Welcome to a new semester! It’s 2022 and graduation is around the corner. Let’s make this one count.

FINAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

• Turn in books at school if you haven’t
• Take the survey!!! (you have to be logged into Google w/ school account or you will get an error)
• GCHS grades are now final in Skyward
• SWIC grades will be in soon (if you are transferring credit somewhere, be sure to log in to estorm and send your transcripts wherever they need to go – it’s FREE)
• YOU DID IT!!! Congratulations.

VIRTUAL OFFICE HOURS (LAST DAY) –  today from 10a – 12p via zoom (use the May zoom invite – we’ll keep zooming until May 14th).  Stop in if you have questions, want extra feedback, or just want to check in.

END OF SEMESTER WRAP-UP- See yesterday’s post.  If you didn’t turn things in at school earlier this week, make-up day is Friday and the office is still open next week from 7:30 – 11am Monday – Wednesday.

❤ Mrs. C = )

P.S. It’s not too late to submit MG Presentations and/or booktalks on Flipgrid or to take the end-of-semester survey.  Help me plan a better class for next year.

Hopefully, this post finds you with your final projects finalized and submitted in Dropbox.  (If not, get to that, I have grades to turn in!)  To those of you that worked and worked despite this stay-at-home, thank you.  You made my job worthwhile.  To those of you that just did the best you could – keep on keepin’ on – I understand.  Maybe we live in a society that stifles this too much – that tells us to bottle up feelings – but know, seniors, I love you all. Really. ❤

QW EXTRA CREDIT INFO:  Show me your notebook entries virtually for bonus points. (Check your class Flipgrid).  KEEP YOUR NOTEBOOKS!  (They are yours.  Put them in a drawer or a closet or something.  You won’t believe how interesting they will be in a few years, when you can revisit your 17-year-old self).  Quickwrite evidence due by end of Thursday 5/14.

IT’S NOT TOO LATE  to turn in booktalks and/or MG Presentations.

VIRTUAL OFFICE HOURS: I will STILL hold these tomorrow if you are running behind and still need to catch up on work.  Stop by with questions if needed.

TURN IN BOOKS:  If you have classroom library books, copies of Hamlet,  or book club reads that you missed turning in, please drop them off at the high school office.  This week is turn in with scheduled times, but they will be open next Monday – Wednesday from 7:30 – 11am, too.  KEEP YOUR NOTEBOOKS!

SURVEY: Please fill out the end of course survey.  You can link on Google classroom or through the email you will get later today (I will be recording in Skyward who has completed the survey & I’d love to get them all back by 5/13).

GRADES: Be patient with your teachers where grades are concerned.  First, they aren’t final until Monday morning 5/18.  Second, teachers have had to make all sorts of adaptations to find ways to record in their gradebooks who is completing work and what is missing and how that impacts your grade, while knowing that performance on new work can’t lower the grade you had previous to remote learning, but it can improve your grade.  So, expect a few ups and downs and know that we are/I am taking the time to get this right.

END OF YEAR WRAP-UP:  I made a video that puts together the concepts we learned this year (or some this semester English 8).  I’d love it if you took the time to check it out and see how you will/can use what you learned in college and beyond.

VIRTUAL OFFICE HOURS today from 10a – 12p via zoom (use the May zoom invite – we’ll keep zooming until May 14th).  Stop in if you have questions, want extra feedback, or just want to check in.

Check yesterday’s class specific posts for details on what’s due and how, exactly, to label it, submit it, etc.  And PLEASE fill out the survey.  (I’ll send it again tomorrow to those who haven’t yet filled it out.)

Last project. Due today.  You got this.

❤ Mrs. C = )

P.S. It’s not too late to submit MG Presentations and/or booktalks on Flipgrid!

You should have received word from GCHS about when to report for locker clean-out, book return, yearbook pickup, etc.  Senior returns are Tuesday & Wednesday (there is a specific schedule for when to report based on your last name – please check it).  You’ll need to report to the annex to get started and please wear a mask of some kind.

FOR MRS. C’s ENGLISH, please return the following:

English 8 – any classroom library books (I will send individual reminders, but if you happen to have any stray books, return those too), any BOOK CLUB books you still have.  DO NOT return your notebooks! Those are YOURS – I am NOT collecting them.

Rhetoric & Comp – any classroom library books (I will send individual reminders, but if you happen to have any stray books, return those too), any Hamlet books you still have. DO NOT return your notebooks! Those are YOURS – I am NOT collecting them.

DONATIONS: I have had students ask about donating to the class library.  If you have books that you know you won’t reread, and you don’t have younger siblings who will pick them up, and they will just sit on a shelf until your parent eventually takes them to Goodwill, drop them off when you return books.  BUT you’ll need to put them in a bag and label them for Mrs. Connolly or no one will know what they are for.  (If they are not quite right for the class library of 251, I promise to find them a good home in another class library – I have teacher friends both at GCHS and Coolidge.) Share the magic.