GRYPHON MISSION BRIEFING
For Tuesday, December 13, 2016 – “L”
day
L&N Student Mission – #Own it!
School Ops:
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Did you remember to have parents sign your
mid-term exam dismissal slip? Bring it
to any teacher this week or you won’t be able to leave on half days next week!
Mid-terms start this Thursday, for L3 & L4 – be ready – one last strong
effort and then you can take a break!
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Happy holidays from SGA! Next week, SGA
will be delivering candy grams and holiday cards to your Friday advisory!
For $1 you can send a candy cane to one of your friends, and for $2 you
can send a holiday card! Send both for just $2.50! You can also get a
$5 ticket to the Friday Holiday Advisory where we will be
providing snacks, drinks, and playing The Polar Express! Come to the commons
during lunch to get in on these hot holiday offers!"
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It’s here! Winter Wonder week! Sponsored by your SGA – plan to participate
and blow off steam while you give that last week’s push to the end of the
semester!
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Day/Date
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Activity
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Tues, 12/13
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Holiday Color Day: Students wear
colors of the holiday they wish to represent or other holiday paraphernalia.
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Wed, 12/14
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Winter Sweater Day: Students wear festive sweaters
whether they are tacky or just spirited.
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Thurs, 12/15
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Hat Day: Wear your favorite festive hat to
celebrate your holiday season.
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Fri, 12/16
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Holiday Movie Character Day: Students dress up as characters from their favorite
holiday movie
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Plan now to attend our Musical Gryphons
Winter Concert tonight, December 13, at 7:00 p.m. at the Knoxville Convention
Center. Admission is free. Come and bring your friends!
· Hey students! We hear Santa is
working on his Nice and Naughty list! Want to be sure your teacher ends
up on his list and has to serve time in Santa’s “naughty cell” in the Commons area
on Tuesday, Dec 13? It’ll cost you – and all the proceeds will go to
help our SECME group go on a college tour this spring! Before school on Friday, Monday, or Tuesday,
come to the Commons red brick “jail” area and fill out a naughty list nomination
from the “most wanted teachers” posters you’ll see for whom you wish to see in
the Cell in the Commons on 12/13. Reach out to your friends to raise more
money and increase the sentence!
Here’s how it works:
o
To put
your teacher in the Naughty Cell in the Commons will cost $1 per minute, up to
the length of your class period (up to 80 minutes).
o
For
“sentences” of 30 minutes or less, a sub will come to your class while your
teacher serves his/her time. For “sentences” of 31 – 80 minutes, the
class will report to the Commons while the teacher serves his/her sentence.
o
Due to
space, we have to limit to no more than 3 teachers able to “serve sentence” at
any one time.
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All
funds must be contributed by the start of school on Tuesday so the sentence can
be verified by administration, who reserve the right to return funds if the
sentence cannot be carried out for any reason.
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You
also have the chance to nominate your teacher for the “nice list!” Get on their good side by contributing $1 for
every 2 minutes to get out of their sentence!
Teachers will be notified how much was raised to put them in the cell
and how much was raised to get them out!
· Hey everybody! Prom
committee will be selling single prom tickets in the commons for $40 now
through December 21st. This is the lowest price of the year! Don’t wait,
after Winter Break the prices go up!
Community & Guidance Ops:
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PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 8/9 online score
reports are now available to students. Visit psat.org/scorereport to see
yours today! Videos, presentations, and other resources have been posted
on the School Counseling page of STEM's website under the "Test Prep and
Test Info" tab on the left side of the screen. Resources for the
PSAT/NMSQT can also be accessed directly by visiting: https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt-psat-10.
Resources for the PSAT 8/9 can be accessed here: https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/psat-8-9/scores.
Paper copies of scores will be distributed to students during lunch as
the school receives them. Please feel free to contact sarah.salerno@knoxschools.org
if you have further questions after exploring these resources.
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ACT
invites students to join them for a free online event to help prepare for
the ACT– a live session covering all four subject areas on the ACT test.
ACT expert instructors will outline the most commonly tested
concepts on the ACT and provide an overview of the powerful interactive
instruction available through ACT®Kaplan® Online
Prep Live. Students may bookmark this page: http://onlinepreplive.com/ and plan
on joining ACT on the above date. If they can’t make the live event, check back
later for a free on-demand recording of the presentation.
Quotes
of the day in honor of our Music Showcase Concert tonight:
From Leonard Bernstein:
This will be our reply to violence:
to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever
before.
From Bono (lead singer for U2):
Music can change the world because
it can change people.
Practice
L&N Habits every day: Professionalism, Critical Thinking, Collaboration,
Innovation, Inquiry, & Design
L&N STEM Academy – TN’s First Apple School of
Distinction, US News & World Report
Gold Medal 2016, Newsweek’s Top 500
“Beating the Odds” school
Mid-term Exam and end
of semester schedule:
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Exams/ last day to meet L3 & L4 -
Thurs, Dec 15
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Exams/ last day to meet N3 & N4 -
Fri, Dec 16
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Exams/ last day to meet M1, 2, 3, 4,
Monday, Dec 19
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Only meet L1 & L2 - Tues, Dec 20
- dismiss at 12:36 p.m. (with permission).
Limited breakfast and lunch service.
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Only meet N1 & N2 - Wed, Dec 21 -
dismiss at 12:36 p.m. (with permission).
Limited breakfast and lunch service.
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Make-up day - Thurs, Dec 22 – only
students with appointments to make up work should be here on 12/22. No cafeteria service at all.
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