Unit 4 test is due! You will be allowed to retake, but you need to start taking the test NOW and even if you have to take it 20 times, keep practicing and retaking.  Ask for help, you’ll get there!

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This is worth points, see you every Tuesday!

Well… we’ve all had a semester to get use to online learning.  I bet like myself you’ve learned a lot.

One thing I hope you learned is that learning on your own time is not “do the work whenever you feel like it.”  Let’s be honest, then you don’t do it and you get way behind and it feels like you have to climb a mountain to catch up.  On your own time means you don’t have class at 8am, you could do it at 9pm.  Regardless, you should be spending an hour to an hour and 45 minutes on math a day.

I have never heard anyone say online learning is easier, it is ALWAYS more work!  The trade off is that you have more control of your life and can schedule your life with more flexibility.  The time you save each day is traveling to and from school and let’s be honest there are lots of things like passing time, collecting homework, taking attendance, etc…. that take up a good chunk of the school day and you aren’t actually learning things during that time.

So online learning takes MORE WORK, but you should save some time in travel and reducing the amount of “administration” that goes on at a school… minutes where you are not learning things but still have to be at school.

So how much time should you be spending on online school everyday?  If you are only spending a couple of hours… you are expecting to fail.  How much time do you spend in a traditional school.  8am  – 2:40 is six and a half hours of school time PLUS HOMEWORK! How much time should a student be spending on homework each day? 6 classes…. 2-3 hours is probably pretty accurate.  So 6 + 3 = 9 hours a day.

If you fail to plan… you plan to fail!

You are not going to be successful without having “work hours.” You need to treat school like a full time job!  When are you going to do your up to 9 hours of work a day?  Don’t watch TV, find a place that is free of distractions, have paper and pencil, notebooks, binder, etc…. YOU NEED TO BE ORGANIZED!!!!! All successful people keep an organizer/calendar.  It is not good enough to put down “work on math.”  You need to extensively plan out your day everyday!  When do you eat breakfast? when do you take a break? For how long? When are you going to do Algebra lesson 4.09  and when are you going to do your 5-03 history assignment?

Keep a binder! Print out your assignments, keep your notes and work organized.  What if I were to go to your house and get all of your school stuff and put it on the desk of the manager where you are trying to get a job.  What does your organization say about you?  Does it say you are reliable? Does it say you have a plan? Does it say this is a guy I want working for me?

How to be successful in math

• At the beginning of each week PRINT OUT THE MOODLE PAGE

• HOLE PUNCH this and put it in your binder.

• As you complete a lesson or activity, CROSS IT OFF! Mentally this helps you to realize you are making progress.
• At the beginning of the week mark down ALL THE LESSONS AND ASSIGNMENTS into your planner/calendar so you don’t miss your due dates.
• Try try try try!!!! Some of my face to face kids had to retake their tests 23 times… some only took the test once.  It varies person to person and unit to unit. SO DO NOT GIVE UP!  So what if you have to take a test/homework assignment 50 times, it is about learning something.
• Ask for help, post questions, try try try!
• Keep a SPIRAL NOTEBOOK with all of your notes and work neatly organized!  Put a TITLE and DATE on EACH page!
• NO CHICKEN SCRATCH!
• I can’t help you if I can not see what you are doing, so on a regular basis take a picture of a couple of your problems and turn that in along with your assignments.
• If possible go to target and get the livescribe pulse pen (www.livescribe.com).  It is a little pricey but I promise it will make doing your math homework easier.  You can do your work on the notebook and it very easily uploads to the internet and you get a link that you can turn in so I can see your work.  Then I can help you and you have evidence to turn in which gives you more points!
• DO NOT MISS YOUR DUE DATES! Be ready to turn in SOMETHING for 4.09 on Monday 1/25.
• Lessons are worth 10 points, do them! Make sure you click the “end lesson” button on the table of contents. They are effort only, so take notes and keep on top of that!
• Instant message and chat with the teacher regularly!
• DO NOT GIVE UP!  You are here to learn, so if you have to do a homework assignment over and over until you get the score you want, so be it!

Ask for help if you need it!

I THINK if you go to www.quia.com/studentZone and click on the class where cos algebra teacher is the teacher you can look up your finals results.  Although you should have been able to see them when you submitted your final.  I did go through them though and already awarded some points for typos and obvious errors.  I left some feedback for some people, I’m trying to get a once through first though.

I notice many of you have some questions were you were not far off and it was obvious you knew what you were doing, so I’m excited to get the papers with your work on them, this may increase or decrease your grade.  I did say that your work would be part of your grade.  So hopefully you showed me that you know something

Thanks everyone!

Mrs. Keeler

If you pass the unit 1, 2 and 3 test and the final I guarantee you will NOT FAIL!  Now if you want to have a better than not failing grade try to make up as much work as you can.

THE FINAL IS 40% of your grade so if you do good on the final you can pull it off, even if you’ve been a giant slacker.

Also… learn your lesson.  Don’t slack off 2nd semester.

You will need to make sure you attend the leadership conference on the 19th. You will take your final that day IN PERSON!

This is 40% of your grade

You will need to SHOW WORK! on every question!!!
There is extra credit to practice for the final, make sure you do it a lot of times!

I moved the blog to www.alicekeeler.net.  Click here to check it out!

At least for now I’m going to see if using schoolloop would be better.  I’d love your opinions.

www.alicekeeler.net

Good Luck! You need to earn 70%.

This should be completed by the end of the week (12/18).
We need to start unit 4 and finish it up ASAP.  Theoretically we need to be finished with Unit 5 by the end of the semester since Unit 5 is on the final.  I’ll e working extra hard to get units 4 and 5 over vacation. While there won’t be any daily activities over vacation, use this opportunity to make sure you’ve passed Unit 1, 2, and 3 test and are all caught up and get started on Unit 4.