Medical Policy & Make Up Assignment

The Physical Education Medical Policy is as follows:

  1. Students experiencing ANY medical concerns must communicate with their teacher.
  2. A parent/guardian note must be presented to teacher and will excuse student from P.E. for up to three days. You will remain in P.E. To receive participation credit for the day, you will be required to complete an assignment during that class period.
  3. Any medical condition, injury, or illness extending to more than three consecutive days will require a note from a physician. The note will be presented to the school nurse.
  4. Any student whose medical excuse covers a week or more will complete the department’s weekly medically excused assignment.

Physical Education Makeup Assignment:

Student who are unable to physically participate in Physical Education for an excused reason must complete an alternative assignment for an opportunity to receive the points missed while unable to participate. The makeup assignment works toward the departments goal of helping students become Health Literate young adults.

Health literacy is defined as the knowledge of health information needed to make good choices about your health. For this assignment, students will chose a current and relevant article of interest from a reputable news source (internet, newspaper, or magazine) and write a one paragraph summary and a one paragraph reaction to the article. Students should follow expectation guidelines below to make sure they receive full credit. This work should be emailed to the student's teacher when complete.

Approved Topics: Physical Fitness, Health, Nutrition, Fitness, or Wellness

Article Review Guidelines

Requirements

  1. Include the following in your header; Name, Date, Class Period, title of article, and the date you did not participate in class.

  2. The summary and reflection needs to be in paragraph form, which contains a topic sentence, and enough sentences to support it effectively.

  3. Article must be from a valid source.

  4. Citing your source: The source (hyperlink) or printed copy of the article

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First Paragraph

(Summary)

General overview or summary of the article you selected.   You must address the 3 questions below within your paragraph (2pts each)

  1. What is the main topic of the article?

  2. Who is involved?/ Who does it affect? How does this affect you?

  3. How might this information be used by teens/society?

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Second Paragraph

(Reflection)

Write a reflection about the information presented in the article. You must address the 4 questions below within your paragraph

  1. Why did you choose this article?  

  2. What are your personal feelings/reactions to this article?

  3. What are a few things you learned from reading this article?

  4. Do you agree or disagree with the information presented in your article?

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Other

Please Note: Late articles will lose 10% per day.

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