Well, we are one week down for fasting, and two weeks into the district learning plan. I hope that you are working on some kind of a schedule so that it’s not too overwhelming. At this point, I think we are all missing the comforts of life (hair salons, nail salons, grocery shopping and actually finding the things we need, spending time with our friends and family for iftar), but hopefully, we are all safe and healthy and all of that will come in time.
QUESTION/FEEDBACK: please answer the following question. I need some feedback as far as sending you information/reminds. I don’t want to bombard you with emails and Reminds, but I want to make sure that you remember to do the work that is required so that I don’t have to document that you need someone to contact your home to remind you to do the work.
WEEKLY CHECK IN: On Wednesday, send me an email letting me know you’re checking in. Please compose the email correctly
- Subject line: Check in 5-6-2020
- Greeting: Dear Ms. Ferris,
- Paragraph/sentence letting me know you’re checking in and anything else you wanted to say.
- Closing (Sincerely,)
- Your Name (first and last)
JOURNAL ENTRIES
Some of you are doing a great job following the directions given for your journal entries each week. Some of you think that if you just put something on paper, that’s going to work (it’s not). Here is your assignment for the week is as follows (the assignments are due by midnight Sunday, May 10).
For this week:
- You are going to start a new Google doc for the journal entries beginning with today’s date (May 4). (All of the entries that we have done the past month will be stored on your Google drive, but you’re going to start fresh with this one).
- Click on the top left where it says Untitled Document. Click on that one time and change it to “Last Name First Name ID Journal Entries for the Week of May 4”. (This is the only acceptable title. Anything else will not be accepted).
- In the document itself, at the top left, where the cursor is (not in the header), you are going to type: 4-5-2020 or 4 May 2020.
- Press enter once.
- You will begin your journal entry. Begin paragraphs with a tab, and then a capital letter. Use complete sentences, and proper punctuation.
- CHECK YOUR SPELLING AND PROOFREAD YOUR WORK!! (Tools menu – Spelling & Grammar – Spelling and Grammar Check)
- Put your name and ID number in the footer on the left side (Insert menu- Headers & Footers – Footer).
- Highlight the date.
- Click on Format menu – Paragraph Styles – Heading 1 – Apply ‘Heading 1’
- Click at the end of your entry (after the last word/punctuation mark). Press enter once. Click on Insert menu – Break – Page Break.
- Your new page will be the entry for the next day (5-5-2020).
- Start with step 3 for each of the journal entries for the week. You just don’t need to do the footer after the first day because it will be included on each page for the week.
You will do this for each journal entry. By midnight Sunday, you will be submitting a 5 page document (each page is a journal entry for the week). You will be graded on all of these numbered items.
SUNDAY, MAY 10 is Mother’s Day. You don’t have to go out and get your mom/aunts/grandmothers/mother figure in your life anything, but just make sure she knows she is appreciated. Make her a card like you did in elementary school, help her with things around the house, make dinner for her this time around to give her a break. She’ll thank you if she feels like it truly comes from the heart!
