My First Day of Eighth Grade
Izzy
8/31/20
Today was my first day of eighth grade. It was definitely a very different experience considering I was wearing sweatpants and stayed inside the entire day. This is because we are continuing online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year is going to be interesting for sure...
This year we have a completely different schedule and only three classes a quarter.
My schedule:
1) English
2) French
3) History
4) PE
5) Accelerated Math
6) Science
So for the first and third quarters I will only have English, French, and History. Then for the second and fourth quarter I'll have PE, Math, and Science. I think that only having three classes will make it easier to balance all of my work.
Today I woke up at 8 and had a very chill morning. I had breakfast and put on sweats and my swim team sweatshirt after I showered. I had my first zoom call with my English teacher at 9:45 which lasted about an hour. The school actually gave us all chrome books so I used mine but the camera was broken. We went over the assignments for this week and my teacher introduced himself. After the call I called one of my friends and we worked on an assignment together, called the Welcome Week Portfolio. It's a bunch of slides where you watch videos and answer questions about digital learning and some other stuff to get you started for the school year. To be honest I don't think it's the most useful thing to be doing and it's pretty long. It took me a little while to figure it out because my teacher didn't go over it in depth. I did some of the slides assigned for today, but got very overwhelmed from the amount of work. I ended up lying on my bed and falling asleep for a little bit.
9/1/20
Today was the second day of school. I woke up at the same time and got ready. Today I had my zoom call for second period, French. It was a pretty easy morning and I worked with my friend Adelin over Facetime. I had much more work to do today to catch up from yesterday but I managed. I needed to let myself take a break yesterday so I didn't finish all of the slides in the portfolio for Monday and had to catch up. Today I felt less stressed and I think getting to talk to my friends while working really helps me. I worked much later today but felt satisfied with everything I did.
9/3/20
Today I had my zoom call for History. It went pretty well and I snacked on the BEST cereal ever, Apple Jacks. Today I still had to catch up a little but felt much more relaxed about everything. I worked on more of the portfolio and a new assignment from my history class where we introduce ourselves in a slideshow. I talked to my friend Isabella which was nice because we haven't gotten to talk in a long time. Talking with my friends definitely makes the work more enjoyable. I'm still adjusting to online school, but I think it won't be too bad. Even though I don't love regular school, I miss being on campus and learning in person. And I really miss being with my friends.
