This is off subject of grading scales, but has anyone ever had to do a senior project? It was offered as an elective for us for the first time ever, but I seriously know nothing about it. How is it like, a class? What kind of projects take a whole school year to do? How is it graded? I'm just kinda confused.
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My school requires senior project to graduate. You can basically do it on anything, a lot of my friends who are student athletes do it on being a student athlete, my friends who have roots in other countries explore their heritage, and some do it on service.
I wanted to do mine on cheerleading and promoting the sports on our elementary and middle school levels, but I got an internship and was pushed to put that in my project. The result was marketing a better school atmosphere. We moved into a brand new building this year, and my project was to help improve the image of my school in the community.
You have to have 5 objectives and one has to be a research objective (usually reading a book), and a consultant in the topic (teachers, boss at a job). You also have to journal everything you do. After the first quarter you can even sign out of the period to work on the project, go to breakfast, go home early or do whatever. Everyone has a teacher who oversees their project but you don't get any grade for it, you just have to show them your journal from time to time. They help you pickout a presentation date, help you rehearse for the presentation and give the final grade on your notebook.
The presentation is basically an overview of the project where you have your SP teacher, consulant, student on a panel and the score you with Passing or Oustanding work. My school also has a surprise panelist who is usually an old faculty member.
The grading translates to Oustanding being an A, a Pass + to a B and a pass is a C at the end. On our report cards it's a P for passing until the end, and everytime you don't pass for whatever reason (not enough hours, journal) you lose a letter grade. If you fail the presentation you have to work on it in the summer to actually graduate.
I wrote a lot lol Senior Project is a big thing at my school, we are the only ones who do it in the county.