Sunday, May 3, 2020

*5/3 UPDATE FOR MON. 5/4*--PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: IMPORTANT INFO FOR COMPLETING YOUR UCHS FINAL ASSESSMENT PROJECTS STARTING MON. 5/4 and **DUE WED. 5/6**

1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1102

**ATTENTION ALL, AP LANG STUDENTS: CRUCIAL INFO HERE TO READ CAREFULLY FOR MON. 5/4 [through WED. 5/6]:

1) FIRST, A FEW IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS/LOOKING AHEAD w/REMINDERS BEFORE YOU START YOUR UCHS APLang FINAL ASSESSMENT PROJECT:
  • EVERYONE: I'M STILL WORKING ON GRADING YOUR APLANG/ENG1102 GROUP ANNBIBS/more info/grades forthcoming....
  • ALL ENG1102 KIDS: I'm grading your 1102 FINAL EXAMS through Sunday night, and sometime in the next 48hrs. I'll create a 'placeholder' column in the UC/APLang gradebook that will display your FINAL EXAM GRADE and in the 'NOTES' section your ENG 1102 FINAL COURSE OVERALL GRADE **PLEASE NOTE IT DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD YOUR AP GRADE.** Please be patient, and thank you ahead of time!
    • Alix/Savannah/Nathan; I'll be reaching out to you personally ASAP with your final grades and/or anything I may need from you, so be on the lookout to hear from me, and then you're done! :)
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ALSO, AP EXAM_TAKERS for MON. 5/4-FRI. 5/8: 
KEEP CHECKING THAT UC APEXAM GOOGLE CLASSROOM!!! 
**College Board will also offer an at-home scoring DEMO this week starting MON. 5/4 to walk you through what your testing online will look like. PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THIS, and I'll be participating in this as well as getting you all ready to complete this (if you don't on your own)

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***AP EXAM TAKERS: UPCOMING/LOOKING AHEAD...
  • WEEK OF MON. 5/11: REVIEW WEEK FOR APLang EXAM TAKERS***
    • we'll meet 2-3 times this week to go over at-home online testing procedures one last time, review, and complete one last 45min. rhetorical analysis practice essay [scored by me w/feedback] tied to what you already completed on the APLang FINAL EXAM PROJECT
    • **REMEMBER: in order to receive the APLang course grade incentive I promised if you take the exam, you MUST complete this REVIEW WEEK prior to the APLang EXAM ON WED. 5/20 @2pm (*more info to come in the following weeks)
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2) IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT!
ALLLLLLL AP LANGUAGE KIDS: 

PLEASE READ ALL THE NEXT PART OF THIS POST BEFORE YOU GO ON TO MY GOOGLE CLASSROOM BEGINNING MON. 5/4 TO COMPLETE YOUR APLANG FINAL ASSESSMENT PROJECT
  • MON. 5/4-WED. 5/6: ALL APLang STUDENTS, REGARDLESS of whether or not you're taking the exam, are REQUIRED to use these THREE DAYS to work on:
    • finish reading Americanah if you have not
    • getting your APLANG YEAR-LONG JOURNALS together; **SPECIFICALLY FROM S2, I need to PHYSICALLY SEE J#15 through #21, completed in class OR for HW HARD COPY prior to going online) for a VISUAL GRADE (*more info on this Tuesday--just an FYI for now to look for them)

  • AND FINALLY MON. 5/4-WED. 5/6....
    • YOU'LL BE COMPLETING VIA MY/MRS. KRIEGER'S GOOGLE CLASSROOM YOUR UCHS REQUIRED APLANG FINAL EXAM PROJECT ASSESSMENT 
      • PROJECT DUE DATE: WED. 5/6 by 3:30pm [*BUT you may finish any time between Mon. 5/4 and Wed. 5/6--THE SOONER THE BETTER! Because as I grade your project, I can let you know if there's anything for you to improve and/or return it to you for revision]
  • After reading this post FIRST (Sun. 5/3 or Mon. 5/4), go to my MRS. KRIEGER'S GOOGLE CLASSROOM; **THE PROJECT ASSIGNMENT WILL BE POSTED BY 9am MON. 5/4**
  • You'll also receive a UCSTUDENT EMAIL NOTIFICATION that you have a Classroom assignment; HOWEVER, below are screenshots of BOTH my CLASSROOM 'SHELL/HOME PAGE' as well as the FIRST SLIDE OF THE PROJECT for your class 
      • MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE/HAVE THE CORRECT ASSIGNMENT; if you DO NOT, GET IN TOUCH WITH ME IMMEDIATELY!!!
**MAKE SURE YOU'RE IN THE ^^CORRECT CLASSROOM TO FIND AND COMPLETE YOUR AP LANG FINAL ASSESSMENT PROJECT!
MAKE SURE YOU'RE COMPLETING THE ^^CORRECT FINAL ASSESSMENT PROJECT; FIRST SLIDE LOOKS LIKE THIS! **CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY IF YOU DO NOT SEE THIS ASSIGNMENT MONDAY WHEN YOU ARE IN MY CLASSROOM!

  • THE FORMAT FOR THIS FINAL ASSESSMENT IS GOOGLE SLIDES
    • PLEASE NOTE: you will be typing responses/answers in some text boxes on the slides
    • SO DO NOT FREAK OUT OR WORRY IF FORMATTING BECOMES "messed up"--make your font smaller if need be, and if you need to move a box with a question/my typing up or down some to make room for your response, SO BE IT; IT'S FINE!
  • IT IS CRUCIAL THAT YOU READ EACH SLIDE CAREFULLYfrom the title slide, the instructions slide, and the THREE (3) slides that require responses from you, EACH ONE IS IMPORTANT!

**IF I LINKED IT, TYPED IT, SUGGESTED IT IN THE SLIDES, THEN IT'S PRETTY GOLDEN** :)

  • FIND/GET OUT YOUR APLANG BINDER AS YOU COMPLETE THIS b/c what you're reading you've ALREADY DONE AN ASSIGNMENT ON FIRST SEMESTER!!!!, and the notes/JOURNAL you completed for this text I believe WILL. PROVE. ESPECIALLY HELPFUL!!! The slides give you more info into what you need to find in your binder... :)
  • It's also ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT that you watch and/or READ any of the linked INFO, VIDEOS, HELPFUL MATERIALS I've included in each slide
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BY 3:30pm WED. 5/6, PLEASE HAVE THIS GOOGLE SLIDES PROJECT COMPLETED AND "RETURNED/MARK AS DONE" BACK TO ME VIA MY GOOGLE CLASSROOM; before then is ABSOLUTELY OKAY AS WELL--more time for me to assess them!

  • TAKE THIS PROJECT SERIOUSLY. WHY? Because...
    • FIRST AND FOREMOST, IT COUNTS IN THE **30%/AP PRACTICE EXAMS CATEGORY** OF YOUR APLANG FINAL COURSE GRADE!! (*think of all the practice essays/extended paragraphs we wrote all year--it goes in THAT CATEGORY)
      • For those of you taking the exam, the TEXT/RDG. this project uses as its focus IS IMPORTANT (**HINT for exam practice next week! :)**
      • For those of you NOT taking the exam, this is YOUR LAST AP MAJOR GRADE, and you do not want to take the chance of having to REDO THIS ASSIGNMENT THANKS TO LACK OF EFFORT OR RUSHING THROUGH
      • **As soon as you submit/return your completed slides/project, I'll begin grading and letting you all know IF I need you to add to/revise anything to improve your PROJECT RESPONSES/GRADE
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  • FINALLY, THURS. 5/7 and FRI. 5/8 ARE TEACHER IN-SERVICE DAYS where I'll be SCORING/GRADING your APLang FINAL EXAM PROJECT
  • I'll be getting in touch with you all individually, but basically....
    • by 3:30 pm FRI. 5/8, you'll all know your "FINAL GRADE" in the class and can individually determine whether or not you want to **continue working to improve your APLANG grade (**see Mr. Hussion's end of year memo)
    • ***for the seven of you NOT taking the APLang exam: if you "Meet Proficiency" and are happy with your grade, you will be "done" with APLang on FRI. 5/8***

    AS ALWAYS, TEXT/MSG/EMAIL ME WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT ANY OF THIS SOONER RATHER THAN LATER; I'LL GET BACK TO YOU ASAP!
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    4th Pre-AP American Lit./Comp.

    **ATTENTION ALL, HONORS AMLIT STUDENTS: CRUCIAL INFO HERE TO READ CAREFULLY FOR MON. 5/4 [through WED. 5/6]:

    1) FIRST, A FEW IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS/LOOKING AHEAD w/REMINDERS BEFORE YOU START YOUR UCHS HONORS AMLIT FINAL ASSESSMENT PROJECT:
    • EVERYONE: I'M WORKING ON FINISHING UP GRADING YOUR THE ROAD J#13 FINAL WRITTEN RESPONSE PROMPT/QU from 4/27; thanks for your patience :)....
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    ALSO, those of you who missed the HANGOUT LAST FRI. 5/1 RE: "A Rose for Emily" and IMPORTANT INFO FOR YOUR AMLIT FINAL PROJECT ASSESSMENT STARTING MON. 5/4, DO. NOT. FORGET. to watch this recording I email you
    ^^AND PLEASE LET ME KNOW YOU'VE WACTHED THIS! OTHERWISE, NO PARTICIPATION PTS. FOR THE WEEK, AND YOU'LL BE LOST TOMORROW!!

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    2) NOW....
    IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT!
    ALLLLLLL 4th HONORS AMLIT KIDS: 

    PLEASE READ ALL THE NEXT PART OF THIS POST BEFORE YOU GO ON TO MY GOOGLE CLASSROOM BEGINNING MON. 5/4 TO COMPLETE YOUR APLANG FINAL ASSESSMENT PROJECT
    • THE FIRST THING I WOULD DO... RIGHT NOW/BEFORE GOING TO BED TONIGHT (**or NO LATER than the morning BEFORE YOU START THE PROJECT--TRUST ME!!!) IS WATCH THE FOLLOWING LINKED 12min. VIDEO 
      • it explains an overview of "A Rose for Emily" as a 'refresher' and SOME SUPER-IMPORTANT stuff about symbols in the story for DEATH/DECAY/SOUTHERN GOTHIC LIT. ELEMENTS (**you will WANT TO PAY ATTENTION HERE--again, TRUST ME!!)
    • AND I HATE THAT I MUST SAY THIS, BUT... IF YOU PLAGIARIZE AND/OR JUST SAY 'word for word'/copy what this video presents, you will EARN A 0% ON THE PORTION OF THIS PROJECT THAT THE VIDEO APPLIES TO--DON'T TRY THAT JUNK! :)
    • the SUMMARY/FIRST HALF is CRUCIAL for those of you who ended this story with"huh?"
    • the ANALYSIS/SECOND HALF IS IMPORTANT FOR EVERYONE--PAY ATTENTION! It will work with your PROJECT IN A VERY IMPORTANT WAY--take notes if you need to!
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    • MON. 5/4-WED. 5/6: ALL HONORS AMLIT STUDENTS are REQUIRED to use these THREE DAYS to work on (*yes, you can finish earlier than Wednesday--details below):
      • COMPLETING VIA MY/MRS. KRIEGER'S GOOGLE CLASSROOM (*you all joined the last day(s) we met together in class) YOUR UCHS REQUIRED HONORS AMLIT FINAL EXAM PROJECT ASSESSMENT 
      • PROJECT DUE DATEWED. 5/6 by 3:30pm [*BUT you may finish any time between Mon. 5/4 and Wed. 5/6--THE SOONER THE BETTER! Because as I grade your project, I can let you know if there's anything for you to improve and/or return it to you for revision]
    • After reading this post FIRST (Sun. 5/3 or Mon. 5/4), go to my MRS. KRIEGER'S GOOGLE CLASSROOM**THE PROJECT ASSIGNMENT WILL BE POSTED BY 9am MON. 5/4**
    • You'll also receive a UCSTUDENT EMAIL NOTIFICATION that you have a Classroom assignment; HOWEVER, below are screenshots of BOTH my CLASSROOM 'SHELL/HOME PAGE' as well as the FIRST SLIDE OF THE PROJECT for your class 
      • MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE/HAVE THE CORRECT ASSIGNMENT; if you DO NOT, GET IN TOUCH WITH ME IMMEDIATELY!!!
    **MAKE SURE YOU'RE IN THE ^^CORRECT CLASSROOM TO FIND AND COMPLETE YOUR HONORS AMLIT FINAL ASSESSMENT PROJECT!

    MAKE SURE YOU'RE COMPLETING THE ^^CORRECT FINAL ASSESSMENT PROJECT; FIRST SLIDE LOOKS LIKE THIS! **CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY IF YOU DO NOT SEE THIS ASSIGNMENT MONDAY WHEN YOU ARE IN MY CLASSROOM!

    • THE FORMAT FOR THIS FINAL ASSESSMENT IS GOOGLE SLIDES
    • PLEASE NOTE: you will be typing responses/answers in some text boxes on the slides
    • SO DO NOT FREAK OUT OR WORRY IF FORMATTING BECOMES "messed up"--make your font smaller if need be, and if you need to move a box with a question/my typing up or down some to make room for your response, SO BE IT; IT'S FINE!
    • IT IS CRUCIAL THAT YOU READ EACH SLIDE CAREFULLYfrom the title slide, the instructions slide, and the THREE (3) slides that require responses from you, EACH ONE IS IMPORTANT!

    **IF I LINKED IT, TYPED IT, SUGGESTED IT IN THE SLIDES, THEN IT'S PRETTY GOLDEN** :)

    • FIND/GET OUT YOUR NOTES YOU TOOK THIS PAST FRI. 5/1 FOR THE HANGOUT RE: SOUTHERN GOTHIC LIT/"A Rose for Emily" as the notes and **ANYTHING YOU ADD TO THEM AS YOU GO THROUGH THE PROJECT AND WORK TOWARD YOUR RESPONSE WRITING I believe WILL. PROVE. ESPECIALLY HELPFUL!!! The slides give you more info into what you need to watch, read, and be ready to answer
    • It's also ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT that you watch and/or READ any of the linked INFO, VIDEOS, HELPFUL MATERIALS I've included in each slide
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    BY 3:30pm WED. 5/6, PLEASE HAVE THIS GOOGLE SLIDES PROJECT COMPLETED AND "RETURNED/MARK AS DONE" BACK TO ME VIA MY GOOGLE CLASSROOMbefore then is ABSOLUTELY OKAY AS WELL--more time for me to assess them!

    • TAKE THIS PROJECT SERIOUSLY. WHY? Because...
    • FIRST AND FOREMOST, IT'S WORTH 20% OF YOUR HONORS AMLIT FINAL COURSE GRADE--it takes the place of your END OF COURSE (EOC) exam [we actually would've been taking this upcoming week on campus]
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    • FINALLY, THURS. 5/7 and FRI. 5/8 ARE TEACHER IN-SERVICE DAYS where I'll be SCORING/GRADING your HONORS AMLIT FINAL EXAM PROJECT
    • I'll be getting in touch with you all individually, but basically....
      • by 3:30 pm FRI. 5/8, you'll all know your "FINAL GRADE" in the class and can individually determine whether or not you want to **continue working to improve your HONORS AMLIT grade (**see Mr. Hussion's end of year memo)
      • ***for those of you who still owe me assignments and/or DO NOT MEET PROFICIENCY ON THIS ASSIGNMENT, I will be talking with you individually via text, msg., email, etc.

      AS ALWAYS, TEXT/MSG/EMAIL ME WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT ANY OF THIS SOONER RATHER THAN LATER; I'LL GET BACK TO YOU ASAP!


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