Scholarships & Upcoming Schedule

Scholarships
Now that most of your college applications are finished it is time to focus on scholarships.  There are countless scholarships available to you; if you search for them.  I want you to make a goal of how many scholarships you would like to apply to each week.  This is your opportunity to make a lot of money for yourself.  The first scholarship I want you to apply for is the San Diego Foundation Common App.

Please go to San Diego Scholarship Foundation.  Please fill out the common application which will make you eligible for a large amount of scholarships.  Take a look at other individual scholarships if you are interested.

Continue to search Fastweb and Scholarships.com for more scholarships.  Now is the time that most scholarships will be made available.

Essay Contest
Essay and video contest with up to $2,000 in cash prizes.  Topic is what the American Dream means to you.  See details here

Exhibitions
Your first semester exhibitions will be a presentation on your research topic.  In a 10 minute presentation you will introduce your topic, present your thesis, discuss major points of your paper, and discuss your research.  Please see the following rubric to understand what will be expected of you.

Exhibitions will take place on January 12th and 14th.  A schedule for presentations will be distributed in the next few days.  If you have a valid reason (absence, etc.) one of those days will not workfor you please see me.

Finals Schedule
Finals will take place on January 16th, 21st, and 23rd.  As you can see they take place directly after exhibitions.  Plan your time wisely because you will be very busy during the month of January.  The schedule is not finalized yet but on those dates you will take your 3 finals.

English - You will be turning in your Catcher in the Rye essay on the final day of finals week which will serve as your final exam.  During the finals time you will be giving your independent reading book presentations.

Government - We will be doing an activity called 'philosophical chairs' where we will have an academic discussion on some of the issues we have written about in class.  There will be 3 groups of tables; pro, con, and undecided.  Students will sit at the appropriate table based on the topic and move around after hearing student arguments.  You will be scored based on participation and your responses.  Similar to how the Socratic seminar was scored.

Art History - There will be a timed short essay write.  I will give you a study guide containing many of the most important pieces you have learned about over the semester.  On the day of the final I will put some of those images up on the projector and you will write a short essay on the work of art.  Tell me everything you know about the piece including time period, artist, region, cultural significance, etc.  The more specific the answer the better the score.

As you can see you have a lot of work to do over the next few weeks.  Please plan ahead and do not procrastinate.  There will not be any sympathy at the end of the semester.  Remember, any D's or F's at the end of the semester will put you in serious danger of not graduating.

Independent Reading Books
Have your independent reading books ready by Friday.  You may have to do a lot of reading during winter break.  To avoid that problem stay on top of your reading and make sure you have your book with you everyday in class.

Catcher in the Rye
Remember to keep working on your Catcher in the Rye essay.  I know you have submitted an outline but stay focused and continue to work on them.  I expect a high quality essay with the amount of time you have.  I am keeping the outlines for ADA, if you submitted a written copy and need to see it please let me know.

MET Super Bowl
We will have our first ever MET Super Bowl of the Seniors vs. Juniors on January 30th.  Here are the rules.  Please let me know if you will be participating.  A team consists of 6 players and we will need 3 males and 3 females on the field at all times.

Prom Committee
Prom Committee meets today in our room at lunch to discuss the theme of Prom