Hello World History students,
As we enter the month of May and the third week of At-Home Learning, I hope this finds you & yours doing well and keeping healthy as we make our way through this challenging time! Keep up the great work and thank you for staying patient and flexible! Here is this week’s schedule and a couple of reminders.
The schedule for this week (5/4 – 5/8):
TUE. (5/5) – go to the “May 4 - 8” Channel in Teams. Watch both today’s PPT video file AND the video clip on communism. Then, reply to the discussion question posted along with the communism video (located in this week’s channel). Lastly, complete the first HALF of the activity “Effects of the Industrial Revolution.” The Assignment post will have a link to a Word document, where you’ll do your work. When you use Word within Teams or Word Online, your work automatically saves in your One Drive (cloud storage). **NOTE: Today, you will only do half the assignment (5 effects of 10)---you can use “class time” later this week to finish & submit this assignment on Friday, 5/8.
WED. (5/6) – 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).
FRI. (5/8) – go to the “May 4 - 8” Channel in Teams. Watch both today’s PPT video file AND the TedEd video “Urbanization and the Future of Cities.” Then, reply to the discussion question posted along with the TedEd video (located in this week’s channel). Lastly, finish the second HALF of the activity “Effects of the Industrial Revolution,” and submit it in Teams. This assignment will be due today, FRI., 5/8.
Other important reminders:
- To use Microsoft Teams, go to Office.com and sign in with:
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 access Office/Teams, PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP!
- 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. While Remote Learning is the first priority going forward, late work can raise your baseline “MT3” grade from before the closure. Please refer to Principal Martin’s email about Semester 2 grading from last week and feel free to reach out if you still have questions.
Thank you so much for your hard work, folks! Please contact me via email or, for questions about Teams, leave a message either in the “General” channel or on a specific post in Teams. Happy learning and talk to you soon,
- Mr. Matzen