"Find Your Voice"
October 13, 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. The high school students have all received their high school ID's on lanyards. These ID's are part of the high school uniform code so they need to have them on each day. This week marks the end of the grading period as far as infractions and grades for the 1st trimester, as we will be working on progress reports this Friday.
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- 10/18: No School: Conference Prep Day
- 10/23: Building School Community Meeting
- 10/24: Mountaintop Breakfast, 8 a.m. (normal school day)
- : SPT Conferences - Seniors 3:30-6:00
- 10/25: No School:
- SPT Conferences - Fresh, Soph, Jr 8:00-12:00
- : HS Fall Social, 7:30-9:30, Summit Cafeteria, Tickets on sale now
- 10/29: Tricks & Treats, school-wide STEM-night, RSVP now
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First Reveal of what's been brewing...
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The cafe' side of the soon-to-be Mr. B's Coffee Shop is coming together and we wanted to give you a peek. Dutch doors have been completed on both sides of the kitchen, so that customers can order from the cafe' or the foyer leading to the lounge area. High top tables and stools create a bistro look, while the banners of those sponsors that made this project possible hang above the condiment table. Stay tuned for more reveal pictures and an announcement of opening day!
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Forensic Science...what's it all about?
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Forensic Science is one of our new Science electives this year. The class draws from several areas of science, including chemistry, biology and physics, in order to evaluate different types of physical evidence. For example, students pictured here (Nolan and Caleb) are doing a lab analyzing hair samples. Students are taught the importance of applying scientific methods and processes to accurately problem solve.
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- Fall Social Tickets will be on sale the rest of this week. We need to sell 8 more tickets by Thursday in order to have enough participation to make it a fun event for all, as well as to offset costs. Please remember to purchase your tickets so that we can proceed with this annual event!
- Thanks to all of you who have signed up for conferences. We are almost at 100%. I will be making calls to anyone who has not signed up for a conference yet this week to get you scheduled. Here is the link once more : https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0A48A8A72AA6FF2-fall1
- Math: We did progress monitoring using STAR testing this week and students tried to meet or pass their goals. Talk at home about their results if you haven't yet!
- Literacy: Vocabulary Unit 2 Test Tuesday: definition, synonyms and antonyms. Class Vocab Review Monday for Test. We have completed through Ch. 17 in The Giver and done a review of concepts.
- Biology: This week, we will start studying the external and internal anatomy of the earthworm in preparation for our 1st dissection.
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- Math: Students are working with positive and negative numbers, ratios, percentages, decimals and fractions.
- Literacy: Key projects will be due this Monday. All students have NoRedInk or NewsELA for homework.
- QUEST: We are talking about positive and negative decision and decision making skills. Students have been building a Quest Journal.
- Earth Science: Students have built barometers and have planted lima beans in order to observe plant transpiration this week.
- Forensic Science: Students have completed the hair analysis lab and are studying for their Unit 5 Test on Tuesday.
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- Career Ed & School to Work
- Well done to Mo, who got excellent feedback from his paid internship at Goodwill.
- In the next few weeks, I plan to visit all seniors on the internships to see the great work they are doing.
- Geography & Cultures: Seniors will present their DNA projects next week. Parents, please contact me if you have any questions regarding what they need to bring in for it.
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- Spanish : Students did well on their vocab quiz for Leccion 1. Next week we will begin the second half of Unidad 1. We will continue to practice Spanish pronouns and will introduce adjectives and masculine/feminine word forms.
- World Civ : Next week we will continue our exploration of Ancient Egypt. Our focus will be on the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms and some of the more famous pharaohs.
- Practical Living: We are going to take a break from consumer math, but will be returning to it later in the year. Next week we will shift our focus to time management, organization, and study skills.
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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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