Dear Students,
I miss you so much already! Welcome to my blog, which has now become our digital learning platform. Per your suggestions, I am providing you with an outline of weekly instruction, assignments, and deadlines. You may work at your own pace, as long as you meet the set deadlines. However, for those of you who appreciate a more structured daily program, the calendar is still available to you. Please see the monthly calendar above this post. We will still be sticking closely to the calendar. You may also see the daily pacing guides that will be posted under this week's post. If you have any questions, please feel free to text me through remind, or you may click HERE to access the chat document. You MUST be signed in to your gmail account to chat. I will be available to chat in this documents between 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday-Friday. If you need additional support, please feel free to contact me through Remind to set up additional extended learning opportunities. See your weekly learning schedule below. Stay well!
Love,
Mrs. Crandall
I miss you so much already! Welcome to my blog, which has now become our digital learning platform. Per your suggestions, I am providing you with an outline of weekly instruction, assignments, and deadlines. You may work at your own pace, as long as you meet the set deadlines. However, for those of you who appreciate a more structured daily program, the calendar is still available to you. Please see the monthly calendar above this post. We will still be sticking closely to the calendar. You may also see the daily pacing guides that will be posted under this week's post. If you have any questions, please feel free to text me through remind, or you may click HERE to access the chat document. You MUST be signed in to your gmail account to chat. I will be available to chat in this documents between 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday-Friday. If you need additional support, please feel free to contact me through Remind to set up additional extended learning opportunities. See your weekly learning schedule below. Stay well!
Love,
Mrs. Crandall
This Week's Digital Learning Outline
- View Introduction to Romanticism: The Transcendentalists PowerPoint, take Cornell Notes, and complete guided journals. If you do not have a printer, you may recreate organizers on a piece of notebook paper, or you may download and type into the templates, and print them when you return to school.
- Finish reading and annotating through chapter four of The Great Gatsby. Annotation checks will take place upon your return to school. Feel free to listen to the audio posted below.
- Preview the Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman Blind Date Project. You will be crafting a blind date script, using lines from the poems of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. You will also be annotating the poems that you choose to include in your script. Click HERE for a collection of poems that you may download and annotate by hand or digitally. This project is due by Monday, 3/23 at 11:59 PM. I will be posting submission instructions shortly and will send a Remind text when they are available.
- After reading chapter four of The Great Gatsby, complete the "Unheard Voices P.O.V. Narrative" creative writing assignment, found on USA TestPrep. Type directly into the dialogue box, and press submit when you have completed the assignment. This assignment is due by 11:59 PM on Friday, 3/20. Make sure to include character dialogue, using correct dialogue formatting. Use the dialogue formatting in The Great Gatsby as a template. See the narrative requirements, based on the EOC rubric, below.
- Read the excerpts from Emerson's "Self-Reliance" and Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," and complete the corresponding constructed response (CEI) questions (there are two) on USA TestPrep. Type directly into the dialogue boxes, and press submit when you have completed the assignment. This assignment is due by 11:59 PM on Friday, 3/20.
- Complete pages 43-52 of you unit 19 grammar packet. One page will be randomly chosen for grading, upon your return to school.
Other Deadlines: USA TestPrep March Practice Test due Tuesday, 3/31 by 11:59 PM
Note: Your unit 6 vocabulary assignment will not be due until Wednesday, 3/25 at 11:59 PM, but it is now available for you to access online.
NEW FICTION FRIDAY: Students will be filming their New Fiction Friday Presentations and uploading documents digitally. Please upload your files by 11:59 PM on the Friday of your presentation date. Presentations will be posted to the blog by the following Monday so that other student can view and take notes. Click HERE to upload your video to the folder. Click HERE to upload your report to the folder. Click HERE to upload your comic to the folder. You may download your comic as a PDF or take screenshots and then upload them to the folder.