Per 4 Eng2P-Keegan 2020--2021 Assignments
- Instructor
- Brendan Keegan
- Term
- 2020-2021 School Year
- Department
- English
- Description
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Upcoming Assignments
No upcoming assignments.
Past Assignments
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Final Assessment
Use the attached slides to create your final assessment. Follow the directions and complete slides #4, 5, 7.
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LFBJ Final Chunk
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LFBJ Chunk 6
After we read through Chunk 6, you need to go through and complete all the annotations on your own
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Foot Soldier or Birmingham
Use the attached picture to answer the questions on the attached document.
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LFBJ Chunk 5
Complete all questions and pink boxes embedded in the reading.
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LFBJ Chunk #4
Complete all the close reading questions/pink boxes after reading Chunk 4
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LFBJ Chunk 3
Make sure to answer all the pink box questions as well as underlining and highlighting where instructed to do so.
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LFBJ Section 1 & 2
Use the attached document for reading sections 1 and 2 of Dr. King's Letter from Birmingham Jail. Make sure the answer all the question in the pink boxes.
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Chunk 3 Lesson
Finish the close reading for chunk 3. Answer the pink box questions.
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Letter to Viceroy Text/TDQs
The full text is here with embedded TDQs
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In Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I have a dream" speech, King says, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." 1. What does this quote mean to you? 2. Do you think Dr. King's message is still meaningful today?
Please answer in complete sentences and number each response 1. and 2. so that I can see where your answers are located.
Writing a single sentence for each question is not enough.
Writing a single sentence for each question is not enough.
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Night Summative Response
Answer each of the questions in the boxes provided on the attached document. Make sure to include evidence from the text and write in complete sentences.
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Night Evidence Collector
Fill in the evidence collector as we read the memoir. You will use the evidence and analysis in a final summative project
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Liberation and Revenge Questions
Watch the clips and answer the questions attached.
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Night Ch 5 TDQs
As we read Ch 5, answer the questions attached.
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Maus--Reading Connection
Read Maus. It's in the back of your Night book on pages 138--140.
Then answer the questions in the document attached.
Then answer the questions in the document attached.
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Night Ch 4 Notes/TDQs
Fill in the notes questions as we read Ch 4. Then answer the TDQs.
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Night Ch 3 TDQs
Answer the questions as you read chapter 3
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Ch 3 CER Paragraph
Use the attached document to find the instructions and formatting for this writing. Read 51 of middle of 53 page break to find your quote to use for this CER. Make sure the cite the page number for the quote you copy.
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DWA
Attach a picture or a scanned PDF copy of your written DWA
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Poisonous Mushroom
After reading the story, answer the TDQs
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Murder and Intrigue Video Lesson
Watch the attached BBC documentary and answer the questions attached
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Night Ch 2 Reading
Read along with the attached zoomcast of ch 2. Answer the TDQs attached as you read
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Night Ch 1 TDQs
As we read Ch 1 fill out the TDQ's.
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Ben F. Interview Questions
After watching the interview, answer the questions.
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"A Spring Morning"
Page 126 of your Night book. Read the short story and review the ideas in the attached google slides. There are no questions to answer. This is a powerful story to begin this unit on Night and I always cry at the end of it.
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Night Themes/Triangle of Oppression
Watch the attached zoom cast to better understand the themes and ideas we will be looking at in Night
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Surprise Beginnings
Watch the attached youtube video and complete the questions attached
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AF Final Draft
Use this blank copy for your Animal Farm Essay final draft. Format is already done. Just fix it with your personal information. You will also submit this on Turnitin.com.
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AF Essay Skeleton
Use the skeleton to build your essay.
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AF Ch 9--10 Reading Questions
As we read chapter 9 and 10
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AF Ch 10 Text
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AF Ch 9 Text
Use the attached copy of ch 9 to read and annotate for the evidence collector.
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Yearbook Picture
Please attach a photo of yourself that meets the yearbook requirements.
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Setting Goals/Reflection Q3
Use the attached slides presentation to set your goals for the next 4 weeks and to fill in your reflections as we move through the weeks.
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AF Ch 7--8 Reading Questions
Answer these questions as you read ch 7 and 8 this week.
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AF Ch 8 Text
Use the attached copy of ch 8 to read and highlight evidence for the prompt and then copy the evidence into your evidence collector
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AF Ch 7 Text
Watch the zoom recording attached as you read along with chapter 7
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AF Ch 4--6 Reading Guide questions
Answer only the questions that pertain to ch 4
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AF Ch 6 Text
Highlight important lines of evidence as we read ch 6
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AF Ch 5 Text
Read ch 5 and highlight examples for the evidence collector. I attached the version we highlighted today in class
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AF Ch 4 Text
Read ch 4 in Animal Farm on your own before class on Monday. Highlight lines that support our prompt
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AF Ch 3 Reading Guide Questions
After reading Chapter 3 in Animal Farm, answer all the missing questions
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AF Ch 3 Text
As you read chapter 3, highlight lines that might support our essay prompt
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AF Chapters 1& 2 Reading Questions
Answer the reading questions as we read chapters 1 & 2
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AF Chapter 2 Text
Use the copy of Ch 2 to read and annotate evidence for the essay.
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Old Major Close Read Ch 1
Use the attached document to review Old Major's speech again
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AF Chapter 1 Text
Chapter 1 is attached for you to annotate in your own way--highlight and define vocabulary, ask questions, Highlight important passages, etc
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Q3 Pre-Reading Socratic Seminar
The attached document has all the questions that might be asked on the Socratic Seminar tomorrow. Review all questions and be prepared to speak on any one of them that are asked. Groups will be set up in the same format as the final exam
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Animal Farm (AF) Peardeck Intro Slides
Use the link to join this Pear Deck activity!
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Socratic Seminar Final Exam Prep
Fill in the attached document with your group before the final exam on Tuesday 1/19
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Life After People
After reading the pdf version of Life After People, fill in the attached Cause/Effect document with your group
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The Metamorphosis
Read the attached story excerpt and answer the embedded questions
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My Life as a Bat
Read the story and answer the questions
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How has your life changed because of Covid? Where have you embraced it? Where have you resisted it? Explain Why. Think about home life, school life, social life. Use examples or anecdotes from all 3 areas. Explain. Explain. Explain.
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Personal Change Goals & Reflections
Use the attached document to set goals for each week and to reflect on your experience.
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December Change Project
Use the attached slides presentation to complete your assignment.
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"The Lottery" w/ Embedded Q's
As we read the story, answer the embedded questions. Each question is worth 5 points.
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Change Videos
Watch all the videos in the attached document. Take notes and write a reflection for each in the document attached. This is due today at the end of class
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"Rebirth" Poem Analysis
Complete the attached analysis in small groups. If you don't finish it together, you will need to complete the assignment on your own.
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"Learn'd Astronomer" Poem Analysis
Complete the attached poetry analysis of Walt Whitman's poem "The Learn'd Astronomer"
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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Use the blank document template attached to complete your own copy as we work through the poem as a class
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TKAM Chapter Assignments
You will use the attached slides document to collect and create all assignments and activities for Chapters 1-31 in To Kill a Mockingbird. This is a very large assignment occurring over the next 5 weeks of school. Occasionally, I will grade individual slides for completeness or content.
***Make sure to finish your Vocabulary List***
***Make sure to finish your Vocabulary List***
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TKAM Essay Skeleton
Fill in the body paragraph sections of the skeleton as well as the conclusion. You will turn this in when we turn in the final draft of the essay
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TKAM Essay Final Draft
Use the attached blank, formatted document to create the final draft of you TKAM essay.
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TKAM Ch 28--31 Slides
Complete the two slides after finishing the novel.
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TKAM Ch 27
Listen to the attached audio of Ch 27 as you read it this weekend.
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TKAM Ch 25 & 26 Slides
Complete the two slides attached as we read both chapters
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TKAM Ch 20 Ethos/Pathos/Logos
Complete the attached document and submit by 3pm today.
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TKAM Ch 20 RJ slide
Compose a readers journal on the slide attached.
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TKAM CH 17 Slide--Mayella
Watch the youtube movie clip of Chapter 17 and read along with the reader. Then try to do the DJ attached.
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TKAM Ch 12--16 Evidence Collector
Complete the evidence collector. The (red --) indicates where you need to explain why this quote is labeled conformity, bias or fear.
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TKAM Ch 16 Work
Read chapter 16 using the audio attached if you like. Complete the DJ attached and then copy it to your Chapter assignments slides.
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TKAM Ch 11 Reading Slides
After reading/listening to chapter 11 in TKAM, fill out the Ch 11 slide on your TKAM Chapter assignments.
Also watch the screencast from Ms. Kitt
Also watch the screencast from Ms. Kitt
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#8 Reflect back on a hurtful name you have been called before. What about this word made you feel uncomfortable, embarrassed or ashamed ? OR Reflect on time where you used a hurtful word to make someone else feel uncomfortable, embarrassed or ashamed.
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TKAM CH 9 Reading Part II
Finish reading the chapter and answer the questions for Chapt 9 in your slides
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TKAM Ch 7 & 8 Slides/Reading
Please complete your work for Ch 7 and 8 here on this assignment. There is a summary for Ch 8 attached. I still recommend that you read the chapter
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How often do you reflect on the historical understanding of this word, not to mention the hatefulness and destruction it has caused throughout our history. Fear, is a big indicator with this word. People throughout history have feared change, and thus do not want to share resources and freedoms that should be provided for all. Now that you have read this excerpt, what are your reactions? What could you do differently? What is your role in protecting society?
After reading through the excerpts as a class from slides 2 and 3, answer the questions above.
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TKAM Ch 6 Reading and Slides
Read Ch 6. Audio is attached. Then watch the movie clip and compare the movie scene to the book scene on slide 13 of your Chapter assignments
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Read Ch 4 TKAM--Audio Attached
Use these questions to help with comprehension and to prepare for the quiz on Thursday.
Chapter 4
What does Scout think of current approaches in education?
What superstitions do the children have in connection with the Radley house?
Why do the children make Boo's story into a game?
What do they do in this game? Do you think the game is an accurate version of what happens in the Radleys' home?
What might be the cause of the laughter from inside the house?
Chapter 4
What does Scout think of current approaches in education?
What superstitions do the children have in connection with the Radley house?
Why do the children make Boo's story into a game?
What do they do in this game? Do you think the game is an accurate version of what happens in the Radleys' home?
What might be the cause of the laughter from inside the house?
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TKAM Ch 4 Reading quiz
You have 10 min to take the quiz and submit the google form.
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TKAM Ch 3 Slide 10
Complete a Reading Journal for slide 10 in your TKAM Chapter Assignments slides. Remember to talk about Empathy. What is Atticus trying to get Scout to understand? and why? How does this message apply to you?
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Ch 1 To Kill a Mockingbird
I've attached the audio reading of Chapter 1. Feel free to listen as you read along. Be prepared for a quiz on Monday on simple plot elements for Chapter 1.
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To Kill a Mockingbird Background
Using the document attached, move through any of the pieces in any order. Watch all the videos attached. View all the slides attached. Review the questions before you watch the videos so you know what to look for and what to listen for. This is due at the end of class today.
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The Wife's Story Annotation/Responses
Either use the attached digital copy of The Wife's Story for digital annotations or attached pictures of the handwritten annotations/responses from class today
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#7 Tell me about a time where you were motivated to change something in your life or take action in your life because you were afraid.
Remember to:
1. rephrase the question
2. write in complete sentences
3. write more than 3 sentences
4. Reference a story or experience from your own life
1. rephrase the question
2. write in complete sentences
3. write more than 3 sentences
4. Reference a story or experience from your own life
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Text#3 Why Every Adult Should Support Students March
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Reflect on the 3 free speech articles. Review the two slides attached about Individual and Group Conformity. Compose a short response where you identify TWO examples from any of the articles where a group or an individual from the articles uses any of the conformity behavior listed on the two slides. Compose your response in a paragraph using complete sentences. Make sure you reference the articles in your response.
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Text#2: California Court Rules High School Player Can ‘Take A Knee,’ But NFL Situation Is Murkier (Adapted)
Read and annotate the article. Make sure you have 3 Making Meaning responses connected to 3 different passages in the text.
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#6 How are social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram destroying individual opinions in favor of Group Think and Conformity? --Think about your own experiences on these platforms. --How have you participated? As an individual or a conformist?
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Text #1 Do Students still have free speech
Read and annotate the text attached
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#5 Define the concept of Free Speech in your own words
Remember: at least 3 complete sentences and examples
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Lead In Revision--CER Bias
Use the attached document to revise the lead in you wrote in your 12AM Summative Bias CER.
1. Copy and paste your original lead in with the quote and citation into the first box.
2. Revise your Lead-in in the second box.
1. Copy and paste your original lead in with the quote and citation into the first box.
2. Revise your Lead-in in the second box.
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12AM CER Summative--Bias
Use the attached screencast to help you write your CER paragraph for 12AM
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Collection 1 Peardeck Slides
Follow the prompts on the pear deck presentation for Collection 1.
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12AM Act 3 Reading/Annotations
Use the attached document to read and annotate Act 3 of 12 Angry Men.
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#4 Using details from your own life, finish answering the question from yesterday regarding In-Group Biases. How strongly do you identify with In-Group Bias? Finish the one you chose yesterday in the Peardeck slides: Explain why it depends on the situation. Explain why you so strongly identify with it? Explain why you don't identify with it. Explain why you are so comfortable with all kinds of people in all kinds of situations.
Requirements for 10 points.
--you write in complete sentences
--you write more than 3 sentences
--you restate the question at the beginning of your response
--you give real life examples that connect to the question.
--you write in complete sentences
--you write more than 3 sentences
--you restate the question at the beginning of your response
--you give real life examples that connect to the question.
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12AM Act 2 Reading/Annotations
copy of act 2 is attached for reading and annotations
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How reliable is eye-witness testimony?
Think about this in any situation. It doesn't have to be a court case. It could be a fight you witness on campus at lunch.
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12AM Act 1
All of Act 1 is attached in this document. As we read, we will stop and annotate the text together and on your own. All annotations and questions will be turned at the end of the reading of Act 1.
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#2 In the beginning of the play, Juror Ten has already revealed his negative bias towards the defendant when he says, "you know how 'they' are." How can anyone get a fair trial if you always have someone like Juror Ten on the jury?
Answer in complete sentences
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12AM Setting Analysis
Use the attached document to analyze the setting at the beginning of the play.
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#1 Explain why you think that 'trial by jury' is the still the best system of justice in the world, OR a system that needs to be changed.
Write a detailed response in complete sentences
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12AM Character Descriptions
Use the attached document to review the characters in the play Twelve Angry Men. Follow the guided directions.
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Getting to Know You
Fill in the boxes with thoughtful responses
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Who Are You? Personal Slide
After we go through the practice slides which are also attached, compose your own paragraph on the slide, using the words and phrases from the Getting to Know You Document.
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.net account info
I need everyone's .net account information. Please click on the attached google form and fill it in.
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Syllabus Quiz
Please use the attached google form to quiz yourself on the information in our course syllabus.