Dear Parents,

Greetings from the Habanero teachers. We have two weeks left in the 1st Quarter. Please continue using Parent Connect to keep current on your student's progress.

Here the agenda for the rest of the week.

ACCELERATED ENGLISH: Receive Portfolio Rubric Requirements. View Movie "And Then There Were None". Quiz Wednesday. Memoir Revisions due Friday. Thursday/Friday: Library Project on A Tale of Two Cities.

ENGLISH: Receive Portfolio Rubric Requirements. View Movie "And Then There Were None". Quiz Wednesday.Thursday/Friday: Portfolio Work. Portfolio due Monday 10/29

HISTORY: Monday & Tuesday: Last of the Mohicans Movie. Wednesday: British Acts & Taxes. Thursday: Two Stories of the Boston Massacre. Friday: British Acts & Taxes. EOC Essay on Tuesday, October 30.

ACCELERATED HISTORY: Monday: Last of the Mohicans Movie. Tuesday: Watch Movie and British Acts and Taxes. Wednesday: Two Stories of Boston Massacre. Thursday: British Acts and Taxes Part 2. Friday: Lexington and Concord.

PHYSICAL SCIENCE: Gravity. Newton's Laws of Motion. Mini-Mystery Question Due Wednesday, "How much would you weigh in the center of the earth?"

PRE-ALGEBRA: Adding or Subtracting Rational Numbers & Integers

ALGEBRA: Solving Inequalities

GEOMETRY: Quiz over 3.1-3.3 Monday. Medians, Altitudes, Auxiliary Lines. Overlapping Triangles. Angle-Side Theorems.

SPEECH: Capital City Communicators contest begins. Students write an essay about why communication is important - due Nov. 9th. See handouts the kids bring home. The rest of the week we are studying group communication. Wednesday - Chapter 5 questions due. Thursday - leadership notes and activity. Friday - Group Conflict Resolution assignment - due Friday.

FROM THE COUNSELOR THIS WEEK:
I will begin to include notes from my desk for you to consider while our teams give you all this great information, I will pass on some FYI's also!

1. During ISAT's I met with every student to discuss his/her progress report and a general check in with all. The 9th grade year is starting off well! If you have a concern about grades and/or performance, please contact me to schedule a parent, student, and team meeting during our team time.

2. Reminder - If you are seeing missing work or ???the homework you are seeing at home - here are some resources for assisting your child with this process at home:
Step one: Log on to the north website and find the Teachers Website under FACULTY & STAFF icon. This will give you the agenda and expectations. You can cross reference this information with your child's agenda to make sure this information is getting recorded in the tracker.

Step two: Log on to PARENT CONNECT - follow the instruction detailed on the North Webpage under PARENT CONNECT -- you must use the "ASSIGNMENT" pencil and then click the "SCHEDULE" button to get to the live gradebooks -- if you are hitting the "GRADES" pencil, you are not getting to the most up-to date grade info -- If you have questions beyond what it detailed on the web, contact me on the phone or Julie McCabe in the front office. Remember - this is not just for you!! it is also STUDENT CONNECT :) -- yes, have your child connect into this!

Step three: Setting a place and time to do homework is best and supports a predictable routine, good study habits, and an "expected "in your home.

If you have any questions with this -- let me or the team/teacher know and we would be happy to assist.

3. Parent/Teacher Conferences are coming up - details on the North website at http://www.boiseschools.org/schools/north/ please plan on attending and visiting with every teacher -- this is your only opportunity to do this for the year and gives you a time to check in on every class. We look forward to visiting with you about your student -- if more time is needed than what we have that evening, we can schedule a follow up time. Check your mail for information regarding PTConferences.

4. Many students have come to see me with an "invite" from a scholarship company called Edifi-College Financial Aid Services. There is no-cost for your initial meeting and if they are going to do this for free - great! If they want some $$ after the initial meeting, I would be cautious. All the scholarship information and financial aid information will be provided to you through the BOISE HIGH Career Counselor and you have access to him, his knowledge, his guidance and resources --- for free. If you have ??about this opportunity, email me and I can help guide you through this.

5. I will be going into the classroom the next few weeks and presenting lessons on: "C-Core and GPA" - having students understand graduation requirements and calculating GPA and CCore; "Taking Risks" - discussing positive and negative Risks.