CPALs at W&M

11/28/2020

We miss you all so much! Hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving! Enjoy these cards from your tutors and teachers!

09/03/2020

Hello Learners,

It has been a long time since we were able to meet with you all, and it will be a long time, until we will meet in person, again. Still, our club is dedicated to helping you learn English. English is essential knowledge in the United States, and can be helpful when navigating through many countries. Knowing English will open up many opportunities for you, and CPALs is dedicated to making sure that we can do our part in that process.

We have created a plan for our Fall 2020 Learning Session, and would like you to join us for classes starting September 17th, 2020 at 7:00pm. Further, in this email you will find the steps that we are taking to make the Fall 2020 Learning Session possible, and additional information about changes being made to improve your learning experience.

Virtual Classes & Online Lectures
Our online lectures will be emailed every Tuesday at 12:00AM. These are videos of the teachers teaching that you should watch before class.

Virtual classes will be held every Thursday from 7:00-8:30 starting September 17th. Classes will be online using a conference video call on Google Meets! Email or FB Message us for the link!

You can use google meets on a computer, laptop, tablet, or phone through its own app or through the gmail app. If you have trouble understanding these instructions email us so that we can assist you!

Please fill out the form found in the following link, so that we can best prepare for this semester: https://forms.gle/M6mBReZnAJgNwEop9

Other New Things,

Progress Assessment:
Due to changes in how often learners will interact with teachers and tutors, we have decided to begin conducting voluntary progress assessments which will be used to help teachers track each learner’s progress. These assessments are only used to help teachers teach, it will not be used to define a learners’' abilities.

Conversation Partners:
This year tutors will work as conversation partners for learners, who chose to have one. A conversation partner will set up times to talk to their learner about whatever they decide through whatever medium they chose, whether that be phone, video call, or instant messaging. Conversation Partners will be announced on September 15, 2020.

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09/03/2020

We are so excited that classes are going to start again! Celebrate CPALs adapting to Covid-19 with us

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and join our Facebook community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143610162325192

See you all on September 17th!

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09/03/2020

Check your emails because classes are starting again soon. But this year classes will look a little different!

We invite you to join us on September 17th, 2020 for our first virtual class!

Message us for the Google Meet Link, or if you are on our email list, you can find it there too!

Plan on joining us for class? Awesome, take the first step and connect with us on our Facebook community:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/143610162325192

02/20/2020

Hello everyone!

I hope you're all well. William & Mary has canceled all classes and activites for the rest of the day because of the incoming snow. Because of this, THERE IS NO CPALS CLASS TONIGHT.

We will continue with our normal class schedule next week.

Have a restful night off!

02/05/2020

Great first lesson of the semester! We hope to see you all at our next lesson on Thursday! We'll be meeting in Morton Hall room 201 at 7:00pm.

02/04/2020

Hello everyone! We hope to see you at our first lesson tonight! We are meeting in Morton Hall, room 201 at 7:00 pm! Please park in Colonial Williamsburg. The parking lot outside of Morton Hall is not open to visitors. This map shows where you should park (RED) and how to walk to Morton Hall from there (GREEN). We're so excited to see you all!

01/25/2020

Happy new year! We hope you all had a wonderful break from CPALs! We are starting our next semester of classes and we're excited to see all of you again! Our first day of classes will be Tuesday, February 4 at 7:00 pm. The lesson will end at 8:00 pm. We are confirming our location, so we will send out another email and post to Facebook next week to tell you where we are meeting. But, save the date and time in your calendar!

We will have information for you about this semester of CPALs at that lesson, so we hope to see all of you there.

11/22/2019

Happy (early) Thanksgiving! During our lesson tonight, we learned about the many histories of Thanksgiving. For some, Squanto saved the pilgrims and they celebrated with a 3-day feast, for others, it was a day to thank God for a safe journey to the Americas, and for others, it was a time of great sadness and genocide. Though the history of this holiday is more complex than we sometimes remember, today Thanksgiving is a time for family, giving thanks, and being grateful.

And of course... it's about the food! Tonight we ate pumpkin pie, stuffing, and mac n' cheese!

We also learned about the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade, neighborhood football games, and Lucy pulling the football out from Charlie Brown. All Thanksgiving classics!

What does your family do on Thanksgiving? And what's your must-have Thanksgiving food?

11/07/2019

Tonight we are still having CPALs class from 7:00 - 8:30 pm, but we are meeting in JAMES BLAIR HALL (James Blair Dr, Williamsburg, VA 23185), room 229. This building is on the other side of the William & Mary campus. Please park on Richmond Road in a street parking spot.

If you get lost, ask any William & Mary student!

We hope to see you all tonight!

We are still working on Morton Hall parking issues, but it is likely that for the rest of the semester, we will meet in James Blair Hall.