SHS Spartan News
Week of May 25th, 2020
Happy Memorial Day
SHS May/June School Calendar
Student Item Drop Off and Pick Up
Summer Reading
Summer 2020
Dear Students, Parents, and Community Members:
Our Department of English extends to each family wishes for continued health and safety. To best meet the emotional and educational needs of our students, we are conducting a modified summer reading assignment this year.
We are beginning the summer reading work on June 2, using the last two weeks of school to give students an opportunity to engage in and perhaps finish the work. Students in grade10 Honors and grades 11 and 12 Advanced Placement classes have separate reading requirements which are also modified and become open to work during English class on June 2.
This yearβs theme is connecting to and living American history. We ask students to examine essential questions surrounding the American story and look towards how history will be written about our individual and collective COVID-19 experiences. Students will view a self-selected documentary film from the list provided. They will then choose two pieces from the accompanying Literature Shelf with which to work. Students will use these two pieces and the documentary chapter to complete a provided organizer in preparation for the September writing prompt. Students will also be asked to consider their own COVID-19 experiences as voices of the futureβs retrospective on this time.
As always, we depend upon all of you to make our summer reading program a success; we thank you in advance for your help and support. Please contact me at ruth.trainor@scituateschoolsri.net if you have any questions. Have a wonderful summer!
Sincerely,
Ruth C. Trainor
Department of English, Chairwoman
Attachments
RIIL Twitter Spirit Challenge
We Love Our Seniors (Updated May 25th)
Senior Awards
Town Door Decorating Contest
Virtual 2020 Art Show
Yearbook Update
To keep people safe we will be doing electronic signing for the yearbook. Anyone that ordered a yearbook will get a code. You send the codes to teachers, friends, family, anyone you want to sign your yearbook. Then you print the pages out. More Information of Friday
If anyone forgot to order a yearbook. There is a few extra. Email Mrs. Terceira scituate.ybc@gmail.com
Advanced Course Network Now Open for Registration
2020-2021 ACN registration opens Monday, May 4 and runs through Friday, May 29. Enrollment is first come, first served, and some courses do fill up quickly.
FAFSA Scituate HS is 28 students away from reaching 100%
FAFSA Completion Resources
FAFSA completion is critical to help students access money for college, including through opportunities like The Rhode Island Promise, Federal Pell grants, and other scholarships and work study opportunities.
- Access the FAFSA portal (learn how to get access) to see which students are close to completion.
- Monitor your schoolβs progress towards the 70% completion goal via the dashboard at any time.
- College Crusade can assist all seniors in R.I. who are not enrolled in their program. To schedule an appointment with a College Crusade adviser, email fafsa@thecollegecrusade.org or text the word FAFSA to 95577.
- The College Planning Center can help any family in Rhode Island who needs support with filling out the FAFSA form. To schedule an appointment with the College Planning Center, email scrooks@cpcri.org, call 401-736-3170, text "FAFSA" to 24000 or go to CollegePlanningCenter.org.
- Schools can help support this effort by reaching out to families and sending out the FAFSA Toolkit.
- More information about all these resources can be found at www.prepare-ri.org/fafsa.
Supporting Teens in Reducing their Stress
Attention Juniors!
From RI Dept. of Education:
To provide an opportunity to the current 11th grade students who were unable to participate in the SAT School Day administration this year, RIDE and the College Board scheduled an administration for the SAT with Essay for October 14, 2020 with a make-up date of October 28, 2020. This administration of the SAT with Essay will be open to all students who will be in 12th grade in September 2020. RIDE will continue to keep the field informed of any changes that may occur due to COVID-19.
Great teaching and learning continues in Distance Learning
From Music
On Monday May 25th at 12pm I invite you to go on your front lawn or porch and play the Star Spangled Banner, immediately followed by TAPs. Video your performance and upload it to your Scituate music teacher.
In addition to submitting your video, please post your video to your facebook or instagram account with:
#RIMemorialDay, #RIMusicians1000Strong, #RIMEA Many students throughout the state are doing this! Remember to tag @spartanprideri
You may edit your video and only send me a portion of it if you choose to. All the music can be found on the RIMEA homepage or in your google classwork from an earlier post. Have fun with this and maybe your video submission will get you into the larger video with other students throughout the state, being created by RIMEA.
Social Studies
Summer School 19-20
Driver's Education
Staff Directory
Updated 2020-2021 School Calendar
Non-Discrimination
The Scituate School Department has released an updated non-discrimination policy. Please note that our Scituate High School 2018-2019 student and parent handbook was printed before the new statement was released. Therefore, the non-discrimination policy in this year's handbook is out of date. The current policy with updates is as follows:
The Scituate School Department does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, religion, national origin, color, creed, political affiliation or disability in any of its educational programs and activities, and in employment and application for employment, as required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and other federal and state laws that prohibit discrimination. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies: Equal Employment Officer, P.O. Box 188, North Scituate, Rhode Island 02857, Telephone: (401) 647-4100; Email: EEO@ScituateSchoolsRI.net. You may also direct inquiries directly to: Office for Civil Rights (Boston Office), U.S. Department of Education, 8th Floor, 5 Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02109-3921, Telephone: (617) 289-0111; Facsimile: (617) 289-0150; Email: OCR.Boston@ed.gov. If you require an accommodation to attend a meeting or program at a school, call the Equal Employment Officer at least two business days in advance of the meeting or program.