GRYPHON MISSION BRIEFING
For Friday, October 2, 2015 – “N” classes
2015-16 L&N Student Mission – Own it!
School Ops:
·
Students
remember we are viewing The Martian
from 8:30 – 11:30 this morning. There
have been 2 emails about the movie and Friday’s schedule, please refer back to
them for where to go and be. We expect
everyone, going and staying at school, to be model students for our school.
·
Be a
part of the L&N Swimming & Diving Team! Free two week trial
period starts next week ( Oct 5th - Oct 16th). Practices will be
held Monday, Tuesday & Thursday at Student Aquatics Center on UT
campus. Practice starts at 6:45 a.m. and end at 8:00
a.m. Dr. Bretscher will be riding the trolley back to school with
students. For more information or questions contact Dr.
Bretscher. Go Gryphon Aquatics!!
·
Good
luck to the Golfing Gryphons, who will play in the Regional tournament on
Monday!
· Mr. Bell is collecting supplies that
will be sent to aid a European refugee camp of 18,000 people. These
individuals will be facing winter in harsh conditions and need our help. We are
collecting winter clothes, coats, pants, long underwear, blankets, children's
diapers, and adult diapers. One Vision International will be sending a
large metal shipping container at the end of October. Mr. Bell will be
accepting donations in new or gently used condition until October 9th in Room
208.
· Hey students – did you know we have a
working branch of Y-12 Credit Union located in our school? If you are interested in
volunteering to work at the Y-12 student branch this year, pickup an
application from the folder outside Room 215. Please return to Mrs.
Griggs TODAY. Interviews will be conducted on Monday, October 5.
Community & Guidance Ops:
· Celebrate your freedom to read! September 27
through October 3, is the American Library Association’s Banned Books
Week. Our Library Media Center is encouraging students to pick up and read
a banned book. Part of our school promotion will take place on
Twitter, using the hashtag #LNShelfie. Please consider taking a
picture of yourself with a banned book and tweet it using that hashtag, as
well as the more universal tag #bannedbookshelfie. Or, if you
don't not want to post a shelfie (a picture of you with a book),
you could simply post a photo of the book with #bannedbooksweek and
#LNShelfie. Unsure of what books have been banned? Check out the links
below. So if you would like to participate, please tweet your shelfies
using the hashtags #LNShelfie and #BannedBooksWeek, or, if you
would like, you could email the photos straight to Mrs. Ellis. (Feel free
to stop by the Library Media Center to borrow a book if you do not own any
yourself.) There is also a reading flash mob scheduled from 3:00 – 4:00
on Market Square on Saturday, Oct 3.
Bring a chair and a book to read and join the read-in to celebrate that
you can!
List of Most Commonly Challenged
Classics - http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics
List of Most Commonly Challenged Books
in the Past Decade - http://www.ala.org/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009
· Need community service hours? Open Streets Knoxville is happening Sunday,
Oct 25th from 1 - 4 p.m., and we need a LOT of volunteers to make it a success.
Volunteers will get a free Open Streets Knoxville t-shirt. Go here to find out
more http://openstreetsknoxville.com/ or here to sign up: https://www.volunteersignup.org/TJ9LE
·
TN Promise will drop off books on November 10th
from 8:45 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. in the STEM Space. Students who plan to
participate in the TN Promise proceedings will be given a 10 minute overview of
the qualification process and mandatory attendance dates.
Quotes
of the day from Andy Weir, from The
Martian:
“Also, I have
duct tape. Ordinary duct tape, like you
buy at a hardware store. Turns out even
NASA can’t improve on duct tape.”
“I guess you
could call it a “failure”, but I prefer the term “learning experience”.”
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 – 2015)
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