Essays Past Due

Please make sure your essay about your college major is either turned in or revised (depending on your situation) before grading day-- LAST CALL
Here is what we did in class this week if you were absent:

Financial Lessons:
Financial vocabulary chart
Financial Scenarios: Group Work

AVID DISTRICT AWARD NIGHT!

MAY 4TH! (New Date) Put it on your calendar, take the night off from work, make sure your parents and your auntie and grandma get invitations!
Please make sure to get this special night on your family calendar!
6:30 at North Salem High-- wear your business casual outfit and celebrate your AVID success!

Pick a Major and Map out your Baccalaureate Core!

Hopefully you completed the assignment about picking your courses for the first two years of college this week. If you were not in class for any of the days, please see Mrs. Eddy or Mrs. Ingerson right away. If you simply did not complete it-- then you will receive an "F": grade and just move on.

Essay Assignment: How and Why to Choose a College Major
Essay due: Friday, April 15th-- in person or by email to Ingerson or Eddy.
All Essays must be ready to submit: fully revised for content and organization and fully edited for errors.
Thanks!

Break Time: Read a LOT!! Homework: One schoarship APP this week

Spend some of your time over break reading-- please! Help get your speed and fluency and comprehension up, up, up, in order to be up to the challenge of college reading expectations.
ALSO:
Bring back at least ONE MORE Scholarship Application that you have completely filled out during this time. Plus-- of course-- go to work and hang out with friends and visit with family and take at least a short trip away from your usual routine--TAKE A BREAK!

Reading for Life and Success

We are studying an article and exploring an idea: How much and how fast must we read for success in life?
Here is a copy of the article and a link to the Staples test it mentions-- how fast do you read?
Take the test!
Take this other one, too!

Six Week Grading Period

Here is a link the document you got from me that lists everything you need to submit for this six weeks-- many of you have a lot of these things done, but the check off list-- along with evidence for scholarship applications and your packet to give to letter of recommendation writers is due on THURSDAY, FEB. 25th.
Semester two requirements #1

Last Leg of the Race! Field Trip Cancelled!

Your speeches were absolutely fabulous! Thank you for sharing a piece of yourself with us!

Stuff to take care of announced in class: HERE
 Two Things You Have to Do!
Please be sure to get the worksheet from Mrs. Ingerson-- but you must complete three full scholarship applications each week. first check will be on Tuesday, February 16th, so please print out a copy of your completed applications by then.
HEY!
Fill out the information and gather the resources required to ask a staff member or other responsible person in your life (coach/boss/counselor/pastor) for a LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION for a scholarship.
You must have all of the stuff you need:
1- Resume that lists your accomplishments, employment and.awards (PEP has this stuff)
2- Answers to the questions on the "green sheet" :
   1- Describe some of your academic and life goals (include motivations)/ 2-List your three most distinguishing and best qualities and explain them fully/ 3-Describe the kind of student you are-- with examples/ 4- List two or three of your extracurricular activities-- with examples/ 5- Your life story (Ha, Ha!)-- at least ashort story that tells what is unique and special about it./ 6- which things would you like emphasized in the letter, and why? 
3- copy of your transcript
By Tuesday, February 16th

FIELD TRIP TO LEWIS AND CLARK IS CANCELLED.