I hope today finds you and your family doing well during these strange and difficult times.
We will ease our way back into things today with a few goals. First, we will reconnect with each other. We have a great sense of community in our class and I miss all of you! It will be great to see and hear from each other once again. Two weeks ago, during the "Act of God" days, a few of you shared videos through the Flipgrid I set up for our class. Thanks so all of you who gave it a try! Today we will put it to use as a way to just check in with each other. Just give us a little update about how things are going for you - what has been challenging, what you have been doing with your time, what you are thinking / feeling / hoping. Try to have it be between 30 and 60 seconds. Then, later today or tomorrow, spend a little time watching everyone else's videos! Here's how to connect: Go to this link: https://flipgrid.com/riglerfreshman and use the code "riglerfreshman"
Second, we need to spend some time reminding ourselves about the novel we were reading: A Tale of Two Cities. I created a (hopefully) fun way to do that by using emojis.
But first, to get us thinking about emojis, here is a little Sporcle quiz. In class, I would have run it as a competition. Good luck!
After that, here's what you will do:
- Go to this chart to see which chapter(s) you were assigned, and which slides you will use in the slideshow.
- Go to this slideshow. The directions are on the first slide and here as well.
- You will create two slides:
- The first one is just emojis - no words! (even though the example uses words). On it, you must include two key points / events from the chapter and one quotation.
- The second one gives “the answer” - writing out the two points / events and the quotation.
- Make sure you put your work onto your assigned slides!
- Have fun designing your slide! use any background or design you like. Also, please name which chapters you are emoji-fying!
Tomorrow we will look through the slide show and I'll share the calendar of the next few weeks with you. If you have any questions, please email me at nrigler@dist113.org - I'll be online all day and then I'll check it periodically throughout the afternoon and evening.
