any mark deduction does not result in a percentage mark that, in the professional judgment of the teacher, misrepresents the student’s actual achievement, the penalty for late submission of work will be 10% of the final grade for the assignment.
All assignments for this course may be required to be submitted via Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included in the Turnitin.com database for the detection of subsequent cases of plagiarism.
TURNITIN.COM
To comply with the plagiarism policy now in place, please ensure you have enrolled in the proper course on the website www.turnitin.com The process to register is easy and nearly painless:
If you are a New User:
- click on "New User"
- Choose "Would you like to create your user profile?"
- Select "Student" under "Create a New Account" on the right hand column
- Enter in all the requested information, including the Course ID and password (below)
If you are a returning User:
- Log in, using your password
- Add a class, using the Course ID and password (below)
If you are a returning User, but you have forgotten your password:
- On the homepage, click on "Forgot Password"
- Fill in your email address
- Check your email (and your junk email box) for a message from turnitin.com for a reminder
In future, ALL written assignments will be uploaded to this website, unless otherwise instructed. This requires you to upload from home, or from the school. Please note that this action is due the same day (by midnight) as the written good copy is due to be handed into me.
For the Fall/Winter terms of 2011-2012, the class ID and passwords are as follows:
SEMESTER ONE
Period Class Class ID Class Password
Two ENG1Dd 4305171 mrtracy
Three ENG4Cb 4305174 mrtracy
Four ENG3Ua 4305175 mrtracy
SEMESTER TWO
Period Class Class ID Class Password
Two ENG TBA mrtracy
Three ENG TBA mrtracy
Four ENG TBA mrtracy
MLA Style
All essays written in university level courses in English are expected to be written in MLA format (Modern Language Association). Please refer to this easy-to-use and handy website to help you format your work properly:
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