Monday, March 30, 2020

KCC -- MONDAY 3/30


Image may contain: 1 person, possible text that says 'soul nate @MNateShyamalan "i can't go because of coronavirus" whiny boring weak "i've sworn an oath of solitude til the blight is purged from these lands" heroic, valiant they will assume you have a sword impossible to check if you really have a sword because of coronavirus 10:13 AM Mar 17, 2020 Twitter for Phone 17.9K Retweets 52.7K Likes'I'm setting aside what I'd originally planned for today, because this idea is too important not to give priority; I'm stealing it from a post that Sylvia Curry shared on Facebook.  About 50-60 years from now your grandchildren will call you up (or teleport?) or maybe they'll be incredible and stop in for a visit and bring you a latte or vanilla Coke or some new magical water...anywho, and they'll want to ask you about the pandemic of 2020 that you endured as a teenager.  They'll want to record you talking about it or take notes for a school project.  Even just 20-30 years from now your own kids will ask you what it was like.  YOU will be a primary source; you can give a first-person account of history from your individual perspective.  Granted, a primary source is exactly that -- one perspective, and so, it doesn't tell the whole story.  It does, however, tell a piece of the story, and that has a valuable place in the larger narrative!  To that end, I've set up a journal entry assignment in Google Classroom, and today I want you to get started by remembering back to Tuesday, 3/17, when you were on your first day at home due to the school shut-down in Illinois, and record what you can remember from that first week and then the second week ("spring break").  After that it will be easy to do a quick end-of-day recap each day moving forward.  So, tomorrow there will be a new assignment posted here relating to Global Issues at the turn of the 20th century to go along with just a 1-day (3/31) journal entry.  Please note that your old Turn of the Century CQ Research (due way back before we began sheltering-in-place) has been scored with feedback and also entered into Power School.