Although this is a fluid situation, the following is what is scheduled for 7th grade

Monday, August 31: I will be contacting myAdvisory classes by phone. Please answer the call!

Tuesday, Sept. 1: All students will follow a 1/2 day schedule. Each class meets for 22 minutes on ZOOM. Here’s the schedule you will follow:

Wednesday, Sept. 2: No zoom meetings for 7th graders. All of the 7th grade teachers will be at Bryant handing out materials. I will be there from 8:30-11:30. Please come to the designated area to pick up materials and say “Hi!” to your teachers.

Thursday, Sept. 3: 1/2 day schedule with zoom meetings using the same schedule as Tuesday.

Friday- no school. Have a nice weekend.

Please email me if you ever have any questions. This is a trying time for all of us; we’re all in this together.

Kathy Duquette

Hello Students and Parents,

All work has been corrected and entered into the gradebook at this time. All missing work can be completed and turned in before noon tomorrow. Students must email me to let me know work has been turned in late. I will then correct the work and enter it in the gradebook.

The PTA is doing a fundraiser. They are selling BRYANT masks to be worn during this pandemic. The website to purchase these are: https://bryantmiddleschoolmasks.itemorder.com/

Dearborn Public Schools needs input on the way school should open next school year. Please use the following link to give feedback: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelcXLATfAiOV63sOZ6zn8dHqcShK0w2vlvKIM9U9nuK3pd3w/viewform

Report Grades will be submitted by Thursday. After that, the office will be sending the report cards to you.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email me.

Students, you need to continue to learn over the summer break. You should read, watch educational videos, learn something new and review what you learned this year. We do not want you to fall behind.

Please be safe and have an enjoyable summer.

Hello Students,

I hope all is well with you and your families.  Hopefully you are able to enjoy this nice weather we are having.  

I am glad to see so many of you are continuing the learning process by completing your assignments.  This week’s assignment is a Newsela Article- The Pacific Ring of Fire Home to 452 Volcanoes .  This assignment will be due on Saturday, June 6th before noon.  Any late work will need to be completed before next Tuesday by noon, so that I will have time to complete report card grades.

Please continue emailing me questions and/or concerns.

Ms. Duquette

Hello Students,

I hope everyone had a nice weekend.  For those who celebrated the end of Ramadan I hope you were able to spend quality time with your family.  

This week’s homework is a lesson on Google Classroom.  The lesson is called MONITORING VOLCANIC ACTIVITY RL #3. This lesson is about how scientists use data to predict when volcanoes will erupt.  There are some readings along with questions you must complete.  All the information is on a Google Document.  This will be due on Saturday at noon.  

There are a few students who need to review the gradebook to determine which assignments are incomplete or missing.  Once you have completed the work, you need to email me and tell me which assignment you completed so I can correct the work.  

Please continue to email me with questions or concerns.  

Ms. Duquette

Hello Students,

This week’s lesson is a Newsela article.  It aligns with the Remote Learning Lesson # 2 which you completed last week. The Newsela article is Using a Rubik’s Cube, researchers train robots to learn the way humans do.  As always with the Newsela articles you are to read the article, complete 10 thoughtful annotations, take the quiz and write a paragraph explaining the main idea of the reading.  

I have graded the science fair assignment.  There were several interesting ideas.  I am disappointed the entire science experiment was not able to be completed. 

If you complete late work, you need to email me and let me know the name of the late assignment you completed.  Once I receive the email, I will go to the site to correct the work. Please check your gradebook often and kindly let me know if there is something I missed. 

I would like to have some face to face time on the Big Blue Button(BBB).  The Big Blue Button is an option on iLearn.  Last week my advisory connected via BBB.  This week I’d like to try BBB with all my classes according to the schedule below:

TUESDAY MAY 19

THURSDAY MAY 21

Please continue emailing me questions and/ concerns.

Ms. Duquette

Advisory Students- Check your email for the directions to get on to the meet for today at 3:00. Email me if you need help.

Hello Students and Families,

I hope everyone is healthy and continuing to be safe. I understand learning is so different at this time and I am amazed at how many students are continuting to complete the work with a high amount of effort.

Most of the work is completed on time, however, if you have not completed past assignments, email me once the assignment is completed. Once I receive the email, I will go into either Newsela, IXL or Google Classroom to correct the work

The assignment for this week is Remote Learning Lesson #2. This is about algorithms. An algorithm is a series of steps used in order to solve a problem. This a science process, but a process we all use in our daily lives. The example discussed in this assignment is something we all can understand. As scientists, we want to complete tasks in the most beneficial and efficient way possible.

The assignment is in Google Classroom. You will need to view the Google Slides first, then type the answers in the Google Document. It is recommended that you have both open and go back and forth between both pieces of information to complete the assignment. Once again, the Google Classroom codes are below:

As always, please email me if you have any questions.

Hello Students,

I hope everyone is healthy and enjoying extra time with families.  I am glad the weather is starting to be more enjoyable.  I have seen many of you outdoors enjoying the weather. 

Most students completed last week’s assignment, however, for those of you that did not, please complete last week’s assignment soon. Once the work is completed, please email me so I can go back to GoogleClassroom to correct the work.

This week we are going back to a Newsela article.  This will allow some of you to complete missing work as well.  Also, the science fair project is due on Friday.  Most of you have submitted it already.  Remember, that needs to be submitted to GoogleClassroom.  

The Newsela article is Stutting their STEM stuff . This article is about students taking their science fair projects to the White House.

Please continue to email me with questions and/concerns.  

Ms.  Duquette

Hello Students,

This week’s lesson will be looking a bit different.  In order to access the lesson you will need to go to Google Classroom.  I already gave you the code in a recent blog post.  Once you are in Google Classroom, you will need two items. One is a Google Slideshow, which has information you need to view.  Some of it is reading, other parts are short videos.  The other item is a Google Sheet.  It has the questions you will need to answer and then hand in through Google Classroom. It is probably best to have both those open so you can toggle back and forth to write the information in the document. In order to anwer the questions on the Google Document you MUST make a copy of it first.

I have made a short video, which will help you navigate this information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OEEXlVS5DCtNV5VT3Ma_vp0cU38K9bJm/view?usp=sharing

I hope you and your families are doing well.

Please email me with any questions.

Hello Students,

There has been a change for the next Google Meet. On Thursday, I am able to meet with my classes from 12-1. So, this will be the schedule:

• 12:00-12:20 5th hour students
• 12:20-12:40 6th hour students
• 12:40-1:00 Any students who did not join on Tuesday or Thursday this week.

Some items to remember:

• You should have your Microphone muted unless you are supposed to be talking.  
• Eating should wait until we complete our session
• You should enter the Google Meet from your Dearborn Schools Google Account
• All school rules apply while on Google Meet

Today I met with the first 3 science classes.  It was great to see so many students. I will cover the same information on Thursday as was discussed today.  

As always, please email me with any questions or concerns.