Warrior Weekly
Winter Break Edition
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Second Semester Begins January 4, 2022
Yearbook Senior Ads due January 1st
The Smithville Warrior Yearbook Senior Ads are due no later than January 1st. Our yearbooks will also go up in price on December 31st. Be sure to place your orders before the new year! Visit www.yearbookforever.com to place your order or email Mrs.Finch at finchd@smithville.k12.mo.us.
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Danielle M. Finch
Smithville Media Network Adviser
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Attendance Letters
Parents,
Attendance letters are going home over the Christmas break.
Please remember if you have been contacted by school personnel or have extenuating circumstance (i.e. long-term illness, etc.) please regard this letter as informational only.
Part-time Jobs for Students
OPAA Food Management and Smithville School District are hiring part time student workers. OPAA duties would include dishwashing, food prepping, front line serving and table washing.
Smithville School District duties would be custodial - cleaning classrooms, delivering items, replenishing supplies - as well as other possible duties.
Please see Dr. Marchetti for more information or with any questions.
Masks are still required on all school buses per a Federal mandate.
Swim Results from 12/11/21
The girls swim and dive team competed in the Winnatonka Holiday Invite over the weekend. The girls placed 18th out of 32 teams. Here are the highlights.
To start off the meet, Ava Robbins placed 12th in diving on Friday.
The first event of Saturday’s swim session was the 200 medley relay of Megan Denney, Marie Peach, Izzy Sapp, and Elyse Hart. They placed 22nd.
Izzy Sapp placed 10th in the 200 IM and 8th in the 500 freestyle. Both times are state consideration times and her time in the 500 is a new school record; her second of the season.
Abbie Parr placed 29th in the 200 freestyle and 38th in the 100 backstroke.
Lizzie Palmer placed 30th in the 100 backstroke and 38th in the 200 freestyle.
Marie Peach placed 46th in the 100 breaststroke while dropping 7 seconds from her best time.
The 200 freestyle relay of Bayley Freeman, Elli Harpenau, Megan Denney, and Marie Peach finished 24th.
For their first high school meet, Audrey Rice, Brianna Montano, and Hannah Garcia all swam the 50 free.
Ellie Hirner also swam the 50 free, dropping 6 seconds from her best time.
Elyse Hart, Ainsley Foster, Bayley Freeman, and Ava Hraban all swam the 100 freestyle for the first time.
To finish off the weekend, the 400 freestyle relay consisting of Megan Denney, Abbie Parr, Lizzie Palmer, and Izzy Sapp placed 14th.
Success for SHS Warrior Archers
The HS Warrior Archers competed in the 3rd annual Warrior Battle on Saturday 12/11 here at home. This was the first tournament of the season. They represented us with great Warrior strength.
Raven Brown took 1st place in HS girls & qualified for state. Laney Cole -- new to the team this year -- took 4th in HS girls & Keely Lewis rounded out the top 10 & took 9th in HS girls. Congratulations Warrior Archery!
Lunch Locations for Second Semester
Due to trash and lunch trays being left around the building every day, beginning 2nd semester, all students will be required to stay in the cafeteria during lunch. No students are allowed to sit outside or in the PAC lobby or in the restrooms, or any other locations outside of the cafeteria.
When students are in the cafeteria, they need to ask the lunchroom supervisors to leave the cafeteria for any reason. Additionally the restrooms that are to be used during lunch are right off of the cafeteria, across from the gymnasium.
Thank you,
The Smithville High School Administrative Team
Notes from the Nurse
Parents who call in to release a student who isn't feeling well will be redirected to the Nurse.
Warrior of the Week Nominations
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Student Absence Regulations
Students participating in sports and activities who miss time during the school day must provide a doctor’s note to excuse the time missed to be allowed to participate in practice or a game that evening.
Students who miss a full day of school are not allowed to attend after school activities that day.
Upcoming College Rep Visits
January 11 - Navy Recruiter
January 13 - Marine Recruiter
February - Navy Recruiter
February 10 - Marine Recruiter
Words of the Week - What's the difference between 'historic' and 'historical'?
What to Know
Historic and historical can be interchangeable, but have taken on separate roles in most use cases. "Historical" is used as the general term for describing history, such as "historical society," while "historic" is usually reserved for important and famous moments in history such as "a historic battle." Concerning using "a" vs. "an," either is fine, but "a" is more common.
'A' vs. 'An'
Historic and historical: what a pair. First off, there's the question of whether to use a or an before them. Both a and an are used, but a is far more common—as much as four times more common in American English, by some measurements—which is what you'd expect for a word that, like habit and hero, begins with an audible \h\.
So why do some people say "an historic" and "an historical"? Well, historic and historical differ from habit and hero in a crucial way. They have their accented, or stressed, syllable second, not first. It used to be that an initial "h" was not pronounced in many such words, which is how "an historic" and "an historical" came to be used in the first place. Both words are now, however, typically pronounced with an audible \h\. (A vs. an can be tricky: in fact, we've written an entire article about it.)
As for which word to use where, the answer is similarly complicated.
Historic vs. Historical Usage
The two words are at their core simply variants, but over 400-plus years of use, they've mostly settled (emphasis on "mostly") into distinct roles. Historical is the typical choice for the broad and general uses relating to history. It's the one used to modify words like museum and society, and it's the one found in contexts like these:
… how much did Shakespeare's "Henry V" have to do with the historical monarch who fought the battle of Agincourt? — Andrew O'Hehir, Salon, 7 Oct. 2015
George Washington, who has been cited as the first American to have made historical note of the avocado, wrote of encountering "agovago pairs" on a trip to Barbados in 1751. — Andrea Nguyen, Saveur, August/September, 2007
Historic is most commonly used for something famous or important in history:
It has been billed the most historic and oldest regatta in the county…. — Sue DeWerff, Florida Today, 16 May 2013
Nestled in the country's southwest border alongside Switzerland and France, Baden stretches from Lake Constance's glistening shores along the brooding Black Forest to historic Heidelberg. — Anne Krebiehl, Wine Enthusiast, February 2014
People who write about matters such as these tend to pretend that the differentiation is more absolute than it is; there are, in fact, instances to be found in which skilled writers apply one word where the other is typically found, and vice versa. Still, the distinction outlined above is a good one to follow if you want to communicate efficiently with your reader.
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