September 1 - September 5
This week we are creating an acrostic poem in Google Slides and presenting it using the screen record feature in Flipgrid. We started the poems today, and we will continue working on writing the poems and screen recording/presenting tomorrow. Poems/Flipgrid presentations are due on Friday. The assignment may have shown up as past due. The date that I created the assignment was showing up as the due date. Please disregard that. The poems are not overdue.
We did have some technical difficulties today during the period 6/7 block. Google Meet was muting me every time I spoke. I spoke with tech support, and I think I have the issue taken care of now. Please be patient as I get everything figured out. I will be understanding of technical difficulties on your end as well.
In addition to working on/presenting the acrostic poems, students will be benchmarking. Benchmarking is very important because it allows me to identify individual strengths and areas of need. Based on these results, I can tailor a plan to best meet each student's individual needs. Students may complain of boredom this week as they complete the testing; however, I promise to shake things up once we finish with this very important task.
Finally, I am aware that this new and unfamiliar technology can be very frustrating. I will do my best to assist you in figuring everything out. I went ahead and created two video tutorials for you. The hyperlinks are below. These videos will teach you how to do the daily attendance, participate live, access the bell schedule, and how access the curriculum for each day. I posted them in the parent homework section of Google Classroom as well.
Thank you!
Mrs. Fowler
