WH 3 (soph.) - Week of 4/27 - 5/1

Greetings World History students,

I hope you are staying healthy and settling into something like a routine after the first week of Remote 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 learning.  Below you will find the weekly schedule and some important reminders.

Here is the schedule for this week (4/27 – 5/1):

MON. / TUE. (4/27, 4/28) – go to the “April 27 – May 1” Channel in Teams.  Watch both today’s PPT video file AND the Berlin airlift clip, and then complete the activity “Iron Curtain and Berlin.”  The Assignment post will have a link to a Word document, in which you’ll 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 Thurs., 4/30 (A), 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 immediate email responses to questions and for video calls (the “Meet” feature within Microsoft Teams).  Please let me know 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 the post-WWII world.

THU. / FRI. (4/30, 5/1) – go to the “April 27 – May 1” Channel in Teams.  Watch the PPT video file for today and then complete the activity “ACES – Effect of Division of Berlin & Germany.”  You will analyze primary sources and, using the sources and your background knowledge, write a thorough response in paragraph form with complete sentences.  Be sure to cite multiple pieces of evidence in your writing.  The Assignment post will have a link to a Word doc, which you will submit in Teams.  This assignment will be due by Mon., 5/4 (A), Tue. 5/5 (B).

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