IMPORTANT NEWS AND NOTES
This page is meant to give parents a review of topics covered in class. General overviews will be mentioned, which can be complimented by information from your children. I hope you find this information useful.
We are starting the 2024/2025 School Year with some activities so we can all learn a bit about each other. While students are woking on this project they will be learning some necessary skills on Digital Citizenship and media creation.
The weekly class podcast is continuing with CLASS UPDATES, OPTIONAL ENRICHMENT OPPORTUNITIES, and SCHOOL NEWS. I highly encourage parents and students to check out the podcast, which is linked in Schoology, on my blog located at http://mrsal.edublogs.org, and on this website. That will have the most current updates for class.
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.
Traditional Classes
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: 2025/2026
The Summer Reading Assignment has changed a bit this year. Students are still reading Night, by Elie Wiesel, the .pdf version is linked on the Honors Summer Reading page. Students may read a physical copy of the book from the Public Library, a family member, or friend. Listening to the audiobook is also acceptable. The required assignments have changed from essays to projects such as posters, audio files, and videos. The directions are link from the Project Page.
US HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT II: 2025/2026
Information will be posted shortly.
SIDE QUESTS: formerly 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 2025/2026 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.
