1. Students were given a reading package that contained two short stories and three poems. I had explained to them last week that I would give them the readings in advance so they could become comfortable with the stories / poems and not spend test time reading. They will have choice between which of the short stories they want to answer questions on and the same with the two shorter poetry selections. There is one longer poem that I will ask everyone some questions on.Students are allowed to highlight things on their copy of the readings. They can bring it in with them for the final as long as they do not have other exam notes written on the pages, such as definitions of figurative language or some of them already identified on their poems. (This way, I can trust that the student themselves can identify and find these examples and answers instead of being shown by another student while studying.If they forget to bring their copy of the readings, or have comments written on the pages that are too specific, then I will provide them with another copy clear of comments.
2. We also spent a few minutes going through, once again, the four requirements for each blog entry.  (We used Megan’s blog as an example.) I used a screen recorder program to video tape myself going through the steps of embedding the video or links and comments. This will be available to watch in case you forget how to do these things.I tried to make it clear that we had more computer time booked for tomorrow’s class, but with the weather causing complications for Mr. Johnson’s field trip last week, that’s taken away our class for tomorrow. The computer lab can be made available to students at lunch today and will be available all day tomorrow, for those not going on the trip. I’ve also extended the deadline for the blogs and photo essay to be Monday by the end of the day, so students have that extra time to complete their work over the weekend and even the day of the exam, once they’ve finished writing. I’ve made every effort possible to give you options and make accomodations.

Here is the screen recording and step-by-step guide for embedding the links, etc.