Author Archives: Matthew Trerice

Good Afternoon, I just posted an assignment for today and tomorrow (it is due MONDAY 4/27). The assignment is asking students to look back at the evidence the spent the last several days looking at to try to decide which sources are best to use for making a claim they might be considering. Next week … Continue reading »

Good Morning, I am posting the link to the 8th Grade Calendar for the week here below. A quick summary of what you will see for my class is the following: Tuesday- Office Hours from 2pm-3pm. For Office Hours this week I will be available on a Google Meet that I will send the code … Continue reading »

Good Morning, As mentioned earlier this week on the weekly calendar there will be a Google Meeting today at 2:00. The point of today’s Google Meeting is really just a check in with students and to answer any questions they might have. The instructions for joining are quite simple: Log into Google Meet using this … Continue reading »

Good Afternoon! Today’s assignment is asking you to start looking through the FIVE sources that are included in the assignment and work through the questions for each one. It is connected to the central question: How did abolitionists think and act as they tried to end slavery? Each day over the next five school days … Continue reading »

Good Morning! I hope your spring break went well and was relaxing! Welcome back to now our FOURTH week of digital learning (I can’t believe it has really been that long). Going forward there will be a few changes to how assignments will be posted and graded. Some of those changes are not even 100% … Continue reading »

Good Morning, I hope you are all doing well and that you are staying healthy and safe. The assignment posted to Google Classroom today is a reading about the life of Frederick Douglass. This is connected with the previous assignment as it introduced important reform movements of the 1800’s. Today’s reading should offer some unique … Continue reading »

Good Afternoon, I hope everyone is doing well and continues to use this time to enjoy your families but is also making time to continue learning! Many students have completed the online work I have posted and I have tried to give some simple feedback to each student on the first few assignments. Today’s assignment … Continue reading »

Good Morning! I hope you are all doing well and that you are settling into this new (temporary) normal that we find ourselves. I have posted another assignment to Google Classroom. This assignment is about the Mexican-American War, which we talked about in class the day before school was closed. I was planning to do … Continue reading »

Good Morning, I have posted the newest assignment to Google Classroom. This assignment is a map with a word bank and blanks to fill in based on the numbers on the map. This assignment will be due on Tuesday of next week. What is going to happen with the work posted on Google Classroom? I … Continue reading »

Good Morning, I hope the last few days has gone well for everyone and that all your loved ones are healthy! We have been trying to maintain a schedule here at our home, but have been flexible if things need to change. Having structure during this time is helpful but so is the occasional Madden … Continue reading »