Parent Corner

Please note my office hours! If it is not an emergency and outside my office hours, rather than calling or texting, especially if later in the evening, send an email and I will give it my attention first thing back in office hours.

Phone: 843-633-2690

If you do not reach me immediately by phone, please leave a detailed voicemail with your name, course name, and phone number. I will return all voicemails within 24 working hours.  

Email: jfloyd@ed.sc.gov

Email me anytime and I will respond as soon as I can within my next office hours. Please remember to include your child's course name in all messages. I will be using Genius messaging on a regular basis to send you updates and announcements as well. 

Remind

Join my Remind group along with your child. This is a great way to get updates and reminders as well as being able to text me with questions.  

The best times to reach me is during my office hours!

MO 8am-2:30pm

TU 8am-2:30pm; 6pm-9pm

WD 8am-2:30pm; 7pm-9pm

TH 8am-2:30pm

FR 8am-2:30pm

**Note: I do hold live sessions Tuesday evenings and may not be able to respond immediately, but will contact you as soon as possible.

Please note my office hours! If it is not an emergency and outside my office hours, rather than calling or texting, especially if later in the evening, send an email and I will give it my attention first thing back in office hours.

Phone: 803-392-3511 

If you do not reach me immediately by phone, please leave a detailed voicemail with your name, course name, and phone number. I will return all voicemails within 24 working hours.  

Email: jbondor@ed.sc.gov

Email me anytime and I will respond as soon as I can within my next office hours. Please remember to include your child's course name in all messages. I will be using Genius messaging on a regular basis to send you updates and announcements as well. 

Remind

Join my Remind group along with your child. This is a great way to get updates and reminders as well as being able to text me with questions.  

The best times to reach me is during my office hours!

MO 8am-3pm, 6pm-9pm 

TU 8am-3pm, 6:30pm-9pm

WED 8am-3pm

TH 10am-4pm 

FR 10am-3pm   

**Note: I do hold live sessions Monday evenings and may not be able to respond immediately, but will contact you as soon as possible.

This course has one introductory unit (2 lessons), followed by four full units (4 lessons each).

• In the introductory unit students will learn all about sounds, pronunciation, cognates, courtesy and greetings, and how to briefly introduce themselves.

• In Unit 1 students will keep developing introducing themselves as well as others. They will learn how to describe themselves and others (physically and personality), as well as work with the verbs "to have" (haben) and "to be" (sein). Lastly, they will learn how to express basic free-time interests using the verbs: to play, to do/make, and to go.

• In Unit 2 students will learn how to talk about family; describing their family and individuals in their family. They will also learn how to express likes and dislikes, as well as favorites. 

• In Unit 3 students will learn all about school life; the German school system, how to get to school, places around school, school supplies, subjects, how to tell time and how to use the Accusative Case (Direct Object Case). 

• In Unit 4 students will learn how to describe the weather in the various seasons and telling temperature using Celsius. Students will also learn how to describe their free-time interests beyond the basics. They will be introduced to irregular verbs. Lastly, they will learn how to describe chores they may have to complete at home, using the modal verb "must" (I must make my bed.)

This course has one introductory unit (2 lessons), followed by four full units (4 lessons each).

• In the introductory unit students will review skills learned in level 1. That includes: Describing myself an others, talking about family, and free-time interests (regular and irregular verbs)

• In Unit 2 studnets will learn all about clothing, what to wear the different times of year, going shopping for clothing and having conversations in a mall, with a focus on the Accusative Case and Accusative adjective endings. 

• In Unit 2 students will learn about places around town, what one can do while in town or traveling to a new town, and expressing themselves in the past tense. 

• In Unit 3 students will learn all healthy living, healthy food choices, making healthy choices, going to the doctor to discuss ailments and giving advice. 

• In Unit 4 students will learn about the different holidays throughout the year and how to express gift giving by applying the Dative Case. 

This course has one introductory unit (2 lessons), followed by three full units (4 lessons each).

• In the introductory unit students will review topics learning in German 1 & 2 with a review of the past tense. 

• In Unit 1 students will learn all about dining out, traditional dishes, ordering in a restaurant with a grammatical focus of two-way prepositions and verbs.

• In Unit 2 students will learn about traveling abroad, setting up a trip, train travel, describing a new area, applying the Genitive Case as well as adjective endings.

• In Unit 3 students will discuss their future hopes and dreams, what qualities they would look for in a job, participating in an interview, creating their own resume, and discussing their future plans. 

• This is not a self paced course. Your child will have weekly due dates and should be logging into the course & make progress daily.

• Due dates have been shared with you in the pacing guide. It shows which assignments are due when.

• Your child is absolutely free to work ahead, falling behind, however should be avoided and can hurt your child's overall success in the course.

• This is a linear course, assignments must be completed in order from start to finish. 

• This course is not truly flexible and it is not a self paced course. 

• Your child will have weekly due dates and should be logging into the course & make progress daily.

• Due dates have been shared with you in the pacing guide. It shows which assignments are due when.

• Your child is absolutely free to work ahead, falling behind, however should be avoided and can hurt your child's overall success in the course.

• This is a linear course, assignments must be completed in order from start to finish. No skipping around! The course is locked own and the next activity opens up only after the before is successfully completed.

A pacing guide is a schedule of all due dates. At the beginning of the course your child will have due dates Wednesday and Sunday, and as we progress through the course and slow down some, due dates will always fall on Sunday. All work is due midnight on Sunday. 

We do not follow the traditional school schedule, so your child will have due dates even on holidays and/or breaks. 

Here are some tips for success your child should follow:

• Your child should submit work by the due dates listed on the pacing guide (pacing guides are linked under each level and can also be found in the course under Course Overview & Introduction).

• Your child should expect to spend 1-2 hours each day in the course in order to keep up with the pacing guide.

• Your child can work ahead, however, he/she should not fall behind. 

• Please note: Not logging in and making progress can result in your child being dropped from the course. 

Live sessions are highly recommended in many of VirtualSC’s World Languages courses. These sessions provide your child with an opportunity to practice material covered and develop proficiency in speaking the language, which is an integral part of second language acquisition.

If your child should have to miss an instructional live session he/she should be viewing the recording of the session to still benefit from what was reviewed and practiced.

Your child should be using the pacing guide and live sessions schedule to plan ahead! All due dates and live sessions are listed! Your child can always work ahead and complete assignments early.  Definitely ALWAYS COMMUNICATE! PLAN AHEAD! Contact me ahead of time, if you know there is a conflict. If something comes up and it is an extenuating circumstance you must contact me and we will go from there.

Attendance Violation

• Inactivity in the Course for 14+ days

• https://virtualsc.org/attendance-policy/ 

Academic Integrity

• Using Outside Sources

• Copying from another student

• Plagiarizing 

• After two violations, your child will be removed from the course

• https://virtualsc.org/academic-integrity-policy/ 

Code of Conduct Violations 

• https://virtualsc.org/student-code-of-conduct/ 

• Only one reinstatement will be allowed per course per term.

• Students who have been withdrawn for any reason, except withdrawals due to Academic Integrity or Code of Conduct Violations, can be reinstated within 7 calendar days of the withdrawal date with a request for reinstatement from their sponsoring School Counselor along with a submitted Course Reinstatement Plan (follow link below to access the template). The request, along with the Reinstatement Plan should be emailed to both the teacher and the Student Services Team at virtualsc@ed.sc.gov. Note: A Reinstatement Plan submitted for a summer course may be submitted with only a student and parent signature.

• The initial day of withdrawal will start the seven-day timeline for request submission. In other words, the withdrawal date is day 1 of the 7 calendar days. After 7 calendar days from the date of the withdrawal, the student will no longer be reinstated into a course for any reason and will need to re-enroll in the course in a future enrollment period. Students are allowed one reinstatement per course per term.

• Students submitting a reinstatement plan that requires revision must submit the revised reinstatement plan, per the teacher's feedback and instruction, within 48 hours. Revised plans submitted beyond the 48 hour deadline will not be considered for reinstatement.

• Students withdrawn from more than one course for inactivity must submit one reinstatement plan per course.

• Students who have been withdrawn by their sponsoring School Counselor may request reinstatement into a course by contacting their School Counselor directly, who will ask for the reinstatement on behalf of the student. School Counselors may request to have a student reinstated into any course within 7 calendar days of the student's withdrawal from the course. After 7 calendar days the student will no longer be reinstated into a course and will need to re-enroll in a future enrollment period.

• Reinstatement will not be permitted within three weeks of the final exam, with the exception of yearlong (Sept-May) courses that will discontinue reinstatement eligibility in mid-January.

• For more detail, please review the procedures here: https://virtualsc.org/reinstatement/ 

All VirtualSC initial credit courses require a proctored final exam. VirtualSC final exams will be given during the times scheduled according to the Dates & Deadlines guide for each enrollment session. Students requesting to take a final exam early must meet the following requirements:

• Must have a grade of 80% or higher in the course.

• Cannot have any zeros on any assignments in the course.

• Must have approval from the course's teacher.

Public school and private school students will be proctored as arranged by their sponsor school. Proctors must be a South Carolina certified teacher, media specialist, school counselor or administrator. The date, time and location for the final exam will be selected by the sponsor school and will (unless you are notified otherwise) correspond to the exam dates listed in the Dates & Deadlines guide. Alternative exam arrangements must be approved by the sponsor school (different time, location, proctor, etc.). Students may find information regarding final exam arrangements for their school by accessing the Final Exam Instructions page. Please note that this information is self-reported by each school and the most accurate source of information regarding final exam dates/time/locations is the student's sponsoring school. Students should contact their sponsor schools upon enrollment in the case that there any concerns about the scheduled exam dates. 

Home school students or their parent/guardians are responsible for securing an appropriate proctor to facilitate the final exam. Exam proctors must hold a South Carolina Educator Certificate, and cannot be related to the student taking the exam. To receive approval for an exam proctor, please submit the Proctor Verification Form to VirtualSC. Upon approval, VirtualSC will contact the proctor with final exam instructions. Alternatively, a home school student or their parent/guardian may contact a local public or private school to request a seat during their proctored exams. If a school is willing to accommodate the request, the student will take their final exam on the date and time provided by the school.

Students experiencing difficulty in arranging for their final exams may discuss ProctorU (an online live proctoring service) as a testing option with their counselor or sponsor school. ProctorU is a private company and charges a fee for their services. Students utilizing this resource should notify their school prior to booking the date online.

https://virtualsc.org/finalexampolicy/ 

This is a performance based course.  Only work, where your child has showcased what he/she has learned count towards the final grade. That includes tasks (interpersonal, interpretive, presentational), culture forums, quizzes, projects & finals.  The overall coursework is weighted by unit, with all units equally weighted for a total of 80%.  The final projects are 10% while the proctored final exam is the remaining 10%.

80% course work (culture forums, quizzes and tasks - no practice/lessons)

10% final project

10% final exam