Hello Beautiful People!

This digital learning thing is a bit complicated, but we'll all get through it together.  

Make sure you log in to CTLS every day during your class time to join the Live Session.

All of your assignments are currently on Google Classroom.  Make sure that you have made copies of the templates each day and have submitted your Google Doc for scoring.  

It is imperative that you join your class's Remind.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free.

Kim Bundschu

End of Semester and School Closings

Hello Students!

This is the end.  This is it. 

The last day for Seniors is today.  The last day for any work from Underclassmen is Friday. 

Seniors, you have until midnight to turn in work. I will post your final grades on Thursday. 

Underclassmen, my grades are due on Friday.  You may submit any final grades until 10am to give me time to grade them before my deadline. 

All of the work is posted on Google Classroom.  The last assignment posted is also your Final Exam grade, should you choose to take that opportunity.  World Lit students, because your assignment is a choice board, the Final Exam grade will reflect the added grades of 2 formative assessments, or 1 summative assessment. 

This is the last chance to bring up your average to the grade you want for your GPA.

The building will be closed all summer due to construction. 

If you have any questions, please feel free.

All of the Remaining Assignments

Hello Students,

You may have noticed that I have added all of the assignments from now until the end of the semester to both StudentVue and Google Classroom with the exception of the Argument Choice Project and Final Exam.

If you wish to work ahead, you absolutely may. 

Honors Reading Schedule and Assignment List Links

On Level Reading Schedule and Assignment List Links

As always, if you have any questions, please let me know.  Remember, my phone number is in my signature and when you text, make sure you tell me who you are. 

Happy Monday.

The Rest of the Semester for World Lit

Hello Students!

As you probably know from the notifications you've been getting from Google Classroom, I've graded and put in a bunch of grades in the last week.  For each assignment that I've graded, but there was a problem with, I've added a comment to that assignment in your StudentVue.  Usually the problem was either something wasn't submitted, or you submitted the wrong file--in either case, you absolutely may go back and fix it.  Once I am finished grading the work so far, I'll send out individual emails about where your grade stands.  Please use this opportunity to continue preparing for next year and getting your GPA as high as possible.  For those of you who have been doing just that, thank you.  I have truly enjoyed seeing your work.  I miss you all so much. 

Because we are about 4 weeks away from the end of this school year, we wanted to go ahead and give you the breakdown of assignments due over the next 4 weeks.  Because I wanted to give you this information sooner rather than later, some of the prompts on the list are not yet finalized--they all will be by next week.  Make sure you pace yourselves and don't get behind--especially with the reading chapters. 

The last day to submit any work will be Friday May 15th to ensure we have time to grade it before our grades are due.  We have yet to be informed about how they want us to handle Final Exams, and once we know, you'll know.  (I am anticipating they will tell us to do some kind of product assessment--write an essay, create a presentation, etc., which is why Monday and Tuesday during finals week are set aside for preparation.) 

Honors Argument Reading Schedule and Assignment List

On Level Argument Reading Schedule and Assignment List

As always, if you have any questions, please let me know.  If you are having any difficulties, please let me know.  Remember, my @campbellhigh.net account or texting my phone number are the easiest ways to get quick questions answered. 

Concerning Grades

Hello Students,

I have had a bunch of students contact me in reference to grades moving forward.  Based on the meeting we had this week with administration, this is what I need you, yes you, to do.

I need you to understand that learning will still be happening in all of your classes.  We have been out of school for a month now, and we literally left physical school on the halfway point of the semester.  As of then, you only had 1/2 of the learning you needed to be successful in your class next year.  Since we've been gone, we finished how to analyze poetry, we've worked on how to analyze plays for character interaction and how that impacts the plot and creation of the work as a whole, and we're about to work on argument writing. 

Argument writing is one of the most important things we do all year.  It is one of the biggest things that impacts your success in the 11th grade English classes.  I saved it for the end because I wanted it to be closer to your classes next year.  I, like many people, was not expecting the scale of this pandemic to be what it has become.

Yes, your grade will not go down from where you are right now.  However, you still need to learn.  You don't come to school to get good grades, although it might feel like that.  Grades are just a reflection of how much you learn.  You come to school so that you can learn and grow and be better prepared to live life.  Everything you do in my class, as well as many other classes, is geared towards being better prepared for what you will do once you leave my class--whether your plan is college, the work force, trade school, or even if you don't have a plan right now.  If you ever want to know how an activity will prepare you for life, just ask politely and I'll answer--an offer that I made at the beginning of the semester, and I still make now. 

Please, use this situation, this unfortunate and frustrating situation, to better yourself.  To do the work that will help you be more successful next year and in your next step of life.  There is no opt-in/opt-out.  The learning is still here and, as it has been since the beginning of the semester, the choice is yours whether you rise to the challenge or not. 

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to become the best You you can be.  I believe in you.  I hope you believe in yourself too.  Especially since we're only expecting 2 hours of work from you total per day. 

This is a great opportunity to boost your GPA because you have the time, and the opportunities, to make your grades as good as you can before the end of the semester.  It would be foolish to waste the opportunity to get a 4.0 this semester in all of your classes.

We've been given permission to start entering grades into Synergy.  I'm going to cross reference any grade you make with your averages in that category (we have 6 of them--we still don't know what's going to happen with the Final Exam) and if it is higher than your average in that category, it will go in.  If not, I've been told to leave it blank.  I will put a comment on it, and you can always see your numerical score on Google Classroom or Turnitin.com. 

I do understand that many of us have a whole bunch of heavy things happening in our lives.  I know this pandemic has affected you in ways we didn't predict.  Some people have lost friends or family to Covid-19.  Some people have friends and family who are sick--some in the hospital, some at home.  Many people have lost their jobs and are worried not only about getting things like food, but also making rent at the end of the month (food drop off at the school is on Mondays--please email if you need information about this).  Some people are in challenging situations that are unique.  This is hard.  This is big.  This is life changing.  We are unfortunately living through one of those points in history that will have an entire chapter in future history books.  I would not have wished this on my worst enemy, let alone all of you.  I became a teacher because I care about you and I want you to do amazing things and I hate how this is happening to us.  All we can do is keep on and doing the best we can.  Your best doesn't have to be perfect.  Your best is just that, your best.  That is all I have ever expected of you, and I understand if your best now isn't the same as your best was 6 weeks ago. 

If you need help, please let me know.  I can't look over your shoulder and see how you are doing.  What I can do is ask if you need help and give you that help as you need it.  I have tried to make my instructions as clear as possible.  If you need help, please, let me know.  If you feel behind, please let me know.  In fact, if you respond to this letter in Google Classroom with how you are doing, you will earn an extra Reading grade--type it in a Google Doc and Add it to the assignment.

I miss all of your faces so much.  I hope you and your family are safe, secure, and healthy.  I hope that you are doing your best.

Sincerely,
Kim Bundschu

Week 13 -- Welcome Back from Spring Break.

Welcome Back,

I hope you had a fantastic Spring Break.  I am sorry that we are still in this situation and that your friends, family, and loved ones are staying as safe as they can and as healthy as possible.  

This week in World Lit we'll be putting together our study of the different plotlines in A Midsummer Night's Dream and composing an essay.  It is due on Thursday and we'll be working on one piece of the essay each day.  Today is just Prewriting (some students asked for a catch-up day--this is it).  Tomorrow we'll talk about what goes into a good Introduction.  Wednesday will be about body paragraphs, Thursday about conclusions and editing.

As always, please let me know if you have any difficulties or need any help.  I'll have my zoom Open House on Tuesday from 10:30-11:30 if you want to pop by and ask any questions--it's an informal meeting, attendance is voluntary.  

As for Yearbook, since I have so many seniors in the class, please talk to your other teachers this week and get your grades where you want them to be.  On Wednesday, we'll have a weekly session and we'll talk about what individuals need to do to get their grades where they need to be.  

Have a great Monday.

Week 11 End, Week 12 Preview

Hello Students,

I hope you are all doing well.  I miss y'all so much.

If you also want to see other people's faces, I'm going to be hosting a Zoom meeting (Zoom is an online video chat program) on Tuesdays from 10:30-11:30, starting on 3/31.  This will be an open discussion for any questions or clarifications you might have.  Or for you to just to say hi and see everyone.  I'll be sending an invitation email with the link specifically to all students' @campbellhigh.net accounts.  If you want to be prepared, you can go to zoom.us and create an account by clicking "Sign in with Google" and use your @campbellhigh.net account.  It will also ask you do download an app, which is very helpful. 

As of today, we've been in Social Distance Learning for 2 weeks.  Up until this point I haven't put any "due dates" on assignments, but the expectation is that you are working on these assignments for about 30 minutes on the date on the assignment.  To clear up some confusion, from now on I'll be assigning due dates for each assignment--the same date I've been putting in the title of the assignment.  If you will not be able to submit that assignment on the due date, please let me know.  I want to make sure that you aren't going to get overwhelmed with a back log of work, and this lets me know how I can best support you.

The assignment for reading A Midsummer Night's Dream has been posted in Google Classroom.  I have put a copy of the assignments on the Resources Page, along with the other past due assignments, but all work is due on Google Classroom, unless another website is specified. 

As always, if you have any questions, I would love to hear from you.  You have a couple of options:  You can ask the question privately or publically on the assignment in Google Classroom.  You can email me at kimberly [dot] bundschu [at] campbellhigh [dot] net.  Or you can text me at seven seven oh, six oh nine, five four eight one.

I look forward to hearing from you and hope to see you on Tuesday.