Course Requirements and Grading Standards for Part I

Instructor's reguirements of students:

1. Participate in class discussion and take good notes.
2. Memorize the 28 Principles of Liberty - recite them to the class.
3. Take daily quizzes and periodic exams.
4. While studying The Five Thousand Year Leap, keep a notebook showing at least one current event or issue as it relates to each of the 28 Principles of Liberty. If your state legislature is in session, obtain some proposed bills from the legislature. These can also be used as current issues in the notebook.
   1. Choose current issues that relate to government or politics rather than crimes like murder, abuse, etc.
   2. Include article or clipping
   3. Describe the principle to which it relates.
   4. Tell how it supports or violates this principle.
   5. Be prepared to share your findings with the class - one per week.

Grading Standards:

Assignment	% of grade
Daily quizzes (one per lesson)	15
Current issue reports to class	10
28 Principles Notebook	10
28 Principles Recitation	10
Memorization of Constitution (Part II)	10
Constitution Study Reports (Part II)	15
Exams (5)	30

Explanations:

Daily quizzes are a means to insure notes are taken and reviewed. Because there are so many, a student receives credit if he/she gets half or more correct. Quizzes are corrected in class.

Current issue reports could be chosen from their 28 Principle notebook. This is an oral presentation.

The notebook and the recitation should be completed and turned in upon completion of Part I of the course.

Exams are given periodically throughout the course, usually after 10-15 lessons. Notice the exams contain the exact same questions that were contained in the daily quizzes. This provides another way to reinforce the ideas taught. Students should be told at the beginning that they will see these questions (on the daily quizzes) again and they should not be taken lightly. Notice also that the questions are fill in the blank or short answer. While this makes a test a little more difficult to grade, it provides way to really determine if the student knows the material or not. Because of the thoroughness of the exams and because our goal is not to trick students but to help them learn the material, exams with answers are provided several days before the exam is taken. This provides yet another method to teach these concepts to the students. (It also makes for interesting, positive comments from home from parents who are learning right along with the students as they drill their children on the material to be tested)