Dear Students, Parents, and
Guardians,
This is Ms. Mogilefsky, the
English 3 teacher. Thank you for all of your support during this strange time.
Sadly, the class was right in the middle of a unit filled with reading,
writing, and interesting debates and discussions. I want to continue making
progress, with an understanding that students are adjusting to the change and
many have family responsibilities as well.
English Class
– Online for the Next Two Weeks
During the two week period
leading up to Spring Break, please check the assignments posted on the existing
class website at:
I will post there Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday mornings with reading and writing assignments. The class
will also be using Turnitin.com (the discussion tab and assignments tab), and
Goodreads.com, and students already have logins and have utilized both of these
sites. While it will never replace the face-to-face discussions that are so
valuable in a classroom, the Turnitin.com discussion tab will allow students to
respond to posted discussion questions and view and respond to each other’s
posts. Students will have a full week to respond, but I encourage students to
keep up as much as possible.
There are many other
excellent online learning tools available, but I am reluctant to ask students
to learn new software while working from home for a (hopefully) temporary
situation. (Yes, I have already had students requesting to debate each other
over Zoom or Discord!)
College Prep -
Optional
If you (or your student) is
planning on applying to colleges later in the year, the PVHS College and Career
Center has some optional recommendations for this time period:
1. Check and make sure that
your Naviance login and password are working. Naviance has new parameters for
passwords, so you may be prompted to update your password when you try to log
in. If you have any trouble, please e-mail a request to Ms. Lewis at lewisja@pvpusd.net for a login/password
reset.
https://www.youvisit.com/collegesearch/
https://campustours.com/
https://www.niche.com/
https://www.unigo.com/colleges
Note: per Ms. Lewis, some
colleges track logins, virtual tours, and time on university websites as
“demonstrated interest” which can be a factor in admissions, and others do not.
If a student is at all interested in a college, whether or not you get to visit
that college in person, it's good to spend some time doing the virtual tours as
you’ll learn more about what you might like to do and experience on that
campus. This includes what you’d like to take advantage of and what will help
you grow and discover the person you are meant to be – whether or not it
"counts" as demonstrating interest.
Independent Reading
As I have said a
(nauseating?) number of times, free reading about anything you’re interested in
is helpful and gratifying in many ways. If that’s not enough incentive, Ms.
Lewis of the College and Career Center shared with me that a complaint many
college admissions officers have is that when asked what book they are
currently reading outside of school, many students say, “None.” It’s good to
have a genuine opinion about a book or three.
If you find yourself in the
predicament of being stuck home without any new books (!) the L.A. County
library has a wonderful online service for checking out e-books that can be
read online.
Also, the class is already
on Goodreads; feel free to get some book ideas there and comment on anything
I’ve read or want to read, my reviews, and your classmates’ reviews.
Send me a selfie as you are reading a book and I may post it
on the class website during these two weeks!
Volunteers
If you’re interested in
volunteering to do a taped reading that I could post on the class website, or
any other such volunteer work over the break, please e-mail me and let me know.
Contact
I will continue to be in
contact with you during this distance learning setup. I will be available and
answering e-mails up until Spring Break. Please feel free to reach out to me
with any questions or concerns.
All the best,
Ms. Mogilefsky
mogilefskya@pvpusd.net
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