High School Highlights

"Find Your Voice"

August 30, 2019

Welcome back to High School Highlights; a weekly wrap-up of events, designed especially for parents and students at Summit Academy High School, to help keep them in the know. We have had a busy week, capped off by the Seniors' first day of Internships. Enjoy your three-day weekend!

Upcoming Events:

9/2 No School, Labor Day
9/3 Seniors: CAPS After School Mtg. 3:15-4:15 Rm. 301
9/4 PTO Mtg 6:30 PM (Lacy Ran's house)
9/7 Middletown Parade/Summit Family Picnic (meet at 11:30 at Eastern H.S. to walk in parade)
9/12 Picture Day
9/12 Parent Back to School Night 7:00 PM

SUMMIT ACADEMY EVENTS

Labor of Love = Budding Entrepreneurs

Last year, a group of high school students in Economics class began working on a plan. Their plan was to honor former Summit teacher, Chris Bryant, by building a coffee shop in his name on the campus, where students could both work and socialize. (Mr. Bryant was known in the high school halls for always having a mug of coffee in his hand and a friendly word for everyone he passed.) After seven months of careful planning and raising funds, the students "broke ground" on the renovation of the Sierra House today, which is the future home of Mr. B's Coffee Shop. It will be completely student operated. While the Seniors were hard at work at their off-campus internships, underclassmen Katie, Nolan, Hannah (pictured) and Zach O, Zach C and Parker were busy helping remove the old carpeting and preparing the floors for the installation of new hardwood laminate flooring. Stay tuned for updates on their progress!

Teacher Updates

Mrs. Beach

General Info: Thank you for helping your child prepare for the 2019-20 High School Dress Code changes. Dress code is in full effect after Labor Day.

Math: Order of Operations review complete. Individual quizzes after Lesson 4 in Simple Solutions.
Literacy: Next week we will begin the novel, "The Giver".
Biology: Students spent the last 2 days in the Science lab learning to identify lab and dissection equipment and its uses. Coming up: owl pellet dissection

Ms. Finn

Math: Students are working hard on playlists. We are reviewing fractions and decimals.
Literacy: Students have turned in their first Key Project and taken their first vocabulary quiz.
Quest: We have been talking about goals and values.
Earth Science: Students are beginning their second unit on earth and moon systems.
Forensic Science: We have looked at things forensic scientists do and have taken our first test over the fingerprinting process.

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Mr. Harris

It has been an exciting week!

Career Ed/School to Work: Students have completed their first presentation of the year. Nolan has been given an additional shift in his paid position, and Max Braden has managed to turn his intern position into a paid position! All seniors started their intern positions.
Geography & Cultures: Seniors have had their DNA tested for our Geography & Cultures class, so an exciting journey of discovery awaits them!

Ms. Miller

Spanish : Students will continue to build basic vocabulary through Duolingo. Next week we will examine various cultural highlights and trimester 1 projects will be assigned. (Spanish 1 - spanish speaking countries/Spanish 2 - influential hispanics)

World Civ :Next week we will be moving into the Neolithic Period and learn about the Agricultural Revolution. Students' take and make assignment on fossils and artifacts is due Tuesday.
Practical Living: We will finish our unit on Growth Mindset and discuss how to apply it to our lives. We will also practice writing SMART goals for ourselves, based on what we learned from the GM lessons on Khan Academy.

As always, please let us know if there is anything we can do for you!

Your High School Team ~

Susan Beach [ contact ]

Keeley Finn [ contact ]

Jenny Miller [ contact ]

Ben Harris [ contact ]

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