GRYPHON MISSION BRIEFING
For Tuesday, February 3, 2015
“L” Day Classes
School Ops:
· Be sure to check out today’s testing schedule
below. Juniors are the ones testing but
your class may be displaced.
· Lost and Found -
Please check for clothing and lunch boxes in the commons on the black wire
racks or in the Depot between the two sets of entry doors on the main level.
Small items or items of value (electronics, jewelry, wallets) are turned in at
the front desk in the main office. We
will be donating uncollected items in the next couple weeks – don’t lose your
stuff completely!
· Driver's Permit
Requirements - A full list of Driver's Permit requirements can be found on our
website under announcements. Remember, state law requires a proof of attendance
form (SF 1010 Form). To obtain a SF-1010 Form, email our school social
worker, Hillary Keith at least 3 days prior to your test
date. She is only in our school Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Her email
address is hillary.keith@knoxschools.org
· The AP
Statistics classes are in need of data and input from the student
body. Please see the survey opportunities below if you'd like to help in
their data collection.
o
Help out a student's research about high school student's attitudes
about feminism! Take the survey here. Email s739155@student.knoxschools.org
if you have questions.
o Here is another short survey, about young
adult fiction! Email s728759@student.knoxschools.org or s028925@student.knoxschools.org
for more information or if you have questions.
·
We will be having tennis tryouts Wednesday
immediately after school at Tyson Park tennis complex. Everything should get
going by 5:00pm
Please be sure to bring your physical along
with proper clothing & tennis racquet. We will have plenty of tennis balls.
The length of the tryout will be determined by how many students show up. We
will be taking 8 boys & 8 girls on the tennis team. Direct questions to Coach Orrick at Joshua.orrick@knoxschools.org
·
Do you have cardboard boxes you want to get
rid of? Do you have old(clean) T-shirts you don't need? Design
Thinking III is in need of build materials. Specifically, they need cardboard
and T-shirts. Please deliver materials to Mr. Jones.
·
HUGE CONGRATS to our swimming and diving
Gryphons! They really shook things up
this weekend at the KISL Championships when they won BOTH Boys and Girls Diving
Titles and took Third place overall Swimming, beating out traditional
powerhouses and coming in only behind two established giants (HVA and
Farragut). Alli Lapps set a new
meet record for one of her events, and our boys’ diving took 1st, 2nd,
3rd, AND 4th place– way to dominate the competition
guys! The state swim meet is here in
Knoxville next weekend. Plan now to come
out and support our swimmers and divers Friday night and Saturday!!
·
Congratulations to L&N’s Ethics Bows
team consisting of Kaitlyn Armstrong, Chase Compton, Justin Cross, Madeline
Lonas, and Bailey Morgan for taking 2nd place in the 6th
annual Ethics Bowl this past Saturday! The UT Center For The Humanities and Department
of Philosophy hosted the event at the University Center where 15 teams from the
East Tennessee area competed. In addition to professors from the University,
judges included state Senator Becky Massey and Police Chief David Rausch. The
L&N team made up of Mattie Collins, Taylor Flores, Jentry Jones, Hayden
Marshall, and Taylor Smith only narrowly missed also making the 3 team
final championship round. Mr. Webb would like to commend all these students for
representing our school extremely well and bravely presenting their views and
convictions in this challenging forum for exchanging ideas.
·
Teens for Christ has resumed meeting this
winter on Monday mornings in the Depot before school.
·
Walk into a winter wonderland on February
7th to enjoy one of the best nights of the year. Join SGA for the first annual
L&N STEM Academy winter formal. Tickets
are $10 for an individual, and $18 for a couple. They will be sold this week!
Suggested attire is semi formal (which usually means a nice dress for
girls and a shirt and tie or suit for guys). You won't want to miss the chocolate
fountain and a fun night of dancing.
·
Tune into your local PBS TV station at 5:30
on Tuesday to watch students from the L&N Scholar’s Bowl Team compete at
the 31st annual East TN PBS Scholar’s Bowl! Go Gryphons!
Research Ops:
· Rising Student
and parent Night (9th, 10th, and 11th grades) + Dual
Enrollment Information Session: February 5th 5:30-6:15. Dual
Enrollment 6:15-7p General overview of high school expectations and course
catalog review to make informed schedule requests for next year, followed by an
informational session regarding Dual Enrollment from the Pellissippi
representative .
Community Ops:
· Until Feb 15th
there will be a collection container in the front office where you are
encouraged to bring in any clean, wearable, used jeans. The retail
company Aéropostale is sponsoring a competition among high schools to bring in
jeans for distribution at homeless shelters locally and around the
country. There is a grand prize of $5000 for the top four schools’
donations – plan now to contribute – all sizes!
· Please bring in
peanut butter – any kind – to contribute to the annual Knox County PTA peanut
butter drive for Second harvest food bank.
You can also bring in money – Mr. Powell has an envelope to collect at
the front office.
· High school
summer abroad programs available with scholarships to offset the costs.
Go to www.ciee.org/high-school-summer-abroad for info.
Quote of the day from Vesta Kelly:
Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look at what
they can do when they stick together.
Practice
L&N Habits every day: Collaboration, Critical thinking, Design, Innovation,
Inquiry, & Professionalism
L&N STEM
Academy – TN’s First Apple School of Distinction, 2-time TN Reward School for
Performance (2012 – 2014)
TODAY’S TESTING SCHEDULE
Blended Learning or any other
classes that meet in the Commons need to move elsewhere or work SILENTLY during
testing times!!!
11th
Grade:
Tuesday, February 3rd: L1 and L2
Wednesday, February 4th: N1 and N2
Make-ups: Thursday,
February 5th: L1 and L2 in Media Center
Tuesday, February 3rd:
L Day Classes during L1 and L2
|
English Class
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Testing Room
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Displaced
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Cartwright’s L2 (31)
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104 (add two
laptops)
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L1 STEM 4 to Commons (quiet!)*
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Norton’s L1 (16) & L2 (20)
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Media Center
(add 12 laptops/4 desks)
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None
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Accommodations Testing: R.A. (1)
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Conference Room (1
laptop)
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Turpin to cover L1 Study Skills
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