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Underclassmen Close-Out Days
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Work can still be turned in through May 8. Work can be turned in to better your grade.
If you are failing, please do your work. You don't want to fail this class after having 6 weeks to do it! Tick tock! If you have an opportunity, please drop off your copy of Night by Elie Wiesel. Place a sticky note to tell admin who is dropping off a copy and to which teacher (ME!). They have the book numbers. If you don't turn in your copy, you will be charged a fee. Did you grades do something nutso today? They did? Cool. Welcome to the new semester grade! Don't like your grade? Do you want it to be better? Then I can illuminate a way for you to have a better grade and maybe learn something along the way.
Work, can I say how important and BENEFICIAL it would be for you to turn in your work? I have, but I will say it again. Do the work. It improves your grade and does not hurt it. That is a good thing! Packets for this week's work are due this Friday. We will send out work again this upcoming Thursday. All work is due by May 8. If you are failing after May 8, then you will receive a phone call about failing my class, which would be silly since it's not that much work and you have had several WEEKS to do it. So, here's the plan. If you need assistance, I am available from 12-2 pm via email or Zoom. Please email me before hand if you need me to hop on Zoom for you. After 2, I am online with my college students and presenting Zoom lectures and assisting them.
Email--my best friend, your best friend. You can email me any time, but my hours of response are from 12-2 pm and 4-8 pm (for everyone, including my college students). Yes, your grades are changing, but...if you do the work, your grade for S2 can improve, but it cannot get worse. Cool, huh? So, why shoot yourself in the foot? Improved grade=happy you, right? Turn in your work! That is the gist of our meeting today. Here's a fun parody of Green Eggs and Ham:
I want your work via email. I want your work by paper. I want your work in Google Classroom. I want to get your work however I can. Remember that you can drop off the work (labeled with your name, my name, and each assignment name) to the gray box at the high school OR at Dyer. Power School is up to date. Missing work is denoted with zeroes. After 19 days (yikes! We have been out that long), there should not be missing work.
Remember that if you cannot upload it to Google Classroom, you can simply email it to me by composing the email (not typing the entire email in the subject line) or take a picture and send it via email. Either way, I need the work. No new packets will be sent out. Teachers are having online meetings tomorrow to determine what is going to happen next. However, I will call parents and update them on the progress of students who are failing my class. Do not ignore "restricted" calls because that will be my call or another teacher's call. Thank you to the parents and students who took the time out of the eleven days before spring break to complete work and submit it via Google Classroom. You are a blessing!
For those of you who are in a panic about your grades, I set my phone down Friday afternoon (March 27) and decided to have the weekend for my family. For eleven days, I answered emails from 8 am until 10:30 pm, even on the weekends. I answered panicked messages on Google Classroom and tried to explain how to take a screenshot of ChompChomp because it does not tell Google Classroom or me how many you answered correctly. I charged my phone twice a day so that I would not be at my computer for twelve hours a day. I apologize that you were inconvenienced this weekend and did not receive answers to emails or messages on Google Classroom about late assignments and zeroes. Please remember that there are 45 of you total in my two sections. You are not an island to yourself, and if you are turning in a mountain of late work or sending a ton of panicked messages, multiply that by 40 (5 people have done what they were supposed to do and have current grades). I will update grades this week. Okay, people, we are in uncharted territory for you and me. In my fourteen years of teaching, I have never had to deal with a pandemic (ice/snow storms, yes, illness to this magnitude, no), so bear with me.
Your Night project is still due! I have uploaded the directions into Google Classroom in case you lost it or cannot find it on my website. Your revised essay is still due. For those of you that I have left comments, please revise and edit and then email it to me. If you did not finish it in class on Friday, you are still expected to finish it and email it to me. When I receive it, I will leave comments for you to revise and edit for a final submission. Assignments have been uploaded into Google Classroom. The reading can be found in your info binder. If you do not have your info binder, I have uploaded the documents into Google Classroom. These reading assignments are meant to practice your informational reading skills that are sorely lacking. This is NOT new material or learning, just additional practice. You are accountable for getting the work completed. Here is what you are to complete over the next two weeks: George Takei's "Why I love the country that betrayed me" ---I handed this out on Monday. The questions are uploaded with the document and an additional Google Doc is attached to exercise your comparison and contrast skills. "Advice to the Newly Married Lady" can be found on pages 111-113 in your info binder. Answer the questions. "Our Deportment, or the Manners, Conduct, and Dress of Refined Society" can be found on pages 114-115. The questions can be found on the PDF attached to the Google Classroom assignment. If you are a parent checking this, we set up a Google Classroom for your student BEFORE he/she left. The access code is yzul76b. Today, for those students who turned in their essays on Friday, I have returned their argumentative essays. They have until March 25 to edit and revise based on my comments. If anyone does not understand how to revise or edit the essay, he or she can stay after school for additional assistance.
Tonight, students will read George Takei's "Why I love my country that betrayed me" for homework. We will discuss the speech tomorrow. Because my student teacher has been pulled due to Corona virus concerns (UTM's decision, not mine or the district's), the test over Night will be on Wednesday March 18. The Night project is still due this Friday, March 20. The vocab quiz over chapters 6-9 of Night will also be this Friday. We will move on to narrative writing! Fun times! We will play around with this writing style on Friday and continue to develop our writing skills until the writing assessment on April 16. If you did not finish your genocide essay in class, you are required to stay after school and finish it by Wednesday, March 18th. If you do not, you will have more to fix and fewer notes to help you correct your essay.
For Monday, read Elie Wiesel's "The Perils of Indifference" on pages 66-70 in your info binder. As you read, annotate by looking for rhetorical devices (similes, metaphors, allusions, imagery, P&R, RQ) and variety of punctuation (dashes, parenthesis, ellipses, etc.). You are not required to do the questions on pages 71-73, but if you want to complete them, you may. Finally, for those of you who did not do well on the Info binder pgs 84-85 questions or the Eva Bunting questions w/ printed page for you to re-do, you are required to make those up by Wednesday March 18. Your lack of explanation and simple one word answers are not acceptable. Details, people, details. If it took you ten minutes to finish it, then you did yourself a disservice. |
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