This is going to be long – but not a lot to DO, I just want
to give you as much information as I can.
Recap: March 23- April 9 – We were figuring all this out,
continuing to learn, and not taking regular grades.
Now: We will continue to figure all this out, continue to
learn, and start taking some grades. I have tried to distill the curriculum
down to its most essential elements.
Starting this week, we will have due dates for assignments, but if your
internet crashes, your Chromebook hates you, your Mom and Dad decide you need a
dance party before you do anymore school work – whatever – it’s okay if it
takes an extra day or three. I just want to try and keep you on track with the
dates so you don’t get a ton of stuff to do all at once.
Going Forward: I’ll keep putting in each week’s work in
ItsLearning Sunday night or Monday morning. You will not need to do anything
from the Digital Backpack, but of course you may if something intrigues you!
I’ve combined Africa and Asia to make us more efficient. We’ll still do a tiny
bit with Australia/Oceana/Antarctica and a modified passion project, but no
final exam!
Grades: There will be 11 grades in the gradebook by the end
of the year. The first grade was the Silk Road questions you did after reading
the BrainPop. This was before Spring
Break. If you did ANYTHING, and I mean ANYTHING at all during the last three
weeks, I made the second half of that grade the full 50 points. If not, I just doubled the percent you got
out of 50 for the first half.
The second grade is a bonus grade – if you read A Long
Walk to Water and thoughtfully and completely answered the questions for
the book, I put an extra 100 in the gradebook for you. If you didn’t, it will just be blank. It won’t hurt your average in any way.
Speaking of bonus, if you did the Jordan Royal Tour extra
credit, I will add those points to grade 3, The Water Reflection
questions. You will see how many bonus
points (up to 10) were added in the notes on Skyward. I put in Tuesday, April
14 as the due date for the Water Reflection Questions, but finish it as you can
this week.
Grade four will be 10 multiple choice questions on
“Movement” – migration, immigration, Silk Road, push-pull factors. That is our
focus for this week.
If you have any questions about any of this – or the grades
in the grade book, please reach out.
Zooms at 1:00 and 2:00 on Friday.
If you have any questions, want to talk about anything, or just say hi,
please zoom in!
(Zoom links/details in the email and in ItsLearning)
