After two weeks of CSAP, computer class will hopefully return to normal beginning Friday, April 1st. And on Monday, back to a database assignment on a daily basis: Monday is 1996 Colorado Avalanche (1st Stanley Cup Championship), Tuesday, Mountains of the World, Wednesday, 1993 Colorado Rockies team, and Inventors of the World.
This newsletter can also be only be read at: <http://www.kuzmich.com/parent_newsletters.html>.
1st Period: 84.4% = B
3rd Period: 88.9% = A-
5th Period: 89.6% = A-
6th Period: 87.9% = B+
With unlimited makeup available to April 15th, let's start making up missing work before it becomes difficult to makeup huge amounts of assignments and tests.
Important note: if you see your child losing points for class participation and yet they are not absent from school, they probably are losing the points via chewing gum in class on a regular basis! The first rule for my class is: respect for the equipment. Don't chew gum in school because it is also a school rule.
For more insight about this curriculum, please go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/spreadsheet_syllabus.html and electronic spreadsheets will being the second week of April for about 1.5 weeks. Here is what follows next in the sequence of upcoming instruction.
Internet Search Engines: 1 week
PowerPoint Multimedia Slideshow Presentations: 2 to 4 days
Newsletters and Web Pages, 3 to 5 days.
Drawing and Painting: 1 week
Computer Music: 4 days.
Designing Computer Games with Animations & Sound Effects:
Individual Unit Final Projects! (nine of them)
Final Two Weeks Syllabus: Creativity With Graphics! Choose various projects
with Microsoft Publisher, Band In-A-Box, Clarisworks, and Klik & Play.
Parts I & II: (You volunteered for it!): <http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/modifications.html>.
Part I: A disruptive student is defined as one who inhibits the classroom instruction. If after one reminder and a discussion with Dr. Data, your behavior in class today has not improved, you will complete a "Think Sheet." You will also be assigned to after school “Mop Squad” detention.
Part II: If you continue to be disruptive, you will complete the following alternative class assignment consisting of three paragraphs all with topic sentences and correct spelling and grammar. You are to read the enclosed computer article. Then you will write three paragraphs with paper and pencil. If not done neatly, you will do it again. If necessary, you will be asked to go to classroom to do this assignment in which the teacher of that classroom will monitor your behavior.
Paragraph one: you are to write ten sentences summarizing the contents of the article all within the first paragraph.
Second paragraph: you will write three or more sentences about the three most important ideas that you learned from the article.
Third paragraph: who would you recommend this article to? Teacher, Parent, Business person, student, etc.? Give two reasons why?
You are expected to complete parts I and II and understand why class disturbances are not to be tolerated and hopefully the alternative class activity of computer technology reading and writing helps you understand more about computers. If you do not finish this assignment within the present class period, it will be done for homework. A parent signature is required for both parts I and II. Because your classroom behavior is not conducive for instruction, you need to focus your efforts on this alternative assignment. In addition to this assignment, you are still expected to complete the daily assignment that was given in class today.
Or you can even mail the web conference form to:
Carmody Middle School
c/o Dr. Data
20500 S. Kipling Street
Lakewood, CO 80227
Or complete the CGI form on-line and submit and it will be e-mailed directly to me, automatically at: <http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/web_conference_form4.html>, To me, this is the most painless way to go about this matter.
Hope of this information is helpful.
Till next time,
Dr. Data
7th Grade Computer Class Teacher