WH 3 (soph.) - Week of 5/11 - 5/15

Hi World History students,

I hope you were able to enjoy the nice weather this Mother’ Day weekend and, as always, that this finds you & yours doing well and healthy.  Here is this week’s schedule and a few reminders.

The schedule for this week (5/11 – 5/15):

MON. / TUE. (5/11, 5/12) – go to the “May 11 - 15” Channel in Teams.  Watch today’s PPT video file and then finish the assignment “Cold War Proxy Wars.”  Today is a work day to complete this activity, which we started in the later part of last week.  Finish your reading notes on the remaining two proxy wars (Afghanistan and Cuba) in your Word doc chart (linked in the Assignment post) and submit it in Teams.  This assignment is due today, 5/11 (A), Fri. 5/12 (B).

WED. (5/13) – 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 be available for 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).

THU. / FRI. (5/14, 5/15) – go to the “May 11 – May 15” Channel in Teams.  Today, we will do a “live” class to check in and briefly review historical writing.  A Meeting will be scheduled in Teams for the beginning of the class period (please see the LHS At-Home Learning schedule).  Remember you can watch it later if you can’t attend, as it will be recorded.  Then, you will work on the assignment “ACES writing --- end of communism,” where you will analyze primary and secondary sources, and craft a response to a question using ACES.  This will be due on Mon., 5/18 (A), Tue. 5/19 (B).

And other 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 grade (i.e., your grade from before the closure).  **Please refer to Principal Martin’s email about Semester 2 grading from last week.

As always, please reach out via email or, for things about Teams, leave a message in the “General” channel or on a specific post in Teams if you have any questions. Thank you for your continued hard work, flexibility, and perseverance during this challenging time!  Cheers,

- Mr. Matzen