Parent+Letter

15 September 2009 Dear Sixth Grade Parent: Over the next four weeks your student will be completing an exciting project for their World Civilizations class. Each child will participate in creating a fictional country, complete with its own history, geography, language, religion, and other cultural elements. This is an opportunity for your student to apply the skills they have learned during this first quarter of the school year. Each student has received an information sheet outlining the basic requirements of the assignment. Students will have an ample amount of time to work on this project in class since I will be giving them up to eight class periods to work on this assignment. The project will then be due a couple weeks later on Tuesday, October 13th. I want you to be aware that your child has been given the option of working on the project with one other student or alone. The child is free to choose what they would prefer to do. However, I realize that sometimes projects are taken home and that the students occasionally expect parents to transport them to friends’ homes to complete projects such as these. Similarly, sometimes parents know that their child works better with one student rather than another. Therefore, I expect all parents to send me a note giving their approval for their student to work with a specific other student in 6th grade. In rare cases, I do reserve the right to assign a third person to a group so that no one who wants to work with a group is left out. Students will be required to submit a plan for their division of labor on the project so that I can clearly see the work that is going to be done by each student. While there will be ample class time to work on this project, some groups may wish to work on this outside of class. Therefore, if any parent has a concern about their child working in a group, I would like to address that immediately so that there are no surprises or unwanted difficulties. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. In Christ,