Lesson 1:

Partner interviews and introductions.

This is a “getting to know you” lesson designed to build classroom culture and camaraderie. If possible, you could teach this lesson as a live, synchronous, virtual activity. Otherwise, you may ask students to record brief introductions of themselves via Flipgrid or a similar app, or substitute a different culture-building activity more conducive to virtual learning.

Book preview.

Conducting this activity virtually would be challenging, and you may wish to skip it. If you wish to conduct the activity virtually, you could consider sharing summaries of unit texts.