1. Dear Ms. ***, I know SON missed the deadline with his project – but it was totally my fault. Please consider the following information before finalizing your decision. As you probably know, SON was out of town Oct -Oct  (returned yesterday). For his Social Studies project, he initially wanted to create a video game where the player (traveler) would go through the Cree land and encounter representatives of the Cree tribe who will tell the player about their tribe. He spent two days (a combined of about 12 hours) before our trip working on the game. I am not familiar with the coding software he used and don’t fully understand what exactly was the problem, but the game didn’t work as planned. He created all the images and the Cree characters were moving as he wanted, but there was something wrong with the interactive part of the game. So SON eventually gave up and wrote a draft of a paper about the Cree tribe (took him about three hours) before our trip. After we returned, he decided to give the video game another try and spent about three working on it again yesterday. He made some improvements, but the game still didn’t work, so he followed my advice and finished up his paper, which he emailed to me yesterday (see screenshot from my email).   I promised to print the file at work (we don’t have a printer at home) and have it ready for him for school this morning. I got busy at work (too many things piled up while we were away for a week) and forgot to do it. This morning, he called me from school and reminded me about the paper and I promised to print and drop it off at school, but I got to this only now. I attach here SON’s original paper. I hope you will still accept it. He may not be the most diligent student, but this time he actually worked very diligently and did everything and more than he needed to do, but missed the deadline totally because of me.