Hello Students! First of all, I want to apologize for not further updating this site! I realized that I said I would give you instructions about the Internal Assessment and I did not.
We will be meeting back in the classroom this Thursday 9/2/21 since all my 3-4 classes are on B days. It will be great to see those of you that I taught last year and to meet the students who had Ms. Lisensky. About a month ago, I was assuming that this school year would be pretty normal, but with the recent surge of the Delta variant, we will just have to see. I am hopeful that it won't make many inroads into our school since most of us are vaccinated and we are good at wearing masks. But if there is one thing COVID has taught us, it is that we can't get too comfortable with how we think it behaves. I'm all about getting back to some normalcy and learning this fantastic biology curriculum in-person, but the safety of all of us and our families needs to be front and center as well. I will do my best to communicate with you and keep teaching biology regardless of what happens, and hopefully we will be mostly in-person.
Many of you may be wondering about the summer work. I will have you submit it through Canvas once I get that site going, but I will spread that out over the first 2 months. I would like you to do your first science article and submit it by Friday, 9/10. That way I can give you some feedback before you do the second one. I will have you submit the review in pieces so that it doesn't all have to be done at once. Finally, I will talk to you a little about the Internal Assessment in the first 2 weeks of class, but I will give you the "official" information about it in early October. I'm sorry if you have been stressing about this work all summer and now you see that you have more time. But if you already did it all, that is fantastic because you can put your energy towards other assignments and tasks.
Tomorrow I plan to work a lot on my Canvas pages and possibly even get yours published. It will probably have a message like this one and some of the early documents that we will be using. If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email at mkenny@pps.net.
I am so excited to get this year started and meet all of you!
