Take a look at this film footage from a car driving around LA in the late 1940s. For atmosphere, I recommend listening to one of my playlists of top songs from the era while you watch. Lots that looks familiar, but a lot that looks very different from today.
As of right now, the upcoming remaining debates are scheduled as follows:
| Type | Date | Time | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vice Presidential | Oct. 7 | 9 - 10:30 PM Eastern (5 PM Alaska) | Salt Lake City |
| Presidential | Oct. 15 | 9 - 10:30 PM Eastern (5 PM Alaska) | Miami |
| Presidential | Oct. 22 | 9 - 10:30 PM Eastern (5 PM Alaska) | Nashville |
Some additional details are available here: https://abc7chicago.com/debate-schedule-next-vice-presidential/6392654/
Welcome to the 2020-21 school year!
We are starting remote this year. Here are a couple of resources for you:
Log in to your first period Zoom class at 7:40 AM on Monday. We are following the bell schedule. Links to your Zoom classes should be posted on your class homepage in Canvas (that's where mine are).
Best of luck, and let's all do our best to work together to make the strangest school year yet into a success for each and every one of you.
Feel free to email me questions and concerns if you have them.
Good day, students!
We live in some pretty crazy times. While the country tries to figure out the best way to reopen schools safely, one of the main reasons cited for reopening is to keep students from falling "further behind." I want to address this, and I want you to understand something.
You are not behind. You are not somehow doomed for the future because school closures and the pandemic happened this year. Yes, this is massively inconvenient, and some opportunities have changed shape or disappeared (to be replaced later by new ones), but you aren't starting the year behind, no matter what anyone else tells you. You have enough to worry about right now without fearing that you're already at a deficit.
The whole country had to pump the brakes this year. Every school experienced some sort of change and interruption in instruction. While on paper and in testing it may feel like school has moved on and advanced without you, it hasn't. Your teachers will meet you where you are, and we will work together. Not to "catch up" to where you need to be, or to try to cram more than a year of learning into a year, but to help you keep growing.
We as a society have had to realize that we cannot just pretend this doesn't exist and has no effects; whatever your opinions are on the virus or politics or anything else, it has been disruptive to lives, homes, industries, and economies. To pretend that students (or anyone else for that matter) should be at the same point they would have been without the virus is ludicrous.
You are okay exactly where you are, and you will grow this year just as you need to. Keep working with us, we will keep working with you, and you'll be right where you should be. All you need to worry about is making sure you more forward.
Whatever happens this year, let's try to make it a good one.
(read this right before your test)
Good day, AP students:
Hello! It's test time.
What happened this year?!
Keep your head on straight. You took on this challenge because you know that you're made of the right stuff. Or maybe you're not so sure, but someone else knows you're up to it. Everything became very strange this year, but that doesn't mean that you can't make the best effort possible.
Be honest, shut out everything from your mind but the topic of the question(s) you get, and buckle in. Use the resources available to you, tell everyone else in the house to stay off Fortnite so that you have a stable internet connection, and follow your teacher's guidance. We want the best for you and have done the best we could under the circumstances, our own personal circumstances included.
You'll do the best for yours. Those of you that I personally teach are brilliant students with constellations of potential, and no matter what happens on this test, you're going to still have everything you learned this year to help you in the future. You've overcome obstacles, some placed by fate and some placed by others, and even some placed by yourselves. You are some of the hardest working, most intelligent people I know (adults included). It will serve you well. You are here now, and I am proud of you.
Okay, it's time. Log in, get your windows ready, write your AP ID at the top of everything with your initials, take a deep breath, and start thinking AP.
I'll be waiting for you on the other side!
Best,
Mr. E
