1. Welcome!
9.6.18
Mrs. McCarville

2. First Things First Two homework items How do you turn in work?
Check to make sure your name is on it!!!!
Turn in in to your period’s box
What if you were absent the day it was due?
Write ‘absent’ at the top so I know it’s not late
Put it in the turn-in box

3. Procedures When you enter the room:
Find your seat
Get your writing stick out
Raise your hand to ask/answer a question*
Push your chairs in!
Extra supplies
Absent box

4. Procedures No-Names Bathroom breaks When leaving the room: Whiteboard
sign out in the binder
sign back in when you return
Whiteboard

5. Emergency Procedures Evacuation Route
Meet your 2nd period teacher at their designated spot on the football field
Blinds
Lock the door
Emergency phone

6. About Me Curtis High School University Place, WA
Captain of the girls swim team
B.A. in Comm & History from UW
Worked for the American Cancer Society for 4 years
I have 1 daughter, Sloane, she’s 16 months old
HUGE Husky football fan

7. Classroom Rules

9. Don’t lean back in your chairs They can, and have, broken

10. If you don’t understand, ask for help.

11. I am happy to talk about grades with you BEFORE or AFTER school.

12. If you break a rule, accept the consequences.

14. we’re all in this together.
Offer to help others,
we’re all in this together.

15. Treat others as you would wish to be treated if you were them.
My #1 Rule
Treat others as you would wish to be treated if you were them.

16. Thinking Like a Historian
Analyzing Sources

17. Today’s Question
How do you know if a source is reliable?

18. Stanford Study Finds Most Students Vulnerable To Fake News
A group of researchers at Stanford University made quite a stir recently when their study revealed how susceptible young people are to fake news.
Q: Why do you think this story made headlines?

20. What Do You Think?
Professor Wineburg says 1 mistake schools make is to block certain websites at school:
“In many schools there are internet filters that direct students to previously vetted sites and reliable sources of information. But what happens when they leave school and they take out their phone and they look at their Twitter feed? How do they become prepared to make the choices about what to believe, what to forward, what to post to their friends when they’ve given no practice in doing those kinds of things in school?”

21. Fake News: How a Partying Macedonian Teen Earns Thousands Publishing Lies
Dimitri looks out over the Macedonian town of Veles
Alexander Smith / NBC News