SHS Weekly Newsletter
October 26, 2020
Message from the Principal, Lisa Maguire, Ed.D.
Last week, Superintendent Burkhead shared a Sailor Shoutout for senior Abby Spires and her Peace Flag Project! Abby is now sharing her flags at SHS. You can learn more about the project here. We are excited to have a Peace Flag displayed outside the main office!
Last Wednesday, students had a chance to watch the club fair video in H Block. Thanks to all club members and advisors who worked to put the video together. We are excited to have students participate in extracurricular clubs and activities. This is the time to get involved! With COVID-19, clubs will be running activities remotely, but it is just as important to get involved this way, and connect with peers, pursue passions, and become active in the school community.
For those of you who missed the club fair video, or for others at home, it can be viewed here! To join a club, email the advisor, who will share the meeting schedule and access information. A list of all clubs and advisors can be found on the high school website here.
Upcoming Dates:
11/3/20: Election Day/No School
11/5/20: Family & Caregiver Coffee Hour, 10 a.m., Zoom
11/9/20 and 11/13/20: Picture Retakes 12:00-3:30; Cohort C may come after school for pictures (Enter at the CPA Lobby Doors)
11/10/20: NHS Induction 5 p.m. for inductees only; CPA (note: date change)
11/18/20: End of Quarter 1
11/23/20: Report Cards Issued
12/3/20: Parent-Teacher Conferences, 6-8 p.m.
Scituate High School Presents: One Story, One Community
•WHO: Anyone!
•WHAT: A discussion of Grace Talusan’s (pictured right) short story “The Book of Life and Death”
•WHERE: Zoom
•WHEN: Tuesday, November 17th, from 6:30pm – 7:30pm
•HOW: Register through this link – We’ll need your email address to set up breakout discussion groups.
•WHY: To come together as a community and to discuss what the story teaches us about ourselves, about others, about the world, and about our place in it
Click here to download the story, which is available in multiple languages and as an audio version read by the author!
Do Not Enter- One way on campus!
From the Assistant Principals Luette (9&10) and Hughes (11&12)
Wednesdays are a good time to take advantage of teachers' extra help and a time to connect for review. In addition, if your grades warrant it, teachers will be asking students to meet during specific times on Wednesday. If a teacher asks a student to connect, this is not an optional meeting; it is an extension of class and connection time to help support a student. Please help your students to self-advocate for appointment time, reach out to teachers when needing help outside of Wednesdays, and to adhere to the request by teachers as needed. Teachers are here to help, and students, Wednesday time is school time, too!
Model UN
SHORE grant in action!
Students have been working with their art teachers on documenting their art portfolios for the college application process this week, applying for scholarships, and creating web-sites now that our computers, purchased through a SHORE grant, are up and running. Ms. Pace's student Emma Wood (pictured here) has been working on her portfolio all week and has already learned how to make high resolution photographs, bounce light, upload, edit, and create her own website. This is going to make her an excellent candidate for the schools she will be applying to this year.
Thank you again SHORE!
Fine Arts
Memory Project 2020: Scituate to Syria
For the past several years SHS Art teacher, Ms. Hickey, has helped coordinate the participation of SHS student artists in The Memory Portrait Project. This Link will take you to portraits created as gifts and expressions of kindness and friendship for these children in Syria made this year, 2020. COVID-19 may have delayed the delivery of these portraits but it has not stopped it; the originals will be hand delivered later this fall!
Math
The fun of composite functions is real in PreCalculus class. In person and remote learners are relating graphs to the functions with the help and support of the their teachers, peers, technology and the more traditional math tools such as pencil and paper.
Some students in grade 10 Geometry will be connecting math to the children's storybook, using the well-known, “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” by Laura Numeroff. The book is written with “if, then” conditional statements so this is a great way to help our high school student's recreate their own books using their newly acquired knowledge. Students will share their books in a digital format for their classmates to see.
Beyond the Paper Airplane: Mathematics with Origami, How to Break Rules in Math, The Mathematics of Pokemon, these are just a few of the courses offered at SPLASH hosted by MIT. It’s not too late to register for a chance to explore some exciting virtual classes through MIT .Students who have participated in the past have been very pleased with their experiences. Check out this Splash link for more information.
Science
A huge thanks to the Scituate Education Foundation who funded our purchase of two brand new 3-D printers for the engineering program! They arrived this week and one is already up and printing. These printers are an enormous addition to our toolkit and we’re excited to see our students’ designs brought to reality.
Social Studies
The Massachusetts Framework in History begins "The primary purpose of a history ... education is to prepare students to have the knowledge and skills to become thoughtful and active participants in a democratic society and a complex world."
This week, as a part of their study of the impact of the 13 colonies on different groups of people, imperialism's profits and costs, and the compromises involved in the ratification of the Constitution, students are learning about voting in Scituate, how the electoral college works, and presidential candidates decisions on how and where to campaign. In addition, students learn about causes and effects of events in the past, then compare them to issues facing our nation today. As an example, Ms. Doremus' AP US History Class students are whether Andrew Carnegie's commitment to charitable acts justifies the harsh conditions faced by his workers.