Found out this morning that we will be taking the state ELA test next week Tuesday-Thursday.  As a result the Art Replication project due dates are pushed back a full week.  The assignment sheet has been updated, but the dates are April 3 for Hours 3,5,7, and April 4 for Hour 2.

Juniors and Seniors can sign up for Career Fair speakers here for March 20.

The Career Fair will be on March 20, the first advisory after spring break. Please share the short link with your junior and senior classes. The junior class will be required to attend at least two speakers during the one hour career fair. The seniors have the option to attend if they are interested in a particular speaker or career, or they can have a study hall in their advisory that day.

As the advisory teacher, you will remain in your room during that time, while your junior students attend speakers in other rooms. The junior advisory rooms will each have a speaker assigned to them, but you can remain in your room and work during the time the speakers are there.

Due to circumstances out of my control, both due to the weather and its subsequent schedule changes affecting Friday especially, we will push Vocab 9 to next week.  Today/Friday will be dedicated to finishing the final Martian Chronicles test and working on getting makeup assignments finished.  We will also discuss Case Study #7 in more depth in relation to the prompt for the essay.  I'm not putting a set date on it yet (have you seen the forecast for Monday????)   Be ready to start Vocab 9 Monday, but not guaranteeing that's when we take/start it.

This NYT article about the latest Nike ad featuring Serena Williams is a great companion resource to our ongoing conversation about perspective and context affecting our perception.

Vocab 9 and Martian Chronicles completion this week.

Reminder:  I will NOT be available for Wednesday conferences.  I added the message to Skyward and it should have gone out, but please relay this message to your parents if they do not check this site.  I am happy to make other arrangements. 

Grades: Obviously, everything is backed up at this point, so grades are too.  Please remember that quarter grades don't really mean anything, as all classes and grades are semester based only.  In other words, there is not an average between quarter 3 and 4 in any class, it is all just one big grade from January to May.  Numbers will start to fill in, but I will not give "easy to grade" assignments just for the sake of numbers or to "get something in the book" as this would be neither an authentic representation of your performance nor an authentic representation of our goals in class.