IMPORTANT NEWS AND NOTES
This page is meant to give parents a review of topics covered in class each week. General overviews will be mentioned, which can be complimented by information from your children. I hope you find this information useful.
Summer School has started this past week, June 13, 2022, it runs through July 21, 2022.
Honors US II students should have started their summer reading activity, Night by Elie Wiesel. All Honors students received an email with directions to the CLASS WIKI where all materials are hosted for the Summer Reading.
The weekly class podcast will continue over the summer. The podcasts will cover adivce and updates for both Honors Summer Reading and Summer School students.
KEEPING INFORMED
Parents are encouraged to keep abreast of what and how their son/daughter is doing in class. There are several ways for parents keep informed of class activities and student progress.
The official grades for students are posted on CSIU. However, since we will be using Schoology as our online classroom platform assignment grades can also be found there.
I publish a weekly podcast during the school year, it is a weekly review of classroom events. The podcast will continue to be produced over the summer of 2022, just with a bit of a scaled down format.
Emails are another way for parents to keep in touch. My school email is dsalvucci [at] nbasd.org. Traditional phone calls take the longest for me to reply since I cannot return calls until the room is empty.
There is also a calendar located on the class wiki that lists upcoming events and this web site. I also have students using a LIveScribe smartpen to take notes in class. A .pdf copy of all class notes are posted by period on the class wiki.
Traditional Classes
IMPORTANT CHANGES FOR THE 2020/2021 SCHOOL YEAR
Students will be using school distributed Chromebookx, I will help them set up their smartphones or tablets for use outside of class if they request it.
We are moving to Schoology as our online classroom platform. Each class period will again have its own Schoology Group.
Online Textbook links will be listed in the Schoology online classroom, we will be using a mix of online textbooks and primary documents in each course.
HONORS US HISTORY and GOVERNMENT II: 2022/2023
This information will be updated shortly.
US HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT II: 2022/2023
This information will be updated shortly.
ENRICHMENT INFORMATION
Enrichment activity information can now be found on its own page, located here.
PSYCHOLOGY/SOCIOLOGY
I am not teaching this course over the 2022/2023 School Year.
HOUR OF CODE 2017/2018
Hour of Code is a world wide effort to show students what coding entails. I run Hour of Code as an afterschool event during Computer Science Education Week in December. The participating students asked that we continue with Hour of Code throughtout the remainder of the school year, so we are. You can find more information at here HourofCode.org. This is currently on hold due to trouble with scheduling time when enough students could attend.
