Happy vacation, everyone!
I know that you must be thrilled to be on break, and I hope that you enjoy it. :) I've gotten a few e-mails about your work, and I had already planned to post a note about it. So, the deal is that yes, you do have reading and vocab due this week (so please post on Friday, or Thursday night if you don't want to do it exactly Friday), but no, you do not have to blog. The reason that School Loop lists blog posts for this week is that the assignments are posted to repeat every Tuesday and Thursday. So you can just ignore those, but do post your 80-100 pages of reading and your vocab words. A clarifying comment about the Friday posts. Please make sure that you keep track of the pages where you find your vocabulary words, and remember that part of that post is to tell me what pages you read in the past week. Lastly, remember that your Tuesday and Thursday blogs are due by 2:15 pm on those days, and while I will not always be reading them on those afternoons, in the event that I do and yours are not posted, they will be marked late. I know that happened with a few people this week.
As of now, your grades are updated. If you have late work, it must be made up during vacation. In the event that you post this week, please send me an e-mail to alert me to check your blog. And remember, you chose these topics so that they would be inspiring to read and write about. I really hope that they are and that you are enjoying yourself, but we also need to be realistic about this being a graduation requirement and that being another motivating factor in getting your work done.
I hope we're all on the same page about the course, but please e-mail me with any questions.
Enjoy vacation, and happy reading! :)
CJF
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Monday, February 8, 2016
Snow Days
Hi All,
I hope that you have enjoyed your four-day weekend! What a way to begin February. However, I hope, for your sake, that you don't have a February like last year (with so much snow and a building that cannot handle it). Although I know that seniors don't have to make up snow days in the traditional way, that got to be a bit stressful last year, trying to cram everything in! I hope that you've gotten plenty of extra reading done while you really shouldn't have been out driving anywhere. I'm looking forward to hearing about your progress. I really should have published this entry before it was an issue, but let's just say that I sort of thought an online class implied it. That is to say that your work is due on the days that it's due regardless of if you are in school or not. That goes for snow days that the entire district observes or individual days out of the building. The benefit of an online class is that you do not have to be anywhere specific to do it. Therefore, not being at school does not excuse late (or simply absent) work. I have already graded all of the work that was posted last week, and there were a few of the Friday blogs missing, which is too bad because of the three you write each week, that's certainly the least time-consuming one. So, let's use this as a warning. I'll take ten points off Friday's blog if you post it by 2:15 pm tomorrow, but in the future you won't be able to post that late for any more than half credit. Remember, also, that you have a quotation post due tomorrow afternoon as well.
Because I'm not seeing you in person, I plan to update the grades as I read your blogs each week. That means that you can see your grade, accurately, twice a week. Please pay attention on School Loop since this class is a graduation requirement. E-mail me any time with any questions, and I can also arrange to meet with you in person on occasion if that would help. Additionally, you have two great resources in person in Ms. Costello and Mr. Ruland who can answer questions and give advice. Let's be proactive here so no one is in a tricky situation going into the last month of school!
I am really enjoying your blogs so far. They are all very different from one another, and I plan to highlight some example posts soon. In the meantime, feel free to click on each other's names and see what your classmates are up to, how they are formatting entries, etc. While this is an individual class, you aren't totally on your own in completing it, and I really want you to feel comfortable, learn a lot, and have a good time. We'll talk again soon. :)
CJF
I hope that you have enjoyed your four-day weekend! What a way to begin February. However, I hope, for your sake, that you don't have a February like last year (with so much snow and a building that cannot handle it). Although I know that seniors don't have to make up snow days in the traditional way, that got to be a bit stressful last year, trying to cram everything in! I hope that you've gotten plenty of extra reading done while you really shouldn't have been out driving anywhere. I'm looking forward to hearing about your progress. I really should have published this entry before it was an issue, but let's just say that I sort of thought an online class implied it. That is to say that your work is due on the days that it's due regardless of if you are in school or not. That goes for snow days that the entire district observes or individual days out of the building. The benefit of an online class is that you do not have to be anywhere specific to do it. Therefore, not being at school does not excuse late (or simply absent) work. I have already graded all of the work that was posted last week, and there were a few of the Friday blogs missing, which is too bad because of the three you write each week, that's certainly the least time-consuming one. So, let's use this as a warning. I'll take ten points off Friday's blog if you post it by 2:15 pm tomorrow, but in the future you won't be able to post that late for any more than half credit. Remember, also, that you have a quotation post due tomorrow afternoon as well.
Because I'm not seeing you in person, I plan to update the grades as I read your blogs each week. That means that you can see your grade, accurately, twice a week. Please pay attention on School Loop since this class is a graduation requirement. E-mail me any time with any questions, and I can also arrange to meet with you in person on occasion if that would help. Additionally, you have two great resources in person in Ms. Costello and Mr. Ruland who can answer questions and give advice. Let's be proactive here so no one is in a tricky situation going into the last month of school!
I am really enjoying your blogs so far. They are all very different from one another, and I plan to highlight some example posts soon. In the meantime, feel free to click on each other's names and see what your classmates are up to, how they are formatting entries, etc. While this is an individual class, you aren't totally on your own in completing it, and I really want you to feel comfortable, learn a lot, and have a good time. We'll talk again soon. :)
CJF
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