Your work for the Correspondence class(es) will be completed multiple ways.
First, we use the web platform Edgenuity for our class lecture videos. These videos are also accompanied by short assignments.
For examples of the types of work you will have on Edgenuity, follow the link below.
There will also be reading assignments and projects that are completed separately from Edgenuity. The materials for those assignments will be located in a Google shared folder and submited through email. There may also be other useful resources to help you with those assignments, such as instructional videos explaining how to complete the assignment, posted on our class website. For some of those assignments, I may also work with you by providing online instruction through Zoom or may even be at your school to work with you in class. There will be more instruction on those assignments when we get to them.
There will also be work, usually practice exam questions, that will be assigned and completed through the National College Board website. In a few days I will go over how to create an account with the National College Board so make sure you create an account (if you do not already have one) when you are instructed to do so.
What is most important when it comes to an online correspondence class is YOU DO NOT WANT TO WASTE YOUR TIME!
When you get to class each day, you will want to take just 5-minutes and check the Google Classroom and your school email for any announcements. Since this is a correspondence course, most of our communication will be done through the Google Classroom and Email.
Once you have checked your messages, you want to begin your work. You may complete your Edgenuity work or any other assignments such as your reading assignments or projects during class. I usually upload your Edgenuity work one entire unit at a time and not on a daily or weekly basis. You will also usually be given a syllabus at the beginning of each unit of study that will list your options for reading assignments and projects for that unit.
Since I post your work a unit at a time, that means you will usually have at least a few days in order to complete the assignments. Even though you may have a few days to complete your work, in order to complete all of your work, and to keep pace with the work load, you will need to do homework. For more information on how the pacing will work on Edgenuity click on the link below.
Reading is probably the most difficult part of the class. Not because it is hard, but because most people do not like to read. For some of these assignments we will try to work on them together. Others you will complete independently. If you see that you have a reading assignment that requires you to read a chapter of a book that may be 10-15-20 or more pages long, I suggest that you do not try to do all of the reading in one night. Since you will not be given that amount of reading to complete in one night, don't try to do it in one night. It is probably a better idea to take 2-3 nights (or more if needed) to read a section or chapter. Since you may want to spread your work out, it will be very important for you to look at the assignments ahead of time so you can see what is required, how long it is, and then estimate how much time it will take you. If you wait until the last few days of a unit of study, then you may have no other choice but to try and do all of your reading in one night.
The teacher that is there with you at your school is simply there to take attendance, and to monitor you while you are in class. All of your questions should be directed to me.
You can do this by simply emailing me. My school email is
On Edgenuity, when you have a video presentation to watch, you have to watch the whole thing. There is no way to fast-forward through the videos the first time through it. If after watching a video in its entirety you need to go back to rewatch something then you are able to skip through the video to find what you are looking for.
The video presentations are often accompanied with multiple choice questions and short answer questions (follow this link for examples: Examples of Work).
When you submit any written work, those assignments will be sent back to you ungraded if it needs to be revised. If it needs revisions, I will include comments & directions about what your assignment is missing and needs to be corrected in order to help you.
For most assignments you have to earn an 80 or better in order to not have to make revisions. If you do not earn an 80 the assignment will be sent back to you to revise. I will put comments with the assignment so make sure you read those. You do not lose any points or credit when work is sent back for revisions. When I ask for revisions, I am not doing this to penalize you. I am doing it so you can improve the quality of work you produce since written answers to things like reading questions, require more detail and explanation than in a traditional class.
Even if you receive an 80 or higher you will still want to read the comments (if any have been posted). These comments will tell you what you may have gotten wrong ie: points off for, and may make suggestions so you can do better on future assignments. I may also explain what the answer should have been so you can compare it to your answer so you can again see what I was looking for in your work.
I usually grade and return all work within 24 hours with the exception of weekends and days off from school. If you do not receive any kind of confirmation from me stating that I received your work, and if you do not see any grade posted, let me know. That will mean I did not receive your work.
If I return an assignment submitted though Edgenuity and ask you for revisions, when you log back into Edgenuity you will be automatically taken back to that assignment for completion. This sometimes confuses students because they think it means their assignment was somehow not submitted. I received it. You just need to make corrections, which again means you need to check the comments. The same thing can be true if there are any assignments submitted through the Google Classroom.
If I send an assignment back to you for revisions and you resubmit the assignment without making corrections, then I will grade what you have submitted and you are likely to not do well on that assignment. If after seeing a low grade you then decide you want to revise your work, you may.
Every year I will have students who will want to try and find a shortcut and therefore they will just try and Google a question and copy and paste whatever comes up. This is called PLAGIARISM. You cannot plagiarize other people's work from the internet. I have found that what is often copied and pasted usually doesn't even answer the question being asked and so your work is returned to you asking for revisions. Also, anything you can find on the internet, I can also find, so I will know if it is copied. If I give you a zero for plagiarism, I may not allow you to redo those assignments so consider this your WARNING.
If after reading all of this information you have any questions, please feel free to ask. My email address can be found up above.