No Name-Calling Week is celebrated by numerous schools around the country during the 4th week of January (JAN. 23-27). The focus is to end name-calling of all kinds and encourage an on-going dialogue about ways to eliminate bullying.
In support of No Name Calling Week HOPE members would like to encourage every student and staff member to sign our banner supporting our theme of RESPECT. Also, within the next few days you will notice posters hanging in our hallways supporting our anti-bullying efforts.
We will briefly visit AM & PM career programs to encourage all students to sign their name in support of this effort. We will also have HOPE members stop by academic classrooms & offices to get staff signatures.
Our banner will be displayed in building #4 as a reminder to show RESPECT toward others .
Thanking you in advance for your support!
The HOPE committee & Advisors: Ms. Whelan, Ms. Moffitt, Dr. Hourani, & Ms. Swider
Friday, January 20, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
EXPOSITORY ESSAY! "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou (DUE 1/30)
THE GOAL OF AN EXPOSITORY ESSAY IS TO IDENTIFY AND EXPOSE THE TRUTH OR REALITY OF SOMETHING IN A PIECE OF WRITING.
DIRECTIONS: Submit the final drafts of your expository essays via Gdocs no earlier than 1/25 and no later than 1/30. Please copy the Gdocs hyperlink to your essay and post it to the comment box. If you have any questions, please make sure to ask prior to submission deadline.
H A P P Y W R I T I N G !
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
THINK LIKE A WRITER: SOME HELP FROM FICTION NOTES ABOUT METAPHOR!
FICTION NOTES! Make An Image Become A Symbol
"You want to think about the objects in your story, something concrete, some object you can see or touch or hold. Now you’ll work to add an emotional attachment to that object.
One student wrote an essay about her high school basketball career, how that sport, that team, that basketball court was her life. On the night of her last game of her senior, she walked out of the locker room and her Dad threw her a basketball. She caught it and held it cupped in both hands, a brown globe, a world that had consumed her last four years.
Suddenly that circular shape of the ball becomes a globe, a world that represents much more than just a pebbly brown ball that bounces. It held all her high school memories and it was a poignant moment."
-Darcy Pattison
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." -Michael Jordan
"You want to think about the objects in your story, something concrete, some object you can see or touch or hold. Now you’ll work to add an emotional attachment to that object.
One student wrote an essay about her high school basketball career, how that sport, that team, that basketball court was her life. On the night of her last game of her senior, she walked out of the locker room and her Dad threw her a basketball. She caught it and held it cupped in both hands, a brown globe, a world that had consumed her last four years.
Suddenly that circular shape of the ball becomes a globe, a world that represents much more than just a pebbly brown ball that bounces. It held all her high school memories and it was a poignant moment."
-Darcy Pattison
BASKETBALL IS LIFE.
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." -Michael Jordan
Monday, January 16, 2012
HAPPY MLK DAY!
HAPPY MLK DAY!
Today, let us remember the man, his dream, and the reality of equality we enjoy everyday as Americans. http://bit.ly/A5G9sQ
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