On Thursday, April 23, at 9:45-12:30 (or 10:00 - 11:00 depending on who you ask) our school's poetry team will be competing online in the annual Get Lit Classic Slam! You can watch it online here:
Get Lit Classic Slam Online I believe AHS will be in Theatre 1. I have decided to keep this page for only announcements that have to do with class. I am still going to post (hopefully) interesting and helpful information, but these posts have moved to the "Blog" section here:
Blog Or you can click on "BLOG" from the menu at the top of this page. Generally, there is one post a day Monday-Friday at 7:45 a.m. It is now official that we will not be returning to campus for the rest of this school year. That means we will continue Distance Learning all the way through finals week. You will take your final online as well.
I have heard from some students (mostly seniors) that they have too much work in all of their classes, so I have decided on the following: If you are assigned a story for the week and you COMPLETE the story and it is uploaded to the website, then you will not have to do the assignments for that week (CNN 10, Article of the Week, and Packet). If the story is not acceptable or you do not finish by the deadline, the assignments will still be due. Most of you will not be assigned a story every week, so you will continue to complete the weekly assignments. Attendance is taken every Friday and is based on whether or not you did any of the assignments for the week by Friday at 3:00 p.m. Any student who did not complete any assignments will be marked "N" Ed. Board meetings will be scheduled on Zoom when needed. Here is a calendar/schedule of what we are basically going to do for the rest of the year. Not every assignment is listed here. This is subject to change. Week 3: April 13-17 Weekly assignments OR Article (if you are assigned one) Week 4: April 20-24 Weekly assignments OR Article (if you are assigned one) Week 5: April 27-May 1 Weekly assignments OR Article (if you are assigned one) Week 6: May 4-8 Weekly assignments OR Article (if you are assigned one) Week 7: May 11-15 Weekly assignments OR Article (if you are assigned one) Week 8: May 18-22 (the week before finals, AKA "Closed Week") Weekly assignments OR Article (if you are assigned one) Week 9: May 25-28 (Finals week) Final A YouTube channel that I follow is Rescue and Restore. They take rusty old metal toys, take them apart, paint them and put them back together. It may not sound interesting, but it is actually pretty chill to watch. Give it a try if you are bored or need a break. Here's one of their videos: Schoolwork is important, but it is also important for you time take some time to take care of yourself. This is a video that guides you through something simple: breathing. Did you know that anyone in your family age 18 or under can get breakfast and lunch from the district for free?
Grab and Go lunches are available on Mondays (you can get two breakfasts and two lunches per person) and Wednesdays (you get three of each) at these locations: Granada Elementary Marguerita Elementary Ynez Elementary The District Office (1515 West Mission) This is a great way to get food so you and your family do not have to take a lot of trips to the grocery store! Here are the flyers with more information (available in three languages). I've been checking essays lately and I saw a sentence that read, "...his experiences as a fifteen year old boy..." This comes up a lot in English and in journalism: is it fifteen-year-old or fifteen year old or 15 year old or 15 year-old or 15-year-old? What about fifteen years old?
I know the answer, but I thought I would look it up just in case I've gotten rusty! Here is a helpful website I found: The "Year Old" Hyphen As for fifteen vs. 15 - fifteen is correct for English class. We use MLA format. Newspaper uses AP style, which, for numbers, follows the same APA rules below: "MLA Style spells out numbers that can be written in one or two words (three, fifteen, seventy-six, one thousand, twelve billion) and to use numerals for other numbers (2¾; 584; 1,001; 25,000,000). APA Style, on the other hand, generally uses words for numbers below 10 and numerals for numbers 10 and above." So, in English class (MLA format) the correct way is fifteen-year-old. In newspaper (AP style) it is 15-year-old. Now we know! Today (Monday, April 6, 2020) is a professional development day. That is a day that students have off but teachers work. As such, I will not be assigning any work until tomorrow.
Yes, this means you only need to watch four days of CNN 10 - but you can still watch today's if you want. If you want to get a head start, you can read the article of the week. This week's article is titled “The Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine” but, if you want, instead you can read last week's article, “How Long Will Schools Need to Stay Closed? A Pandemic Expert Weighs In” You can choose the one you want. This article has a list of 21 games you can play online. I for sure remember playing the Gold Miner one:
If You Are Bored at Home Right Now, These 21 Games From Your Childhood Are Still Online Games are a fun way to pass the time, but don't forget to do your classwork. All of the Week One Assignments for English are due today (Friday) by 3:00. CNN 1o has been telling us about virtual vacations. Here is an article that has 12 vacations you can take from home:
https://www.popsugar.com/smart-living/virtual-vacations-to-take-online-47327155 |
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