Mr. Mulgrew's Weekly Schedules for College Prep. 2019--2020.
For planning purposes, these assignments are usually etched in stone.
* Last minute changes and resource modifications may not be posted.

http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/ela/0311.pdf

Week Starting 9/3/19

Week Starting 9/9/19

Week starting 9/16/19:

Note--Wednesday 9/18 is a half day, with dismissal at 10:15.

Week starting 9/23/19

The Grade Eight Elements of Fiction Retest is available to ANY student that wishes to score higher.

The following times are available:  

_ During ANY English class, now through the Columbus Day break.  Just tell me when you are better prepared.

_ Monday through Friday before school, 6:45—7:05, I will write you a pass.

_ Thursday after school. (You must book an appointment with me)

_ Any T.G.A.  (Just check with your T.G.A. teacher first)

*Reminder*  If you don’t do something different to study, then your score will not be higher.  Use my website if you have misplaced those notes.  This is the link.

Week starting 9/30/19

Parent Open house/ Curriculum Night is Next week, October 7,  5:15--7:00pm.

Week Starting 10/7/19

Parent Open house/ Curriculum Night is October 7,  5:15--7:00pm.

No classes on Monday due to the Columbus Day Holiday

Week Starting 10/15/19

Week Starting 10/21/19

Week Starting 10/28/19

Term One Ends

Week starting 11/4/19 is listed below:

Week starting 11/12/18  is listed below:  No school on Monday, November 11. VETERANS DAY

Week stating 11/18/19 is listed below:

  Wednesday is a half day and only blocks D, G, and F will meet.

Week starting 12/2/19 is listed below:

Week starting 12/2/19 is listed below:

Week starting 12/9/19 is listed below:

Week starting 12/16/19 is listed below:

Week starting 1/6/20 is listed below:

Week starting 1/13/20 is listed below:

Week starting 1/22/20 is listed below:

Midyear Exam Week

Week starting 1/27/20 is listed below:

Week starting 2/3/20 is listed below:

Week Starting 2/10 20 is listed below:

February Vacation

Week starting 2/24/20 is listed below:

Week starting 3/2/20 is listed below:

Week starting 3/9/20 is listed below:

Covid Interruption:

As far as English class is concerned, we will pick up where we left off when we return to school. At this point, there will not be any new units for students to learn remotely, nor will they be graded on any work during our time apart. The suggestions outlined in this letter are simply for enrichment purposes. The English department is suggesting students spend a bit of time each day on English-related work. This will keep their reading and writing skills fresh, not to mention everyone’s sanity!

Again, I will be holding office hours starting on Monday, March 30 from 9:00am-11:00am to answer questions or to support the BHS Learning Enrichment opportunities posted on our BHS website.  You can find those enrichment materials here: English and Literacy  I encourage you all to do the enrichment opportunities and to share with me what you are doing.   

When we return to school, hopefully on May 4^th, we will continue the work in the novel Red Kayak or Shades of Simon Gray, where there is an essay due for each class.  Although I cannot require the work at this date, know that it will continue when we return, so reading and writing now, will just reduce your workload when we return.  Most classes were done with the first half of the novel, so completing it, and continuing the ISQA writing assignments will make YOUR life easier when we return.  We can evaluate them when we return, but they will not all be due on the first day back.  One each day, when we return, will be fine.  The process of reading and writing with contextual support and analysis is a skill set that will be judged on your MCAS tests, but we do not know the status of those tests yet. 

Above all, your well-being means the most to me. I want to be a source of consistency and comfort in their day, and a resource to you as parents. Please let me know if you have any questions about resources or ways to engage your student  in reading/writing activities. I am here for you all!

Here is the link to my Covid Page.  I wanted you to come here first, so that you could see that we are still in the middle of the novel, and that it is IN YOUR BEST INTEREST TO COMPLETE THAT WORK BEFORE WE RETURN!  I can't require it at this point, but I do envision that most of your classes will start to turn into a giant cram session, and that YOUR STRESS levels may not be a positive part of your life.

After that, or to keep your sanity from boredom, please visit my Covid Page to try and keep your brain moving.  I will be posting ideas, mine and yours, to turn this time into something more positive.  I will also post new materials at the top of the page to reduce the amount of scrolling needed.

Back to work:  From Home
Week starting 4/13/20 is listed below:

4/13/20
Simon or Red Kayak essays.  

Last week you should have completed two or three assignments from the novel, and this week the remaining two or three.  Then get them graded, and then share them with me.  I keep answering this question despite outlining it in multiple emails.  Read your emails, kids!

  Instead of students exchanging each other's work and computers in class, they will do so through "Sharing" in Google Docs, and apply the rubric that we were using, in the same way.  Rubric.  Digital Annotation Directions for Evaluators.

If you were to do that today, the only new advice I could give you is to make sure that when you gets it evaluated, probably from you chose to sit within your group, that person should: 
Click on the top of the document 
Click "INSERT" on the menu at the top bar 
Release on "COMMENT" Type his or her (meaning the evaluator's) name first, then the score and feedback based on the rubric. All of those rubrics and evaluation tasks are still on my website and located one inch above this sentence: that is my plan. We were in mid-novel, so the process is familiar.  The only "New" part is adding the name of the evaluator.

They will be graded as "Meeting Expectations" or "Not Meeting Expectations."  At the end of week starting 4/13, I am required to submit a list of students that are "Not Meeting Expectations" to the hub offices.  I need you to put your brain back to work, and I need to know that you are healthy and safe!

Week starting 4/20/20 is listed below:

On 4/21/20 Governor Baker announced that we will be conducting remote learning for the remainder of the year.  We are still providing work with a restriction of two hours each week, per class.

Week starting 4/27/20 is listed below:
After this week I will no longer be covering the Red Kayak novel, so get those assignments to me or I will have to mark them as "NOT MEETING EXPECTATIONS" which will lower your third trimester grade and yearly average.

Week starting  5/4/20 is listed below:

Starting NEXT WEEK there will be an optional Zoom Meeting for block C on Mondays at 11:00, and for block F it will be Tuesdays at 11:00.  This is a good place to meet with other people in your class and to discuss how you are staying SANE during these different times.  It is also a good place to ask your teacher a question about the work instead of reading and writing more emails.  I will send you the code in an email, and that code will work each week.  If you get to that meeting before I do, you will be placed into a virtual waiting room until I start the meeting.  The meeting will end when all of the questions are answered, so if you arrive late, you might have missed it, but you could always email me questions.  I WORK FAR OUTSIDE MY OFFICE HOURS.

Week starting 5/11/20 is listed below:

Starting THIS WEEKThere will be an optional Zoom Meeting for block C on Mondays at 11:00, and for block F it will be Tuesdays at 11:00.  This is a good place to meet with other people in your class and to discuss how you are staying SANE during these different times.  It is also a good place to ask your teacher a question about the work instead of reading and writing more emails.  I will send you the code in an email, and that code will work each week.  If you get to that meeting before I do, you will be placed into a virtual waiting room until I start the meeting.  The meeting will end when all of the questions are answered, so if you arrive late, you might have missed it, but you could always email me questions.  I WORK FAR OUTSIDE MY OFFICE HOURS.

Week starting 5/18/20 is listed below:

There will be an optional Zoom Meeting for block C on Mondays at 11:00, and for block F it will be Tuesdays at 11:00.  This is a good place to meet with other people in your class and to discuss how you are staying SANE during these different times.  It is also a good place to ask your teacher a question about the work instead of reading and writing more emails.  I will send you the code in an email, and that code will work each week.  If you get to that meeting before I do, you will be placed into a virtual waiting room until I start the meeting.  The meeting will end when all of the questions are answered, so if you arrive late, you might have missed it, but you could always email me questions.  I WORK FAR OUTSIDE MY OFFICE HOURS.

Memorial Day Weekend

Week starting 5/26/20 is listed below:

There will be an optional Zoom Meeting  for block F it will be Tuesdays at 11:00.  This is a good place to meet with other people in your class and to discuss how you are staying SANE during these different times.  It is also a good place to ask your teacher a question about the work instead of reading and writing more emails.  I will send you the code in an email, and that code will work each week.  If you get to that meeting before I do, you will be placed into a virtual waiting room until I start the meeting.  The meeting will end when all of the questions are answered, so if you arrive late, you might have missed it, but you could always email me questions.  I WORK FAR OUTSIDE MY OFFICE HOURS.

Week starting 6/1/20 is listed below:  Hello, June!

There will be an optional Zoom Meeting for block C on Mondays at 11:00, and for block F it will be Tuesdays at 11:00.  This is a good place to meet with other people in your class and to discuss how you are staying SANE during these different times.  It is also a good place to ask your teacher a question about the work instead of reading and writing more emails.  I will send you the code in an email, and that code will work each week.  If you get to that meeting before I do, you will be placed into a virtual waiting room until I start the meeting.  The meeting will end when all of the questions are answered, so if you arrive late, you might have missed it, but you could always email me questions.  I WORK FAR OUTSIDE MY OFFICE HOURS.

Week starting 6/8/20 is listed below:

There will be an optional Zoom Meeting for block C on Mondays at 11:00, and for block F it will be Tuesdays at 11:00.  This is a good place to meet with other people in your class and to discuss how you are staying SANE during these different times.  It is also a good place to ask your teacher a question about the work instead of reading and writing more emails.  I will send you the code in an email, and that code will work each week.  If you get to that meeting before I do, you will be placed into a virtual waiting room until I start the meeting.  The meeting will end when all of the questions are answered, so if you arrive late, you might have missed it, but you could always email me questions.  I WORK FAR OUTSIDE MY OFFICE HOURS.

Week starting 6/15/20 is listed below:

There will be an optional Zoom Meeting for block C on Mondays at 11:00, and for block F it will be Tuesdays at 11:00.  This is a good place to meet with other people in your class and to discuss how you are staying SANE during these different times.  It is also a good place to ask your teacher a question about the work instead of reading and writing more emails.  I will send you the code in an email, and that code will work each week.  If you get to that meeting before I do, you will be placed into a virtual waiting room until I start the meeting.  The meeting will end when all of the questions are answered, so if you arrive late, you might have missed it, but you could always email me questions.  I WORK FAR OUTSIDE MY OFFICE HOURS.

Week starting 6/22/20 is listed below:

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