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Social Studies Guidelines and Expectations

Classroom Routine

 Your teacher will outline the expectations they have for you about arrival to class and
getting set up each lesson

Social Studies Book Standards

• Use a blue or black pen for writing.

• Headings must be underlined in red pen using a ruler.
• Construct graphs and maps in pencil with labels/annotations in pen.
• You may leave a page at the start of each topic for a title page (this is optional) then your topic
glossary should be glued in.
• Your Current Events Quiz answers can go in the back of your book each week.
• Your book should contain neat work of a high standard.

How to set up your Social Studies documents on your device

 In your OWN documents on your device, set up a Y10 SOCIAL STUDIES folder
 Inside that folder, set up the following folders:
o Water! Water! Everywhere?
o The Pursuit of Happiness
o Cool Karma Cola
o eWaste
o Earth on the Move
o Le Quesnoy – Liberation Centenary
o Other
  Each Lesson from the topic should be saved to This PC  Documents Social Studies Folder
 Topic folder in your own documents.
 You will then work from the saved version and add your own work to it. Keep saving as you
complete tasks.
 Back-up your work regularly, an external hard drive at home is a good idea!
 Ensure you make the work you add to each Lesson a different font and colour (easily
read) so your teacher can identify your task completion.
 Your teacher will indicate how they wish to view and mark your work.

IF YOU ARE UNCLEAR ABOUT HOW TO DO ANY OF THE TASKS ABOVE, PLEASE SEE YOUR TEACHER
SO THEY CAN HELP YOU!!!

Your teacher will also go through the Course Outline for 2018 with you, highlighting the Assessment
and Homework Policy which you will take home, discuss with a parent/guardian, sign and then glue
into the front of your book.

 Save all of your work to This PC  Documents Social Studies Folder  Topic folder as we
work through the tasks. At various times throughout the year, you will upload these to
OneNote in a section identified by the name of the unit for checking alongside the tasks you
have completed in your book.