Happenings For The Week
November 4
Congratulations to our FFA Team on being designated Silver Team
Monday
2- Hour Earlv Dismissal Schedule: School Starts at 7:54 a m
o Period 1: 8:00 - 8:38 (38 min)
o Period 2: 8:41 - 9:16 (35 min)
o Period 3: 9:19 -9:54 (35 min)
o Period 4: 9:57 - 11:18 (Lunch)
o First Lunch: 9:57 - 10:22
o Second Lunch: I0:25 - 10:50
o Third Lu nch: 10:53 - 11:18
o Period 5: 11:21 - 11:56 (35 min )
o Period 6: 11:59 - 12:35 (36 min)
Tuesday
Student permission slips for Tech Night are due to the Vocational Office no later than the end of the school day on Tuesday,11/5.
Our boys' soccer team qualified for the MIAA State Tournament. This is exciting news as they also are the Mayflower Athletic League Small Division Champions.
With their winning record they have been given a home game. Per MIAA Soccer Tournament rules, schools who do not have lights must begin play at 2pm to ensure the game is completed in daylight.
Our boys will be playing at 2pm at CCT on Tuesday, November 5th vs Sacred Heart
I feel we need to support our boys in their first home playoff game in over 15 years. I also feel we as a school community have been working hard and need some school pride to help build the community.
WEATHER DEPENDENT: We will as a school community offer the opportunity for students, staff and others to join us on the soccer field hill to cheer on our team. We will also make Tuesday a School Pride Day, so wear your maroon and gold Crusader attire.
Students will not necessarily be dismissed, but will be invited to join us on the hill at that time. We encourage students and staff to bring blankets to sit on for the game. We may run a shortened schedule on the day to ensure all classes have an equitable amount of time. I will also run an extra late bus so students can stay for the game. I will confirm with an email on Monday.
Otherwise congratulate the boys and GO CRUSADERS.
Potential Schedule: School Starts at 7:54 a m
o Period 1: 8:00 - 8:54 (54 min)
o Period 2: 8:57 - 9:48(51 min)
o Period 3: 9:51 -10:42 (51 min)
o Period 10:45 - 12:06 (Lunch)
o First Lunch: 10:45- 11:10
o Second Lunch: 11:13 - 11:38
o Third Lunch: 11:41 - 12:06
o Period 5: 12:09- 1:00 (51 min )
o Period 6: 1:03 - 1:56 (53 min)
Sixth Period Teachers will bring students out to the hill. Students should bring their bags and other materials. Students will be able to go to their bus/car/ride at 2:35.
Wednesday
Thursday
Tech Night
Just a reminder that student permission slips for Tech Night are due to the Vocational Office no later than the end of the school day on Tuesday,11/5. Communication from parents via phone call will not be accepted. Students in the building for Tech Night on Thursday afternoon without a filed permission slip will be sent home.
Tech Night Schedule
This is our biggest recruitment night for the year. If you need information about the night, pleae touch base with Kevin Furey: kfurey@capetech.us or stop by his office in Student Services.
Before 5:00 pm Please have hallway table set up and shops ready for tours
5:00 pm Dinner available for teachers and students helping at Tech Night
5:25 pm Teachers return to presentation areas to prepare for tours
5:30 pm First opening for Dinner
6:00 pm -8:00 pm Technical Areas and Academic Tables open to present to parents and students
All technology and electrical needs should be requested before Tuesday, November 5th. Those request go through Annie Dolan- Nile's office.
Friday
November Calendar
- November 7: Tech Night
- November 8: End of Tri 1 Maroon
- November 11 Veterans Day : School Closed
- November 13: Tenth Grade Parent Night
- November 14: ASVAB/ Advisory Dinner
- November 19: Parent Council and Financial Aid Night
- November 26– End of Tri 1 Gold
- November 27 ‐ 29 Thanksgiving Break
Financial Aid Night
For parents of seniors and juniors
When: Tuesday, November 19th
Time: 6-8pm
Location: Large Group Learning Center (LGLC) at Cape Cod Tech
Presenter: Sherry Andersen, financial aid director at Cape Cod Community College will present about-
- the nuts and bolts process of the FAFSA application (financial aid form)
- Give an overview of federal and state funds
- How aid eligibility is determined
Come with your questions ready! You don’t want to miss this!
Tuesday, Nov 19, 2019, 06:00 PM
Cape Cod Regional Technical High School, Pleasant Lake Avenue, Harwich, MA, USA
2019-2020 Literacy
As we enter the second half of the first trimester, we will again embark on our School Wide Writing. Mary Kew is the building resource for all literacy learning activities that you incorporate in your teaching. Please email her at mkew@capetech.us if you would like some support either finding resources, utilizing new strategies or just to bounce an idea off her to verify your thinking. She can support you as you instruct on this assignment. Also here is the link to the Literacy Resource Page, which is the landing page for all approved school wide strategies.
Here is the process for School Wide Writing:
Students will partake in a text-dependent writing assignment. This assignment will apply a close reading strategy such as FUNI Reading to a text, (journal article or other assigned reading that should coincide with what you are teaching) and then respond to a text-dependent question. A text-dependent question is a question that can only be answered by referring back to the text.
FUNI Reading is a strategy we utilize as a school community for students to read new text/content and be able to analyze and pull out important information from that source. This is called "close reading." Please find FUNI Reading guideline by clicking here. If you look at the attachment, it is broken down as symbols that students can use when reading new text to help them decipher information.
F= Familiar Information that the student knows. Students may recognize their own background knowledge and mark it in their text.
U= Unsure, students can note to themselves that they still have questions about what this is saying in the text
N= New information that the student did not know prior to reading the text
I (Underline/highlight) = Important information that contains main ideas of the text or may answer or help to answer the prompt/question
Amy McHugh in the Library is a great resource to help find articles that speak directly to what you are teaching. Please let her know what content you are covering and she will help you locate articles in professional journals or books that speak to that content. Her email is amchugh@capetech.us
Teachers should use our school wide writing response template if they are unsure of how they were going to tackle the writing. That writing response template can be found by clicking here. Teachers should utilize the School Wide Writing Rubric to assess their student work. Please click here for School Wide Writing w FUNI Rubric and click here for School Wide Writing Rubric Feedback Guide.
An administrator will want to see student work.Teachers should submit student samples to their supervisor within a week after the end of the trimester. However, if you wait until the end of the trimester to assign the writing it may not be the student’s best work. Please submit up to ten writing samples total that represent excellent, fair and inadequate writing done by your students. You could think of this in terms of A work, C work and F work, if that helps. Please do not submit all of your students' writing from this assignment.
Thank you and happy writing,
Billy