This week for STUDENTS: Monday, March 30

Thank you to all the students who have been participating in the work online! If you are just joining us, I'm happy you're here. If you need any help with getting access to technology, please send me an email.

Tasks this week:
1. Read this document
2. Post a video on Flipgrid (remember, you can even download this as an app and film it from your phone if that's easier)
3. Read through chapter 16 of Their Eyes Were Watching God
4. Come back Thursday to look for this week's instructional video(s)

Stay safe and healthy! 💗

TEWWG Ch 7-9 Watch and Learn

I hope you're ready to discuss chapters 7-9! By now you should have read these chapters.

Please watch these two videos. You will need to enter a password to watch them! The password is liberty (all lowercase). Please email me if you have any issues accessing these links. I'm working with new-to-me technology here.

Video 1

Video 2

After watching both of those amazing videos, please complete this form by Sunday night. Then check back here Monday afternoon (assuming technology cooperates with me) for the next step.

Student Tasks March 23, 2020

Hello students!

Here are two tasks to get you started this week:

1. Visit our class's Flipgrid site. You must sign in using Microsoft Office and your ISD credentials. Our grid can be found here. Watch my video, then post your own. Please note that you can download the Flipgrid app on your phone or tablet and use it that way. If you are shy about being on camera, feel free to use a filter, prop a book in front of the camera, show us your pet instead of you, etc.
2. Read chapters 7-13 of Their Eyes Were Watching God and post ONE journal entry (same format as we were doing before) to Teams. If you'd already completed more, please post them! Remember, to access Teams you need to login to office.com using your ISD credentials.

Stay safe and wash your hands! 💖

Weekly Update: March 23, 2020

Please click here to read this week's update.

Thank you!

Class Update

Hello!

We are getting ready to get back up and running the week of March 23. You will receive more communications in the coming days as I continue to plan, but we will be continuing our reading and discussion of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

These are strange times, so please feel free to reach out to me via email with any questions or concerns.

In the meantime, here are things students can be working on:

• Several students never submitted the realism summative assignment. Completing this assignment now will help improve your grade. If you are missing this assignment, it has been assigned to you in TEAMS. Please log into Office365 using your ISD credentials, find your American Lit class, and complete this assignment.
• If you did not submit your journal entries on our last day of school (either because they weren't done or because you were absent), please go to Teams and submit them there.
• Go back in the grade book and complete any other missing work. I've set up places in Teams to submit much of this work, but ask if you have a question. If you complete any No Red Ink or Actively Learn missing assignments, you will need to send me an email telling me your name, your class period, and exactly which assignments you want me to check. None of these programs alert me when you submit work.

If you are in need of a laptop, a wifi hotspot, or meals, please visit this link.

Stay safe, stay home, and wash your hands. 💗

Ch 5-6 (3/12/20)

If you were absent yesterday, here is the assignment you need to make up. Due to our extended absence from school, you will need to submit this work digitally to turnitin.com. Please email Mrs. Dragavon if you need the class code or other information.

I also collected journal entries and will be grading these while school is out. If you were absent and/or did not turn in your journals, please drop them off to the main office by 2:30 on Monday, 3/16. Make sure that when you drop off the work it has your full name and class period on it plus my name. You will have to buzz in at the front door and tell them that you are dropping off work for your English teacher. I also set up a place in TEAMS where you can submit this work digitally. (Login to your Office 365 account, click on the blue T for Teams, go to American Lit, find the assignment, read the directions, and upload your work.)

Please keep your mind active by continuing to read Their Eyes Were Watching God! Stay safe and healthy.

TEWWG Ch 3-4 (Tuesday, March 10)

1. Reading quiz (if you were absent you will need to arrange to make this up)
2. Read and annotate the pear tree excerpt on the handout
3. Review Maslow's Hierarchy of need by reviewing the handout and watching this video
4. If you were absent, you will also need to complete the work here in this document.

Due Thursday:

Read ch 5-6 and complete a journal entry.

Here is a reminder for how to write your journal entries.

I will be collecting all journal entries so I can grade them! Be prepared to turn in journal entries for chapters 1, 2, 3-4, and 5-6.

Have you joined our class's Remind group yet? Please do so by clicking here.