Hey - Read Me!

Grrr ... You MUST check this blog EVERY DAY & your email THREE TIMES A DAY! This is a price to pay for Distance Learning, since we cannot interact/assign/remind every day. I will most likely post here three times a week on the following schedule:

• Mon/Tues = Recap of Webinar, reminders, etc.
• Weds/Thurs  = Reminder to finish tasks, updates regarding the week, the quarantine, etc.
• Fri/Sat = Explanation of next week's tasks

The GooClass & Portal Grades will be updated/finalized today. Try to have EVERYTHING done by Friday (WIL by Sunday) & you should be good to go. There is a strong belief that Q4 grades will either be A-CR-NC or CR-NC. I wish if we followed that model at ALL times. 

SUBMIT YOUR IA VIA TURNITIN (Revision 2) ASAP!

I will have weekly task assignments "drip, drip, drip, drip" over Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon via GooClass. This way, those of you who do not like the "dump" can simply be assigned one thing each day, while those of you who DO like the dump can simply access everything via this blog. It's a compromise that I hope/think will work.

NEXT WEEK (Weds 5-6 or Thurs5-7), I am planning on having a special 1-hour ALL-CALL Webinar regarding the Holocaust documentary you will be assigned for earlier that week. It is too deep, sad, horrifying and emotionally draining for us to just watch one day and explore in a 25-minute mini-Webinar on Monday. So, I will ask everyone to watch it on Weds or Thurs then process as a large group that evening.

Again, if/when you experience or hear about something interesting, helpful, fun, etc. PLEASE TELL ME! These final 5 weeks will be guinea pig experimentation on ALL of us, and I regretfully believe we will begin your senior year with some Distance Learning component(s). I kind of like the "Read - Take Notes - Assigned Video - Choose Something to Learn & Share" model. If find it helpful, let me know. If not, here is your chance to offer something for us to try over the last 2-3 weeks.

For those of you planning on taking the IB HL Exam in 2021, I will be offering some 1-hr assignments each week over the Summer. These will NOT be required, but they are HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for you to do so you are not too far behind next year.