"Find Your Voice"
May 11, 2019
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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 marks the final academic week for our inaugural group of seniors. Wow - just wow!
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- 5/15: Sr. video editing 8:30-11:00. Seniors please be at school!!
- 5/16 : High School Talent & Awards Show, 10 a.m.
- 5/17: Last Academic Day for Seniors
- 5/20: Sr. Day Trip and Cookout, 8 a.m. - 7:30 P.M.
- 5/21: Graduation Practice at Middletown Christian Church, 9-11 a.m.
- 5/22: Sr. Brunch, Lake Forest Country Club, 9:00 a.m.
- 5/22: Graduation, 7:00 P.M., Middletown Christian Church
- 5/24: KY Kingdom Trip 9th-11th graders, 8:30-2:30
- 5/27: NO SCHOOL
- 5/29: Last day of School: Noon Dismissal (Carnival)
- 5/30: End of the year Conferences
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High School Talent & Awards Show
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Please plan on joining us at 10 a.m. for a morning of High School awards and talent this Thursday, 5/16, in the auditorium. Parents, you may start arriving at 9:45 to receive your programs for the show and get seated. Seniors and parents of seniors, some of the awards for seniors will be given at this time, while some will be given during the Senior Graduation Brunch. We expect this program to last approximately 1 hour.
*Students - a reminder that you MUST meet with Ms. Finn during Period 4 on Monday if you are planning to participate in the talent portion of the program.
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Back by Popular Demand: Girls Lock-In
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The girls are having one more lock-in this Friday, May 17 from 6 PM - 9 a.m. in Summit Academy High School. The cost is $10 for dinner. Please bring a snack to share, your pj's and a sleeping bag. There is still time to add your name to the list if you'd like to join us - even if you'd just like to come for the evening, but don't want to spend the night! RSVP to sbeach@summmit-academy.org and put your name on the list on the high school bulletin board. Below are some pictures from the first lock in.
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Senior Graduation
Checklist
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You are doing a great job staying on top of your checklist, parents! I now have all RSVPs for Brunch and Sr. Experience Day. This week, just enjoy those last five morning send-offs and carpool pickups! Come join us for a fun morning of talent and awards on Thursday morning, and remember caps and gowns will be coming home on Friday afternoon.
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- Math: Students all took a pre-final assessment and will make corrections this week in preparation for the FINAL final:)
- Literacy: Students are on final chapter of Across Five Aprils, as well as Ch 15 of Vocab book.
- Economics: Excellent business meeting with Mr. Strothman - so proud of these entrepreneurs! Wrapping up this week with our summer to-do list.
- Biology: Shark dissection in the lab Monday-Thursday. All are welcome to come view!
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- Career Ed:
- Employees from Amazon spoke to Summit students on Thursday, and we all got to find out some amazing information about this global organization.
- Please keep checking emails from the SummerWorks program, jobs are beginning to roll in. Let me know if you have any questions.
- Tours of the UPS facility can be organized for graduating 12th graders to start training for potential employment in August. Let me know if interested.
- Details have now been sent to our KY Science Center volunteers, let me know if you need any more information.
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- Math: Review sessions: immersion reviews in perimeter vs area, factors vs multiples, prime vs composite numbers, equivalent fractions and metric conversions
- Literacy: writing and editing persuasion letter rough drafts, completing final drafts, delivering letters to intended audience
- Health: research current issues: helping a friend with mental illness and supporting (or not) through research whether video games cause violent behavior
- Practical Living: investigating survival skills when dealing with ADHD, classroom jobs, recycling, focus on executive skills
- Physical Science: review and assessment of Chapter 12/Magnets and Electromagnetism, investigating the cause of the nuclear explosion in Chernobyl and the effects still evident today
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- Math: We will continue to work with all four quadrants of the coordinate plane. We will also review skills learned throughout the year.
- Literacy: Test over MacBeth has been rescheduled for Monday. Next week we will continue studying Shakespeare by focusing on his sonnets and learning about iambic pentameter.
- Spanish 1 : Everyone did great with the cumulative vocabulary test. Next week we will review the grammar rules we have learned throughout the year, and verb conjugation.
- Spanish 2 :We will continue to work on Unit 4 next week. Our focus will be on clothing and shopping vocabulary, along with stem changing verbs.
- Senior Seminar: For our last week of classes we will continue our discussion of healthy relationships and dating safety.
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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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