Here we go!! It’s time to get this online party started!
So the best laid plans of mice and men…are sure to go awry. Unfortunately, this lovely Corona Virus has thrown us all a nice curveball, and basically everything from the last blog post is out the window. Frisco ISD has declared this week a “week of review,” so we can’t take any grades on new content, and getting together to record a radio show MIGHT break a few quarantine rules — so the comic book/radio show is a no-go. 🙁 Our hearts are broken — we were excited to hear and see your amazing creations. Membean still works because it’s an ongoing grade – but we’re adjusting the due date and minute expectation to fit this week. Speaking of this week:
Officially: THIS page has a list of your assignments. You are EXPECTED to do each assignment on the day it’s assigned (hence the “suggested due dates.) I’ll also try to update things daily on here with a bit more detail, but you are responsible for everything on that lesson plan. Here’s where it gets tricky, though….these assignments are all technically “DUE” t 11:59pm on Friday night. You won’t get grades for them, but they will be used to count you absent or present for each day. (Yes, procrastinators, that means you could technically sleep and game all week and then do all your assignments on Friday night…but that would suck. Seriously. And imagine if you don’t get them done…can you even imagine losing credit for two classes due to “absences” when you didn’t even have to leave your house?? Come on…. So…my advice? Knock things out as early as you can, get them finished and submitted (where needed), and be done with it. Then you’ll have plenty of time to stare at your walls and make Tik Toks.)
Big picture, because we are doing “asynchronous” learning, even though I’m going to give you an assignment every day (and if you’re smart you’ll DO the assignment each day) you don’t HAVE to turn it in until 11:59 on Friday. Specific to AMSTUD, though — the later you turn things in the less chance you have of doing any corrections. That’s not as big a deal this week, but will come into play moving forward (if we keep doing this whole onlin thing…) Completing these assignments will be proof you were “present” each day. Each assignment should take about 20-25 minutes – so for AMSTUD we have up to 50 minutes of your time (25 for APLANG and 25 for APUSH) but we’ll try to keep it under that.
For today, here’s your assignment:
- Complete your own blog post for today. Make sure you’ve read the instructions HERE. You can take as much or as little time as you’d like on this, but make sure you have at least one solid, AP level paragraph per day.
- Go to myap.collegeboard.org and work on your Unit 5 Personal Progress Check. Most of you are already either done and can just review this – or close to being done. A few haven’t started. It must be finished by 11:59 on Friday night in order for you to get attendance credit.
- You need 30 minutes of Membean by Friday at 11:59 – the first time you log onto Membean on Friday it will give you your 9 weeks Membean quiz. This quiz can be reset ONE time if you email to request the reset during office hours on Friday (9-11am or 1-3pm). That means if you take the quiz after 3 on Friday the grade stands.
- Your DBQ rewrite is due by 11:59pm on Friday. Today’s assignment isn’t very long (because you should be mostly done with PPC 5), so use this time to do the rewrite if you want to improve your score. Email the corrected DBQ to Taylor before 11:59 on Friday night.
Coach is working on finishing grading your Argument essays now, and will scan them and send them to you ASAP so that you have a chance to do corrections on those as well. We’ll keep you posted.
For now, we will both be hanging out by our email from 9-11am and from 1-3pm ready for any thoughts, comments, funny stories, oh..or questions about all this stuff! Feel free to reach out and break up our monotony! Have a great first day of eSchool!
Ciao…
Taylor