Greetings World History students,
I hope you are staying healthy and settling into something of a routine after the first week of At-Home Learning! It has been great to hear from you and thank you for your patience, hard work, and the initiative you are showing with your at-home education. Below you will find the week’s schedule and some important reminders.
Here the schedule for this week (4/27 – 5/1):
TUE. (4/28) – go to the “April 27 – May 1” Channel in Teams. Watch today’s PPT video file and then complete the activity “Urban Conditions.” One of the links in the Assignment post is to a Word document, in which you will find the assignment. When you use Word within Teams or Word Online, your work should automatically save in your One Drive (cloud storage). You can select it from there when you submit it in Teams. This assignment is due by Fri. 5/1 (B).
WED. (4/29) – I will have Office Hours from 10:00 – 11:00 AM on Wednesdays where I will be available for quick email responses to questions and for video calls (the “Meet” feature within Microsoft Teams). Please let me know in advance if you would like to schedule a video call. I will also do my best to have Office Hours on my prep periods (2nd and 5th periods on the At-Home Learning schedule sent out prior to spring break----subject to change in the future). If you want something extra to do this week, check out Teams on Wednesday for an optional activity on economic systems (capitalism vs. socialism).
FRI. (5/1) – go to the “April 27 – May 1” Channel in Teams. Watch the PPT video file for today and then complete the activity “Communism (Common Lit).” For this, you will read an article about Karl Marx and the origins of communism in response to the Industrial Revolution. Then, you will complete comprehension questions in Word document (linked in the Assignment post), which you will submit in Teams. This assignment will be due by Tue., 5/5.
Other important reminders:
- To use Microsoft Teams, go to Office.com and sign in with the following:
Username: school ‘email’ (username@issaquah.wednet.edu). Username should be first 4 letters of last name, first 3 letters of first name, and grad year [ex: MatzChr23]
Password: school computer password
- If you CAN'T get into Office/Teams, PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP! Our class website will continue to be updated, but Teams is what you need to use going forward.
- MISSING WORK: if you have any missing work from before the closure, please make sure that you complete it and turn it in via email (late policy still applies). You can find files for pre-closure work on our website (https://matzencisd.wixsite.com/worldhistory) on the “Files” page for your course.
Thank you so much for your flexibility and hard work as we navigate all of this! Please continue to reach out via email or, particularly for questions about Teams, leave a message either in the “General” channel or on a specific post in Teams. Cheers and talk to you soon,
- Mr. Matzen