Welcome back to school

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Welcome back to school
2013- 2014
Mark Tierney 8th Grade U.S. History
Contact Information Phone [phone] x3257 Email
mtierney_at_pleasantonusd.net
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1. Pleasanton Unified School Dist. At
www.pleasanton.k12.ca.us
2. Hart
3. History
4.Web

• Here is the easiest way to contact
• Me and have access to all the
• Resources available on my website

• Scroll down the left side of the page
• And select Hart

• From the Hart page click on departments
• and select History

• Finally click on Tierneys web

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Once on the web page there a ton of reference and
resources for you and your student.

• General information
• Pictures with reference links

• If your student requires a weekly grade check on
  Fridays for homework club or any other reason
  please have them bring a print out

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Grades
New System this year Zangle, you can Access it
from my web page If you havent picked up the
Parent info see the office staff For your packet
There is new this year the student Connect on
Zangle info was in Packet received at walk
through Registration.
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Resource pages

• Homework page
• Will show what was done in class as well as
  homework
• Also if something was a work sheet it will be
  linked to my downloads and can be printed at home

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Downloads

• On this page you have access to all the hand outs
  used in class
• There is also access to video that your student
  missed while absent

Download issues go to Adobe.com and download the
version for your computer. Its free
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History Day Project
This project is something that the whole 8th
grade participates in.
This years theme is The Innovations in American
History Impact and Change. There will be a
packet of info and calendar of due dates to come
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Field trip

• Starting in February we will be taking trips to
  the Alameda County Courthouse on Stoneridge Dr.

• Here we will see peoples Constitutional rights in
  action

• Parental chaperones are welcome you just need to
  be cleared through the school

• Please see table for the forms
• They take 4-6 weeks to process

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Washington D.C. trip over Memorial Day weekend 5
Days
Parent info night Wednesday Sept. 15 in the
library at 7 PM
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About me

• I was born and raised in Pleasanton and attended
  Pleasanton Schools from Kindergarten through High
  School. After graduating from Amador Valley I
  went to Ohlone Junior College and then
  transferred and graduated from Cal State Hayward
  1997. From 1998 to 2000 I was living and working
  on my Teaching Credential in Chico CA. In 2000 I
  received my Credential from Chico State and
  returned home to Pleasanton. In October of 2000 I
  was hired at Thomas Hart Middle school to teach
  seventh and eighth grade social studies.

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My wife Erin and me
My Family
Smokie and me
Maddie, Mia and Kenzie