Picture Day & Course Description

Today we took a quick quiz on the course description and, after getting our school pictures taken, annotated the course description and talked through some of the key points.

Some Community Building

Today we spent the period in a community building circle. Tomorrow is picture day and signed course descriptions are due.

Smartphones & School

Today we spent the period practicing our website evaluation skills and considering how important our phones are to us. After discussing the credibility of the site, we took the Smartphone Compulsion Test and did some reflection on our scores. Afterward, I shared a bit of research on smartphone use and then explained my electronics policy.

Rules, Norms, and Smartphones

Today we started a longer look at smartphones and their place in our classroom with a bit of reflection. We also continued our discussion of rules and norms, coming up with some classroom norms we can hopefully all agree on.

Rules, Continued

Today we continued our discussion of rules and why we have them. Students also received the course description which should be read and signed by Friday, 8/31.

Grading & Rules

Today we spent a few minutes looking at our first graded assignment and talking about how grading works in this class. After that, we started a discussion about the importance of rules in society. More on that Monday.

The First Day

We began the year thinking about what it means to be a sophomore and what it means for who students are as they start the year. Today's assignment was collected.