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hello there I am is tomorrow I am going to share my screen here with you guys here just so we can see what it is we're going to be doing this year in my classroom go to this slide presentation I mean reduce Myself by a mister Murrell I will be your kids American history teacher this year little bit of my mission statement of my interest statement here my name is David Morrell and I'm your child's American history teacher I'm honored to be their teacher and love teaching American history to junior high students I believe I have the greatest job in the world and it pains me not to have your kids in my room as full-time we will make the best of the situation and I will do my part to make this experience as positive and interesting as possible please know that I'm here for your kids and for their success I will be fair but will also hold this dude's accountable for I work in behavior in class I'm passionate at what I do and I hope to get your kids excited about American history I look forward to working with you all this year so I just wanted to throw that out there real quick I also want to share a little bit about play so this is my family here my wife's name is Claire I have daughters Kennedy and Madison kind of appropriate I think for an American history teacher and then we have a dog Golden Retriever named Liberty I've lived in Brea by whole life and it's kind of nice to get back to this community which is giving me so much connection here are my classroom expectations what I expect from the students really isn't anything too surprising I do expect them to log into Zoo time the class schedule has been posted on Google Classroom it's got the Wednesday schedule on there also so please make sure they know that Wednesday's a different time please be paired with all the materials and that could be textbook Builders paper we do some note taking up most of my assignments obviously are on Google classroom but there will be some on some things that they'll need to do on regular paper to please have them come in on mute and have the video on it's important that the camera is on them and not on the ceiling or their foreheads I don't want any phones or video game playing during this time all assigned work should be submitted on time on Google Classroom all the time it supposed to be the time and the date that everything to do so please let's work on getting it in when it is due and I need them to raise their hand before the unmute otherwise we're going to have people talking over each other and it kind of gets confusing show respect call students in materials in the class my next one is the curriculum and ongoing assignments here's a timeline of the units that we will study this semester we are actually started already with the French and Indian War lead in to events leading to the American Revolution so we have recently been talking about George Washington a young George Washington in the wilderness Ohio River Valley which starts the French and Indian War after we do the events leading to the revolution when we talking about the Articles of Confederation our first form of government did the last long wasn't very effective which is why the Constitutional Convention happened in 1787 and we will didn't your Constitution and three branches of government from there we talked about The Early Republic the first five presidents starting with Washington obviously we also Hamilton in there cuz it was so important to the foundation of this nation after that unit we will go to manifest destiny Andrew Jackson the movement West in the treatment of the Native Americans I have posted ongoing assignments on Google classroom for all. And they've already been working on all of them appears one two and three actually all. I have every other Friday they have What's called the feel-good assignment that's due looking for positive things in the world stories that are unheard we want to start hearing we have them doing that every other week for periods 1 2 and 3 the opposite Fridays they are doing what's called the president slides they will have every other Friday 5 new presidents do the assignments on Google Classroom Selena that is the periods for 5 and 60 Owners Group are working on an ongoing president project more detailed project that they are working on so those are ongoing so please keep an eye out for those greeting a commune Haitian all assignments and information are posted on Google Classroom off of the students the best way to communicate with me is through email the moral at bousd. Us are all parents and students have access the Ares of the portal so check those grades and I try to get the grades in as soon as possible so within a day or two those assignments should be in there so just look for those and then I wanted to finish off they just with a positive quote every accomplishment starts with the decision to try I do expect my students to come to school every day and work I want them to try to be their very best and everything that they that they do I want them to give it their all if they are giving it their all and sometimes they come up short that is the mark inside of someone with a great work ethic and integrity and I love to see those types of things and work is rewarded so I'm hoping they do well again if you need anything please feel free to email me I will get back to you soon as possible I consider myself a fair individual and open-minded individual and we just need to make sure that we have a positive line of communication so we can help you can succeed in here okay I just wanted to thank you very much for that the stop sharing will go back here I think that is all the GIF you have any questions please feel to reach out to me and thank you very much have a good evening I will be posting this sorry on my web page and I will be emailing you all of this so you can see it on your email to thank you

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