WH 3 (soph.) - Week of 5/4 - 5/8

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):

MON. / TUE. (5/4, 5/5) – go to the “May 4 - 8” Channel in Teams.  Watch both today’s PPT video file AND the TedEd  video “Who won the space race?”  Then, reply to the discussion question posted along with the TedEd video (located in this week’s channel).  Lastly, complete the activity “Arms and Space Race.”  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).  You can select it from there when you submit it in Teams.  This assignment is due on Thurs., 5/7 (A), Fri. 5/8 (B).

WED. (5/6) – 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).

THU. / FRI. (5/7, 5/8) – go to the “May 4 – May 8” Channel in Teams.  Watch both today’s PPT video file AND the TedEd video clip “A history of the Cuban Missile Crisis.”  Then, reply to the discussion topic posted along with the TedEd video (located in this week’s channel).  Finally, do the first part of the activity “Cold War Proxy Wars” in Teams.  You’ll read and complete the chart in the Word doc for ONLY the first 2 wars (Korea and Vietnam)---we will use “class time” next week to do the last 2 wars (Afghanistan and Cuba), and submit the whole thing next week on Mon., 5/11 (A), Tue. 5/12 (B).

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