PERSONAL FITNESS SYLLABUS:

Monarch High School
Physical Education Department

Teacher: Ms. Butler                           Course: Personal Fitness                           Phone: 754-322-3126

E-Mail: pamela.butler@browardschools.com                                                       Planning: 7:40-9:20

Materials Required: Paper and a writing utensil
Proper dress out clothes and shoes

Textbooks: Personal Fitness For You: Hunter Textbook Inc.


Course Purpose: This course is designed to develop and enhance healthy behaviors that influence students’ lifestyle choices, health, and fitness.

Course Requirements:
Classroom work, Fitness labs, and Written tests and quizzes
Fitness assessments – pre and post

Rules for Success:
*Be in the locker room before the tardy bell rings
*Use your own locker and wear your own clothes
*Dress out regardless of weather conditions
*Use appropriate social skills, showing respect for yourself and others at all times
*Be a “Knight”, exhibit all characteristics found in the knight’s code of conduct

Grading system:
Dress out/Participation, fitness assessments, and labs = 50%
Classroom assignments, homework, written tests, and quizzes = 50%

Course Content:
-Identifying your level of fitness
-Training for Fitness
-Nutrition and Weight Control
-Stress Management
-The Five Health Related Components of Fitness
-Designing a Fitness Program

Make Up Policy:
If you are absent from class you have two days for each absence to meet the following requirements: You may read an article, make a web of the main idea and supporting facts, and summarize the article, run one mile after school, or complete an FCAT worksheet that I will provide for you. There is a maximum limit of 5 ar