High School News
March 1, 2021
Events
3/14: Daylight Savings Time Begins
3/15: Half Day, AM Dismissal
3/17: St. Patrick's Day
3/28, 3/29: Passover
3/29 - 4/2: Spring Recess/NO SCHOOL
Vitamin Z In Print!
You can be Sad, Angry, Upset, Anxious, Drained, Overwhelmed, Unsure, or Afraid and still be a positive person. We start each day with positivity here at the high school but that does not mean that negative things do not happen. IT IS OK TO FEEL NEGATIVE FEELINGS… you just have to make sure that you never lose hope. Things will work out! 
“Every little thing gonna be all right” -Bob Marley
New Media Art News
New Media 1 are re-imagining what typical movie posters look like with different genres.
New Media 2 students are working on creating a motion tween game in Adobe Animate.
Residential Structures
Students in Residential Structures are discovering new things about their homes. They are learning about common architectural styles, identifying utility services, and are using their skills in mechanical drawing to measure and create a set of floor plans and plot plans for their homes. This will lead into framing a model home of their own design.
Creative Woodworking
Students in Creative Woodworking are completing the “Hand Tool Challenge” in which they will build a live-edge book/game stand using a single piece of material and hand-powered tools. They learn to apply geometric measurement for the laying out of dovetail joinery and groove joinery that they will use to assemble the product. A short video on dovetailing
Carving & Bending
Students are using models to learn the ins and outs of blades, bladesmithing, and blade physics. What is the history of carving? How do we make blades today? What are the opportunities for someone interested in carving or smithing?
This leads into our base skill for the course: How do you sharpen and maintain the correct type of edge on any type of blade you come across?
Life Skills Tech
CHS Life Skills Tech students are learning a new skill in textile technology as they create potholders using cardboard looms.
French
French 1 is learning how to discuss things they like and do not like to do. By the end of the month they will be able to accept and refuse invitations, to do some of the activities on our vocabulary list and hold a short conversation in French.
French 2/3 is learning about clothing vocabulary and can describe what they wear. Soon, they will be able to describe what they WORE through the use of the past tense.
French 4 is doing some heavy grammar lifting and has recently completed some practice in the futur and conditionnel tenses. Soon, they’ll add object pronouns to be able to create beautifully complicated sentences with ease. 
Life Skills Language and Culture is still learning Somewhere Over the Rainbow in ASL - they will hopefully perform it next month! They are learning more about deaf culture and what it means to be deaf or hard of hearing in the United States. They will also be learning more about Helen Keller and how she overcame the challenges she met in her lifetime.

All French students will be participating in Manie Musicale de mars this year. They will be listening to 16 songs in French and learning about each of the artists. Then our students will vote in a bracket along with students from over 200 high schools around North America to choose the best song from the 16 presented. It is something most students look forward to each year. Just because we're not all in school face to face that doesn't mean that we can't keep the tradition alive!
If you would like to listen to the songs, please click the link below to open up a YouTube playlist. Manie Musicale de mars 2021 YouTube Playlist Which song do you think will win?
English News
9th Graders are starting a new unit on a topic they are all-too-often familiar with, Argument! English Students in 9th grade are starting their Argumentative Research Unit.

Students in Film Study have been learning about the early developments of Film and the Film Industry and are using their newfound knowledge to analyze aspects of classic films such as The Kid and Citizen Kane.

Muse-ings continues to accept submissions of original Artwork and/or Writing from students in grades 9-12 until Spring Break (3/27 deadline). Contact Mr. Morgan at smorgan@cortlandschools.org with any questions or submissions for Cortland High’s long-standing Art and Literary Magazine, Muse-ings!
Math News
Algebra 1A - Students are working on graphing linear functions and will be moving into systems of equations. 

Mathematical Financial Management 2 - Students are finishing their first unit of the semester about Banking. Soon students will be moving into the second unit about Loans. A wonderful opportunity for students to earn TC3 college credit for this course.
Biology News
Regents Biology students are learning why bread has holes in it based on their knowledge of anaerobic cellular respiration utilized by yeast.

College Biology students are learning about cellular respiration in connection with Chicago’s Tylenol Cyanide murders from 1982.
Internship Program
Students who were accepted into the internship program have begun to participate in their internship experiences. Local businesses who have graciously taken in internship students include Cortland Crush Baseball, Crossroads Veterinary Clinic, Equus Advisors, and Walgreens. Our IT Dept. continues to host our Tiger Tech students. All students will be gaining at least 100 hours of hands-on, real world experience in preparation for a successful career after high school.
School Nurse News
Physicals for grades 9 and 11 will continue through the month of March. We also offer physicals for working papers, sports and as needed CSE meetings. Call your health provider to schedule one or have one here at school. 
 
As always, if your student is sick please keep them home. You can call directly to attendance if your child will be tardy, absent or dismissed early at (607)-758-4084.
 
We also encourage all students to get a flu shot. 
 
To keep everyone safe, keep wearing a mask, practice social distancing, wash your hands frequently and avoid touching your mouth, nose and eyes.
 
Looking forward to some spring weather and sunshine as March comes.
Purchase Your Yearbook!
There’s still time to purchase your yearbook! This will surely be a year to look back on, so reserve your copy today! Visit the CoHiAn website for information on how to order a yearbook and also how to place a senior recognition ad or business ad! https://sites.google.com/cortlandschools.org/cohian/home
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Library Media Center News
The American Library Association recently announced the 2021 Youth Media Awards. Many of the award winners are available at the library for students to check out. Here are just a few. John Newbery Award: When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller, Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn, Alex Awards: The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice - Crossing Antarctica Alone by Colin O’Brady and The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones, YALSA Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young Adults: The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindedberg by Candace Fleming. Just to name a few! Come to the library and see our display of all the award winners waiting for you to read them.
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ALL Students!
Cortland Free Library
There is always something fun to do at the library!

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