Mr. Wolf's English Class Introduction

Hello, everyone.

Good to see you.

My name is Cory Wolf.

I will be working with you for your English class

this year.

It's a pleasure to meet all of you.

Ah, a couple things about me.

I'm from Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Born and raised.

Love the area.

Came down here to Florida after graduating from college.

Um, to be with some family who had moved down

here have fallen in love with parts of Florida.

Other parts?

Not so much.

Uh, but definitely some good memories here already.

I am happily married to the love of my life.

Miss Kirstie Wolf.

She is the light of my life on and is

quite the woman were actually pregnant right now looking at

our first child coming here soon, very soon.

In fact, in your year s o er, we'll kind

of look forward to that.

I have some baby pictures to share with you guys.

Um, I do have a couple of for babies already.

My feline overlords, they're pretty cool.

Theo and Jimmy there a lot of fun.

All right, So why am I here?

What am I doing?

What's going on with Mr Wolf?

I am here for you ladies.

John. Ultimately, I guess I'm also kind of here to

pick up a check.

But I could do that better somewhere else if I

wasn't here for you.

Right? I'm here to be a teacher.

I'm excited to be in this profession.

I'm excited to work with you to help you be

your best self.

I think we're gonna have a lot of fun this

year. Achieving that right?

I'm here on your side.

So what are we doing?

Well, you're doing English Class.

Should be a lot of fun for us.

Of course.

Got the kind of the jargon example up here.

You can see it, but it is exactly as you

would expect it to be.

In many ways where we working on skills of reading

and writing and communicating many of those now with an

emphasis on doing all those things in the 21st century,

right. We're being pushed further and further into this digital

era, especially currently with the covered situation.

Um, we've got a lot to learn, a lot of

master, so we'll be focusing on that throughout this year.

Um, in terms of your grades catalyze.

So I know what an English class.

Looks like I've been to a bunch of them.

But some things are different, right?

For example, grades, uh, grading in my classes based on

a points based system essentially give you points based on

the importance of the assignment.

Right. So a quick warmup assignment.

Hey, I just want you to answer this question or

two. Might be Something is low is like five points,

right? Just a few.

Just enough to get you through.

Uh, that assignment, right?

Make it worth something.

Keeps adding up.

They had a quickly right.

Eventually, um, into quite helping your grade.

Um, your homework assignments, maybe 10.

Or maybe 20 depending on the intensity of that particular

assignment. Your quizzes?

Maybe 40 50.

Your major test, maybe even up to 100 points.

Ah, but they changed throughout.

Right? And you're essentially earning a percentage of the points

each time, which adds up to your grade.

Um, frankly, I've had great success with it.

The vast majority of my students pass.

I'm more than willing to work with you.

Frankly, your grade is what you wanted to be in

this class.

All right.

So some expectations.

The one you must come to class prepared to learn.

That's everything that you feel right.

You know better than I do your personal learning style.

This point that you feel you need to be successful,

right? There's some basics.

There may be paper pens whole, maybe, or your text

that we're currently reading.

But, uh, I strongly suggest at this point you look

into bringing a device to the class as well.

Unfortunately, with the of coverted situation, we do not have

laptops in my class as we have in the past.

Onda majority of my content ties into, for example, Google

classroom and things like that in some ways.

So I strongly suggest bringing your own device to use.

I will do my best to work with you when

those mice can't be used.

But I would definitely suggest bringing your own.

It won't be able to work with that in terms

of further expectations.

I do expect you to respect yourself, respect others, right

to treat each other appropriately.

We're all in this together, right?

Um, you guys didn't choose your give me in the

room with right, but we're gonna make the most of

it together, right?

So I do demand that and kind of ah, base

expectation. And this is one that that really will help

you for the rest.

Your life be on time.

Whether that's being into my classroom on time, which is

gonna be a new experiment this year.

I understand the hallway movement and all that to be

very different this year.

We will work together, make that happen.

But we're going to strive to be on time or

those of you who are now gonna be working with

me online logging on you actually have Teoh bake face

to face contact with me during the class period.

I'll be checking in with you throughout the class.

Be there on time.

Be you ready?

Uh, to get started, right?

We're going to be hitting it every day.

90 minutes?

All right, so so continued expectations.

With that, we are in some troubled times here with

this health pandemic that we're in and we're going back

to school, right?

We're going to make the best stuff it.

So while we're here, we're going to be very respectful

of each other in each other.

Space, right?

The city, health, safety and cleanliness of others.

Even if you're not particularly concerned about it for yourself.

Um, I asked that you are concerned with the rights

of others to a safe and clean classroom.

Right. So, uh, you know, uh, poking fun at a

student who may be taking this very seriously.

Your bags, anything that you bring with you is going

to stay under your desk.

We want clear pathways we re using very little space

s So we really need to make the most of

it as we're trying to separate each other out and

not to be safe here in the classroom.

So if you're gonna bring a big bag, I must

make sure that we are storing those You want to

travel as light as possible at least this year.

Ah, when you walk into my classroom or in this

case when you log on to me with me, uh

uh, are on my classroom, the expectation is that the

drama of whatever is going on in life we try

to leave that at the door.

We try to leave that off of our online platform.

I get it.

Life happens on, we have to deal.

And if you have a situation where you're like like

Mr Wolf.

There's no way that I deal with this with out.

You know, I don't get through class right now with

the other out dealing with this.

Then reach out to me.

I'm on your sign.

I want to help you, right?

Don't. Don't you sit there and suffer, right?

Talk to me.

I'm on your side.

But at the same time, if you can let's try

to leave it outside the door.

Let's get through class.

Let's keep moving forward together.

All right?

So when life happens, right here is the number one

thing I give it.

I understand, but I'm not a mind reader.

You have to communicate to me that life is happening,

That you need some help, for example, right?

You, Uh oh, no, Mr Wolf.

You know, something happened last night or on.

I wasn't able to get on to do some homework,

right? You know, the power went out right long term.

Uh, and I was able to actually do that stuff

that you asked me to do.

What's Okay?

All right, I got get And I've been in power

outages to, uh but I don't know that unless you

tell me right, Generally, even without explaining it to me,

I accept late work if if you're not too concerned

about it, I'm not either.

I usually only subtract about 10% a day.

Eso your first day Something's laid you're looking at like

a 90.

It still may, right that you can earn for that

late the site.

Then we subtract 10 10 10 10 Each day passed

up to five days of entire school week late.

Uh, you can still turn that into me for 50%

all the way until the end of term.

We start turning in grades.

You can turn that in late to make, um So

please, yeah, if you're sitting there going Oh, no, I

don't have to grade that.

I want to, Mr Rules, Right?

Because I missed X assignment or y Asan give them

to me on.

We'll get him.

Great. Well, given the great, But, you know, if something's

particularly amazing, I've even been known Teoh even kind of

scrap some of the lost points.

If you really put in so high effort into this

Simon right at the end of the day, I'm interested

in you learning.

So finish your work make it happen on get through

it. All right.

So specifically for online learning.

And for those of you were gonna be in class

with me, we're gonna be using Google classroom it zzz

locus of all of our different systems.

We get a bunch.

But it is the center point through which everything will

be pushed out.

All assignments, all links to the other things that were

using over class meetings.

Everything will be through Google classroom eso please make sure

that you are using Google classroom to its full effectiveness.

If you need help with it, reach out to me.

I want to help you with your with your local

class are problems.

I do want to make sure that we are aware

that, uh, even if we moved to online class, right,

uh, let's say they they closed classrooms or those of

you who are already staying home.

Right, And you are gonna be engaging with me for

your attendants.

You do have to check in with me during the

period every single class day in order, Teoh not catch

an absence for that.

We also doing Tardis and all of those things, right?

So you have to be on time.

You have to check in with me.

We've got to make a face to face.

Right. So I know that you're there on we get

set up for that, right?

Uh, but I will say right, because I do have

to at least see you, uh, please be presentable, right?

And treated like you're going to class that day, right?

Uh, let's let's not have to meeting meetings in our

pajamas. But anyway, outside of those things, right, Prezi German,

Um, this is the beginning of what's going to be

an amazing journey this year.

We've really got a lot going on.

Um, and frankly, I think we're looking at what is

going to be a difficult, but ultimately, I hope, a

rewarding year that we learn a lot together.

So if you need anything, reach out to me.

You can reach me by email.

You can reach me through a global classroom, right?

You can call the school if you would like.

I'll be glad to talk with you.

Let's get through this together.

All right, guys, I look forward to seeing you online

or in class on getting to know all of you,

and, uh, I hope you have a great

Mr. Wolf's English Class Introduction

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