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.
We are entering the FOURTH NINE WEEKS! It is important for students to keep up with all assignments since this is a busy NINE WEEKS with STATE TESTING, FIELD TRIPS, SCHOOL ACTIVITIES, and OTHER MISCELLANEOUS EVENTS going on.
The weekly class podcast is continuing with CLASS UPDATES, OPTIONAL ENRICHMENT OPPORTUNITIES, and SCHOOL NEWS.
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.
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 2023/2024 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 using 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.
PA STATE CIVICS ASSESSMENT
Students are required to take a CIVICS ASSESSMENT by the state of Pennsylvania. It is approximatley 20 questions consisiting of BASIC CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT FACTS.
HONORS US HISTORY and GOVERNMENT II: 2023/2024
Students are currently working on reviewing som ebasic civics information. We will jump back into historical curriculum after this review.
US HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT II: 2023/2024
Students are currently working on reviewing som ebasic civics information. We will jump back into historical curriculum after this review.
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 2023/2024 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.
