"Find Your Voice"
November 9, 2018
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Welcome back
to High School Highlights; a weekly wrap-up of events, designed especially for high school parents and students at Summit Academy, to help keep you in the know. This week marked a visit to the high school by the ISACS team, whose job was to look at our overall 4-year high school program for accreditation purposes. What a positive experience it was to be able to share our exceptional students with these visitors for a few days, as well as to see our program through their objective eyes!
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- 11/12: High School Social Activity: House of Boom, 3:30-5:00p
- 11/21-11/23: No School
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Monday, November 12, come out to the House of Boom
on Shelbyville Rd from 3:30-5:00 to hang out with your friends from Summit and jump around! If you are under the age of 18, parent must go online and fill out a waiver prior to student being allowed to jump! Mrs. Mounkes and Mrs. Beach can provide rides from Summit to House of Boom after school - parents only need to pick up! Cost is $15 to jump.[
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Harlem Wizards Game Cheerleaders
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A big thank you from Mr. Harris and Mrs. Beach to our wonderful high school cheering section at the Harlem Wizards game on October 28. In the crowd for the high school were
Alex, John, Ashley, Eden and Emily (pictured above)
, as well as
Abby, Ryan, Angelina and Ms. Miller.
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Derek is an extremely talented Summit Academy Senior, who came to us from Michigan his sophomore year. When he is not at school, you can find him practicing long hours on the drums with his band, Out of This World. This Sunday, November 11, you can see him in action at Hard Rock Cafe on 4th Street. His rock band will be performing at 5:25 PM. He also plays with a jazz band, which will be performing during the day between the hours of 1 and 6. Come on out and support this amazing student and musician! So proud of you, Derek!
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- Math: Good start on fractions this week! Next week students will continue their study of fractions, as well as be reassessed with the STAR to update their growth. Keep up the great work!
- Literacy: With Vocab Units 1-6 complete, this week brings about our first vocab review. Students will be working on word studies of the vocabulary from units 1-6, including idioms, denotation, connotation and using root words to determine meaning.
- Economics: This group of students has been collaborating on a variety of skills needed to successfully work in a small business. Next week the independence level of these jobs will increase as they self-regulate by using checklists to monitor their work.
- Biology: Owl pellet dissection is complete and students are working on writing up their lab reports. This includes learning to create appropriate tables and charts on their Chromebooks to record their scientific data.
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Please check
my website
for updates about what your student is doing in class this week, homework assignments, upcoming tests or quizzes, and exciting news about my classroom.
https://msfinnsclassinfo.weebly.com
. Updates will be made Friday or Saturday.
- Math: Students in math are almost all finished with the decimals unit. Some students are now working with positive and negative integers, and some are working on ratios, percentages and proportions.
- Literacy: Students are doing well with grammar and informational reading. Don't forget to remind your student that Key Projects are due Monday. We are getting through Dracula and students are annotating the text.
- American Govt: Students have mostly finished their immigration webquest assignment. Everyone did really well!
- Science: Students have given their climate change presentations and have turned in their annotated bibliography. The bibliographies look really good!
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School to Work:
David and Zachary are doing very well at their internship positions at the KY Derby Museum. Both boys are helping with various tasks, and have a very good rapport with staff members and customers alike. Well done boys! Back in the classroom, the 9th and 10th graders are working on a project with Path Forward to learn about teamwork. (see picture below)
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In Mr. Harris' 9th and 10th grade Career Class, students are working on a project with Path Forward to learn about teamwork.
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- Math: Multiplying and dividing fractions all week. Also, practice using a protractor to make acute, right and obtuse angles. Next week - a thorough review of fractions using all 4 operations, as well as an introduction to decimals.
- Literacy: Taking a closer look at adverbs and how they differ from adjectives. Also creating Thanksgiving cards to be sent to chosen friends. The class plans to read a few more fables before they start writing one of their own; and, we continue building our vocabularies with a daily "word of the day".
- Health: The class has been learning about the different body systems. We have started at the top (brain) and are finishing up this week with the Digestive and Excretory systems. Our wall human is almost complete.
- Practical Living: Independent household jobs were rotated again and performed. The students continue to gain confidence in performing their jobs independently. Emily taught us how to prepare fruit smoothies (which were delicious). Recycling assignment has been very productive with lots of compliments and thanks. We have also begun an extra weekly job of washing and folding the Freshmen's soiled gym T-shirts.
- Physical Science: We have been investigating some fairly tough material; namely, compounds, radicals and subscripts. We have learned how to find the number of atoms in a compound element. Because the nature of this material can be difficult to comprehend, we will spend more time with it next week. The class is doing great, though.
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- Math: This week we began learning some money focused vocabulary and learning to identify the parts of a check. Next week we will practice writing checks and balancing a check register. We will also continue daily practice in Simple Solutions.
- Literacy: This week the students finished and turned in their illustrated hero books. We also began reading The Odyssey. Next week we will continue our novel study with daily comprehension checks and reader response writing assignments. We will be spending extra time on the unfamiliar vocabulary words from the text, and practice using context clues to find their meanings.
- Spanish 1: This week we focused on talking about items and activities we enjoy using "me gusta." We will continue with this next week, as we add to our Spanish vocabulary. Students will continue to work on Duolingo daily.
- Spanish 2: This week we continued to work on time and schedules, which will be continued next week. We are also practicing putting together more complex sentences when we speak in class each day.
- Senior Seminar: This week we finished out our "hobbies, Skills, and Humanities" section by looking at slam poetry, song lyrics, and watching a few topic based Ted Talks. The students brought up some very insightful comments during our discussions and even challenged each other to look at our discussion topics from multiple perspectives. Next week we will begin our Adulting 101 section, which will focus on independent living. We will also begin weekly lessons using our Social Thinking curriculum.
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As always, please let us know if there is anything we can do for you!
Your High School Team ~
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