Open House, Subplans, and New Unit

Hello Parents!

While Open House is this week on Thursday, since I am the Yearbook Adviser, I'll be selling yearbooks during Open House hours.  If you'd like to schedule a one on one conference, please feel free to contact me.  If you'd just like to touch base about your student, emailing me is the best way to contact me. 

We've just finished up our introductory unit in Multicultural Lit and are beginning to start working with the Springboard texts.  Students can access this text through clever.com, logging in with Active Directory at school, and with their firstname.lastname@students.cobbk12.org accounts at home (the password is your computer password).

Yearbook is beginning to get into the swing of things and planning how we are going to focus our coverage.  Students will continue this conversation and discussion of how we want to showcase the school this year.

Hello Students!

As I stated in class today, you'll have a substitute teacher on Wednesday.  This does not mean it's a free day!  We'd be doing the same activity if I were in class.  I expect that you will treat the substitute teacher with respect and make me proud as I read my notes on Thursday morning.

Multicultural Lit:
I expect you to finish all of the following steps.

1. Today you will complete activity 1.3 in Springbroard on pages 7 and 8.  You will turn this in to the teacher before you leave.
2. You will start with annotating the Learning Targets (circle the verb, underline the direct object).  Read the instructions under “How Are Perspectives Different?” carefully.  This gives you the scenario you’ll be analyzing as well as how to complete the graphic organizer on page 8.
3. Complete the graphic organizer on page 8, answer the question to Check your Understanding in “My Notes” section on page 8.
4. On another sheet of paper, complete the Narrative Writing Prompt.
5. Staple both of these together and turn in with your name on the front page.

Yearbook:

I expect you to finish all of the following steps.

• After you finish with the IDs, I want you to continue to work on the ladder.
• You will turn in a completed, in pencil, list on the attached pages.  You can leave page topics blank, but I want to know how many pages will go in which section, which order of sections do you want.  
• Ie: how many pages will we use for the opening, student life section, senior life section, senior portraits, junior portraits, sophomore portraits, freshmen portraits, faculty section (4 pages!), athletics, clubs and organizations, academics, ads, and index.  Don’t forget 1 or 2 pages for dividers between sections (do we want a spread?  Or just either a right side or left side of the page for a divider?).  
• Use the stickies to help inform your decisions.  Make some decisions about the clubs (do not cut anything out at this point, but you might want to assign more than one club a page--if so, which would make sense to go on the same page?)
• You may also discuss whether we want to stick with 176 pages, or go up to 180 or 184 pages (those are really our options based on price). 

Have a great week!

Happy Friday! Dialectical Journal and Yearbook to-dos

Hello All!

Thank you for a wonderful week.

Multi Lit students:  Click here to get the Precourse Reading Rubric.  If you answer all of the blue questions on your graphic organizer, you should be fine.  Remember, this is due next Friday, but my hope is that everyone will be done by Tuesday.

Yearbook Students:  Be thinking of what themes we could possibly apply to our book.  Our to-do-list for next week includes:

• Filling out our contact sheet
• Signing up for groups
• Photo project presentations on Monday
• Figuring out our theme!
• Figure out our budget
• Work on our ladder!

Have a great weekend!

My Login Information Link

Hello Multicultural Lit Students!

Click here to find the my login information assignment.  It is due today.

Happy Wednesday!

Dialectical Journal and Syllabus Links

Hello All,

If you have not done so yet, please get your syllabus signed and returned.

Multicultrual Lit Syllabus
Yearbook/Journalism Syllabus

Tomorrow we'll begin working with the Precourse Reading Dialectical Journal Graphic Organizer in our Multi Lit class.  The final due date is next week Friday, but I expect that you'll be able to turn it in on Tuesday so you don't have to worry about it being late. 

Yearbook class, don't forget to work on your Photography Project as well as your Ethic's Blog--both are on google classroom.

Have a great week!

Week 1 down!

Hello Students!

Parents, I've cced you on

The first Friday is down and we are getting ready for our first full week.

Today we handed out our syllabi.  Please make sure that you get that signed and returned as quickly as possible.  If you need an extra copy, click on the link below:

Multicultrual Lit Syllabus
Yearbook/Journalism Syllabus

Next week in Multi Lit we'll be reading through our precourse reading and working on perfecting our Dialectical Journals so bring your copy of Between the World and Me.

Next week in Yearbook we'll start our Photography Project (due Friday), begin going over concepts of ethics, how to have good interviews, and how to write good articles.  We'll also have our vocabulary quiz. 

I'm so happy that you are all in my classes and I look forward to working with you throughout the semester!

Welcome to Fall 2018

Hello All!

I am so excited to move up to Senior Lit with you this year.  I know that we will have a fantastic semester together and I'm so excited to see you graduate this Spring.

As a reminder, the Precourse Reading for our Multicultural Lit class is "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates.  Just as the last 3 years, you will complete a Dialectical Journal that will be turned in to turnitin.com.  You can find a copy of a template you can copy and use here.  You should bring the book with you, either physically or on an electronic device (personally I'm reading the kindle version on my phone) on the first day of school.

I'm looking forward to seeing you next Wednesday!  Enjoy your last week of break!

Kim Bundschu

Campbell High School

Senior Lit

Yearbook Adviser

Room 923

http://bundschu.blogspot.com/

770-609-5481

Precourse Reading for Next Year

Congratulations everyone!  

I want to thank you all so much for making this year so successful.  You are all amazing people and I am very grateful I got to have all of you in my room this year.  

I know the year is just now over, but as you know, the easiest way to start the next year strong is to do the Precourse Reading *before* the course starts.  You can find a copy of the assignment here.  You can make a copy of the Dialectical Journal Template here.  Go ahead and talk with your parents about picking up the book for the English course you're signed up for and make a plan for when you're going to complete this assignment.  If I were you, I'd do my future self a favor and plan to start reading the week of June 4th and complete the assignment the week of June 11th.  I would go ahead and order the book, and set reminders on my phone for those weeks so I make sure I do it.  That way I'd be done with it and it wouldn't be hanging over my head all summer.  Either way, make a plan that works for you and do it!

I hope you all have a fantastic summer.