Happy Monday everyone! We begin our new online learning schedule today. I know you will likely have a lot of questions so I have created directions to help answer a few of those questions. Please add me on Remind @ConnorsFHS and be sure to check your email daily to receive the passwords for our once a week online meetings.
As you may have seen Dearborn Public Schools has submitted their plan for closing out our school year using extended remote learning and it has been approved by the Michigan Department of Education. If you are interested in reading our districts complete plan, a summary of how the plan impacts elementary, middle, and high school students, along with grading criteria for each grade level can be found at: https://dearbornschools.org/services/dearborn-public-schools-continuity-of-learning-plan
You can also check out this video posted by Dr. Maleyko on our Approval of the Continuity of Learning plan. https://youtu.be/BBF9D4DigPE Our school year will conclude as planned on Thursday, June 11th, 2020.
This is our Fordson High School Remote Learning Plan. Mrs. Alcodray asked us to share with you a video from her as well about the new plan for FHS. https://drive.google.com/file/d/19Kdr-hECZgQcXDqFbPfsBaKkCIkFDws6/view
Included in our post today will be two key pieces of information. First in section one (Part I) I will include my plan for our weekly schedule using remote learning. Please read this carefully because it contains information pertaining to our newly updated office hours and requirements for scheduled Google Meet/Hangout meetings. The second section (Part II) will contain our assignment including vocabulary words for Chapter 19, the articles we would like you to read this week, and the template for the reflection activity.
Feel free to email me with any questions that you have, and I will get back to you as soon as I can. I will be updating grades on MISTAR as soon as I can to reflect the work we did previously and I will update the new grades for participation and the weekly assignments as soon as possible.
Please send me an email or a message on Remind if you have any questions or concerns. I hope you have a terrific week!
Mrs. Connors’ U.S. History Remote Learning Weekly Schedule (Link to document)
Part I: Remote Learning Schedule & Instructions
Guidelines and Instructions for Weekly Assignments:
- Every Monday morning, I will post the following things on the iBlog:
- A set of vocabulary words that will help support your understanding of content related words associated with the chapter.
- Four content related articles designed to further your understanding of the topic/standards assigned to that week.
- Instructions for a reading reflection log.
- The vocabulary words are for you to review and use in your reading reflection (if they fit contextually) to strengthen your response.
- You will be responsible for reading all four of the articles at some point throughout the week. Each article will take you five to ten minutes to read and your reading reflection should take you roughly twenty minutes. Your reading reflection (only one per week is required) will be due by 11:59pm on the Sunday night of that week but can be sent in earlier if you finish during the week. Please share your reflection on Google Docs with connore@dearbornschools.org. I will continue to give you individual feedback and suggestions.
- Students will be required to attend a minimum of three Google Meet/Hangout online meetings throughout the last eight weeks of the school year. You can earn one additional session’s worth of points by attending a 4th session. Each hour will be assigned a specific day and time for attending our Google Meet/Hangout. If you are unable to attend at that day or time due to work or family obligations you must email me in advance so I can make accommodations or send you information on one of the other meetings that you can attend. I will email each class their Google Meet information by 10:00am on the day you are scheduled to meet.
You must check your school email and Remind for the links to the meetings.
- Each weekly reading reflection will be graded on a 10 point scale and each Google Meet/Hangout attended is worth 20 points.
- 7 remaining weekly reflections x 10 points each = 70 total points
- 3 Google Meet meetings x 20 points = 60 total points
- For each class, if a student participates in the learning, he/she will receive credit. The following will apply:
- Students who do the following will earn the grade of A recorded:
- Engage in at least 75% of the remote lessons and Meet/Hangouts.
- Minimum of five reflection submissions and three attended Google Meet/Hangouts.
- Submit and earn a passing grade on at least 75% of the assignments.
- Engage in at least 75% of the remote lessons and Meet/Hangouts.
- Students who do the following will earn the grade of G which awards credit:
- Engage in 60-74% of the remote lessons and Meet/Hangouts.
- Submission of four reflection logs and two attended Google Meet/Hangouts.
- Submit and earn a passing grade on at least 60-74% of the assignments.
- Engage in 60-74% of the remote lessons and Meet/Hangouts.
- Students who do the following will earn the grade of N or no credit given:
- Engage in less than 60% of the remote lessons and Meet/Hangouts.
- Submission of three or less reflection logs and attending one or no Google Meet/Hangouts.
- Submit and earn a passing grade on less than 60% of the assignments.
- Engage in less than 60% of the remote lessons and Meet/Hangouts.
- If a student chooses not to participate and cannot be reached despite numerous attempts, the student receives N for no credit.
- Any student who receives no credit will have to attend summer school for credit recovery. (Students must meet the Michigan Merit Curriculum requirements and earn 23 credits to graduate.)
- Any student who receives no credit will have to attend summer school for credit recovery. (Students must meet the Michigan Merit Curriculum requirements and earn 23 credits to graduate.)
- Students who do the following will earn the grade of A recorded:
- Weekly Topic Schedule:
- Week: 4/20 to 4/24 Topic: Chapter 19 Postwar Boom
- Week: 4/27 to 5/01 Topic: Chapter 20 New Frontier and the Great Society
- Week: 5/04 to 5/08 Topic: Chapter 21 Civil Rights
- Week: 5/11 to 5/15 Topic: Chapt 21 Civil Rights & Chapt 22 Vietnam Years (2 ea)
- Week: 5/18 to 5/22 Topic: Chapter 22 The Vietnam Years
- Week: 5/25 to 5/29 Topic: Chapter 23 Era of Social Change
- Week: 6/01 to 6/05 Topic: Vietnam (Two articles & instructions for the final)
- Week: 6/08 to 6/11 Topic: Support students and grade final essay/project
Part II: Chapter 19 Vocabulary, Readings, & Reflection Activity
Chapter 19: Postwar America Vocabulary
- Baby Boom: a time period marked by a greatly increased birthrate of American Children born during the late 1940s through the early 1960s
- Beat Movement: an expression of the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets and writers during the 1960s
- consumerism: the belief that success is achieved by purchasing large amounts of material goods
- Fair Deal: government programs introduced under President Truman that acted as an extension of FDR’s New Deal policies that included compulsory healthcare systems and crop-subsidy systems
- Federal Communication Commission (FCC): the government agency that regulates and licenses television, telephones, radios, telegraphs and any other mediums operating within the communications industry
- franchise: a company that offers a similar product or service in many locations
- mass media: a means of communication that reaches a widespread audience
- planned obsolescence: a policy where manufactures purposely produced products that easily wore out becoming quickly outdated and obsolete
- suburbs: mall residential communities located around surrounding cities
- urban renewal: this congressional act called for tearing down old rundown neighborhoods and constructing low-income housing in its place
Chapter 19 Readings & Weekly Reflection Activity
Directions: Read each of the four articles below about Postwar America and life in the 1950s. Choose one article and answer the questions on the Reflection Activity template. Please share your Google Doc with connore@dearbornschools.org by 11:59pm on Sunday, April 26th, 2020. You may share it earlier if you complete it sooner. We will discuss these articles during our online class meetings on Google Meet. Please try to read them before our meeting.
Weekly Reflection Activity Template (Save on your Google Drive!)
Article 1: Jackie Robinson Legacy in a Changing America by Lonnie G. Bunch III
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/jackie-robinsons-legacy-in-a-changing-america/2013/04/19/863693ac-a92f-11e2-b029-8fb7e977ef71_blog.html
Article 2: Mrs. America: Women’s Roles in the 1950s by PBS.org
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-mrs-america-womens-roles-1950s/
Article 3: The Rise of American Consumerism by PBS.org
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tupperware-consumer/
Article 4: G.I. Bill by History.com Editors
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/gi-bill