2020-'21 7th Grade Blog

 I revised the schedule to more accurately reflect the phased dismissal schedule. In essence, the zoom calls end somewhere between 2:15-2:30 on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Wednesday is longer due to PE.  This allows the school to start its phased dismissal. Depending on the age of their siblings at school, some 7th graders leave at 2:30 and then another group at 2:45 and finally the rest of the class at 3 PM. On Friday, we will have a coordinating zoom call at 8:30 AM to go over assignments for that day. This is the planned structure going forward.

 

 Starting Monday the 16th, I will have half the students at school and the other half at home. Starting times have moved forward from 8:30 AM to 8 AM. No excuses. Mrs. Fitzpatrick has made it clear that anyone signing on to a Zoom call at 8:01 AM will be marked tardy.   Dismissal is staggered at school depending on whether a student has siblings or not. In general, zoom calls will end at 2:10 PM except Wednesday when music runs to 2:25 PM. There will be minimal zoom calls on Friday although some work will be provided. The work provided will usually be due at 3 PM that day. Detention: We will start holding detention sessions at 1 PM on Friday when the rest of the class is given time to do Aleks. Everyone who has received even one detention will be on this week's detention Zoom session. Students will be given an assignment that should take approximately 30 minutes. If the student fails to complete the assignment or turns in substandard work, they will need to repeat the detentio...