MARYSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
BULLDOG SNAPSHOT
November 2013
English - Mr. Cook
Seniors: The seniors in Advanced Composition I
have been preparing for the Mock Interview day
on November 12th. We’ve been focusing on
writing a proper cover letter to be attached to a
resume and job application.
The seniors have also just finished reading
the novel 1984 and are working on their literary
analysis, focusing on one aspect of the novel and
analyzing its importance.
On the horizon is a unit on persuasive and
argumentative writing. We’ll be taking a look at
how arguments are formed and the most
effective ways to make them.
Sophomores: The sophomores have been
reading the memoir “The Glass Castle” and will
soon be using the material found in the book as
the basis for a persuasive essay about whether
people should have to have a license to be a
parent. We’ll be seeing lots of strong opinions
with this assignment! On the horizon will be a
research project focusing on unsolved mysteries.
This project will get the kids re-accustomed to
the research process we teach in the district with
a focus on paraphrasing and citing sources.
Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)
Mrs. Kracht
Marysville will be represented at the
National Fall FBLA Leadership Conference in
Dallas, Texas November 7-9 by six FBLA
students: Stormy Middleton, Megan Skeen,
Lauren Hawkinson, Maddy Moore, Emily
Meinhardt, Maddie Ellenbecker, and adviser
Lynn Kracht. While there, the team will take part
in leadership and career workshops and listen to
several motivational keynote speakers.
Senior Mock Interview & Career Workshop
On Tuesday, November 12, all seniors will
participate in a mock interview and attend
career workshops at MHS. Business men and
women from several local businesses will be
here to present on topics such as "Taking
Initiative and Getting Ahead," "Being a Leader in
Your Community," Social Media Do's and Don'ts,"
"Writing Thank You Letters," and many others.
Students will also get their resumes, cover
letters, and job applications analyzed while they
practice interviewing. This project is being
directed by Lynn Kracht, Brian Cook, David Heyd,
Jenny Thayer-Wood, and Lanny Carpenter.
English – Mrs. Dittmar
Freshman English: We are almost to the end of
Ray Bradbury’s novel, Something Wicked This
Way Comes and will soon be working on final
projects that will illustrate student
understanding of the themes in that book.
Students may design a board game, create a
model, a PowerPoint, an essay, or a poem that
shows some aspect of the setting, characters,
plot, or themes.
We have also begun reading The Odyssey
by Homer. This epic poem is included in the
literature anthology. We are comparing the
traits of today’s super heroes to Odysseus to see
how they match up. There are also some
interesting movie clips from the Burt Lancaster
movie to give students help imagining the action.
Debate & Argumentation: Students are
learning the skills necessary to develop logical
arguments using credible sources, supporting
data & testimony, and making solid links
between that data and the claim they are making.
We are currently researching renewable energy.
Mass Media: Students are putting the finishing
touches on newspaper projects. After studying
the style and content of journalistic writing &
dissecting local daily newspapers, students have
created newspapers set in a future time—at least
MASS MEDIA CONTINUED: 20 years into the
future. They are writing news stories, editorials,
sports features, classified ads and display ads for
that time. Once written, the materials are laid
out on a large sheet of newsprint paper, folded
into four pages to create front page, sports page,
op/ed page and advertising. Since most of the
students never read any paper beyond the
Marysville Advocate, this is foreign territory. It
is a good chance for them to get acquainted with
a different side of the media.
Band November Snapshot – Mr. Wood
Popular Music Lab prepared a touching
performance for the Veteran’s Day Program
incorporating a PowerPoint slideshow with a
song about triumph over adversity.
Even though MHS does not have a string
program, two students were selected into the
North Central KMEA Honor Orchestra. Bryclin
Alstrom will play cello and Mark Lattner will
play string bass at the December 7 concert in
Manhattan. ShayeAlta Naaf is the alternate bass
clarinet player for the NC KMEA Honor Band.
The MHS Marching Band earned a 2
rating at the Central States Marching Festival in
Manhattan October 19th. Now the band has
shifted gears and is preparing for the 6-12
Winter Band Concert on December 6.
YOGOWYPI – Mrs. Crowther
YOGOWYPI recognized two students from each
grade level 9-12 who were nominated by
teachers as “Student of the 9-weeks.”
Qualifications for this recognition are exhibiting
exemplary student behaviors and demonstrating
a strong effort in class. These students and a
friend of their choice were treated to a lunch
with the principal.
9th: Danielle Ahern and Jim Borgerding
10th: Lela Chaudhry and Mitchell Schoenberger
11th: Miranda Cain and Jerod Prebyl
12th: Tristin Wicks and Caleb Obermeyer
Study Strategy – Flash Cards
Flashcards remain one of the best tools
for memorizing information. The most common
way to create flashcards is to use index cards.
Students can simply write the question on one
side and the answer on the opposite side and test
themselves repeatedly. However, there are
several ways to modify this process to enhance
the learning experience.
•One way to enhance learning is to incorporate
color into the card-making process. Color coding
is especially helpful for students who are visual
or tactile learners.
•Computer-generated cards can also enhance the
learning process. Students can type a list to
create question cards, cut them out, and fill in the
answers by hand on the back side. Tactile
learners benefit by using this process, as writing
the answers actually becomes part of the
learning process.
•If you find that writing out the answers is the
most beneficial part of the process for you, you
can simply repeat the process of printing the list
and writing the answers.
•If you want to use your cards repeatedly for the
entire school year, you may want to laminate
them.
•You can keep blank index cards on hand as you
take class notes. When you hear an important
term, you can write the term on a card right
away and add the answers later, when you study.
This process encourages you to reinforce the
information you hear in class.
•When studying with flashcards, make a small
check mark on the corner of those you get right.
When you have made two or three marks on a
card, you know you can put it in a separate pile.
Keep going through your main pile until all cards
have two or three marks.
•For classes that require you to memorize many
definitions, such as social studies or history
classes, you may want to gather together to
create a master list of flash cards using the
glossary in the back of your textbook. If possible,
use color coding to indicate for which chapter
each term is relevant.
STUDY STRATEGY CONTINUED:
•Make a matching game with your cards for your
study group. Make separate cards for the
questions and the answers, leaving the back
sides blank. Place the cards face down and turn
them over, one by one, trying to find matches.
•Make a competition with your cards by forming
two teams. Assign a scorekeeper to hold up cards
and keep track as team members call out the
right answers. This would be a good way to get
parents involved!
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Veterans Day
On November 11th every year, our
country celebrates and thanks its veterans who
have served our country. Over the years, MHS
has built a tradition of having our own Veterans
Day program at the high school. This year the
American History and Government classes wrote
personal invitations to over 200 veterans who
are living in the
school district,
inviting them to take
part in the program.
The program will be
held in the high
school auditorium at 10:00 a.m. on November
11th. This provided students with the
opportunity to make a personal connection with
veterans in our communities. Many of the
students were surprised to see people they knew
on the list and how many veterans we have living
in our district.
Math – Mrs. Crowther
Algebra students are learning to solve rate and
distance problems as well as graphing linear
functions.
College Algebra has been graphing polynomials
and will start on logarithms next.
Calculus studied limits 1st nine weeks and will
be doing derivatives 2nd nine weeks.
Physics—Mrs. Thayer-Wood
Physics students are quickly learning that
science and math are the proud parents of a baby
called PHYSICS!
They are applying
algebra skills in
solving problems
dealing with
velocity,
acceleration, and
force using
Newton’s first and
second laws. In
the middle of all of
this, they are
working on
building hot air
balloons that are
buoyant enough to lift a 10 g weight. That might
seem like a simple task, but it’s not as easy as
it sounds—as gravity’s
Two of the balloons: one tested, the
other soon-to-be
force with an
2
acceleration rate of 9.8 m/s is their greatest
nemesis. Failure is an option in this project,
however, and students are required to document all
their failures via video clips and written accounts.
They MUST achieve success at some point, and
then they will put all their video clips together in a
short film format using Movie Maker. It’s been
exciting, and while we haven’t had to use the fire
extinguisher yet (we are launching them on the
concrete behind the school), we have had some
fantastic failures! And we’ve learned that the
mistakes lead us to hard-earned moments of
learning.
Computer Applications – Mrs. Bruna
Students in Computer Applications are
learning about Microsoft Excel. They are learning
the basics of Excel which includes changing the
appearance of the worksheet and learning how to
organize it. In the future, they will create formulas
using operators and functions and will also work
with charts. At the end of the Excel unit, they will
have a simulation which incorporates a variety of
aspects of the program.
Counselor’s Snapshot – Mr. Carpenter
Marysville High School administration, faculty, and
support staff are dedicated to the goal of ensuring
that our graduates are college and career ready by
the time they leave high school. Very closely
Counselor’s Snapshot CONTINUED: connected
to this goal is the annual Career Fair for area
juniors. The fair will be held this year on Tuesday,
November 12 at Centralia High School. The
School-Business Educational Consortium in
Frankfort does all the organization and planning for
the fair. Juniors will have an opportunity to hear
opening remarks by Doc Arnett, Director of
Institutional Research for Highland Community
College. After the opening remarks, students will
have an hour to browse in the Centralia High
School Gymnasium where there will be a wide
variety of area businesses, two-year and four-year
colleges, and military representatives. These
representatives are arranged by career clusters as
follows: Arts, Communication and Information;
Business, Marketing and Management; Health
Science; Human Resources and Services; Industrial,
Manufacturing and Engineering Systems;
Environmental and Agriculture Systems; and the
United States Military. Juniors from Onaga,
Wetmore, Sabetha, Frankfort, Marysville, Valley
Heights, Axtell, B&B, Centralia, and Nemaha
Valley participate in this annual career fair.
Students should leave the fair with very useful
information that will be beneficial to them as they
make career and postsecondary plans.
Distinguished Service Program
As a part of the Distinguished Service
Program our Juniors and Seniors currently have
accumulated a total of 385.25 hours at our
school and in our community.
Nutrition and Wellness – Mrs. Frazee
Nutrition and Wellness students just finished
planning and preparing meals for the teachers
during parent teacher conferences and for the
FCCLA Fall Leadership Conference. Between the
two events they prepared meals for over 100 adults.
These experiences gave them hands on experience
and planning for multiple people. They will be
starting a unit on holiday cooking featuring items
for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Consumer Education – Mrs. Frazee
Students are working on income & expense
statements and spending plans. They will be able to
create a personal income & expense statement as
well as a spending plan when they get out on their
own.
Human Growth and Development – Mrs. Frazee
Students are creating a children’s book that
addresses a common childhood fear. The story is
aimed to help children overcome this fear or deal
with it in positive ways.
Career & Community Connections –
Mrs. Frazee
Leadership students just finished the Fall
Leadership Conference and are now planning for
the Purse-suit of Happiness Gift Auction which will
take place on Sunday, November 17. They are also
working on Santa’s Closet which will be held on
Tuesday, December 3 and Wednesday, December 4.
Senior Projects
The senior class will be starting senior
projects on November 18 which will run through
December 10th. Students will be put into small
groups to answer and present a thesis statement they
have formulated from a list of given topics.
FCCLA – Mrs. Frazee
FCCLA Fall Leadership Conference - Marysville
hosted District D FCCLA Fall Leadership
Conference on Wednesday, November 6. There
were 16 area schools and over 350 members and
adults who attended the conference. Students had
the opportunity to listen to keynote speaker Bill
Cortes and attend a variety of workshops during the
day.
Purse-suit of Happiness Gift Auction – The gift
auction will be on Sunday, November 17 in the
MHS cafeteria. The doors will open at 12:30 and
the silent auction begins promptly at 1:30. The
auction is sponsored this year by FCCLA, FBLA,
KSCFL, and Spanish Club. Tickets for the auction
can be purchased from any club member for $10.00.
The day’s activities will include a live auction, a
silent auction, door prizes, heavy hors d’oeuvres
and refreshments. Offerings will include purses,
scarves, jewelry, gifts for men and children,
collegiate items, kitchen items, and a variety of
general gift items. The money raised from the
auction will be used for state and national
competitions, service projects and other activities
for each organization.
Santa’s Closet – Santa’s Closet will be held on
Tuesday, December 3 and Wednesday, December 4
in Mrs. Frazee’s room. This is an opportunity for
FCCLA CONTINUED: preschool and grade
school children to purchase great Christmas gifts at
reduced prices. The gifts are very nice and we
have a wide variety for moms and dads. FCCLA
members work one on one with the kids to help
them pick out the perfect gift for their parents and
then help them wrap their selections. Gifts are sold
for less than cost. This activity is not a fundraiser,
but rather a community service project. This is a
way for the FCCLA to give back to the community
for everything that they do to support all of their
projects throughout the year.
National Honor Society
National Honor Society held their annual
induction November 6th to recognize students
for outstanding achievements in scholarship,
character, service, and leadership. The following
members were inducted: Casey Cohorst, Chloe
Cudney, Lauren Hawkinson, Stormy Middleton,
Madeline Moore, Caleb Obermeyer, Austin
Prinkki, Margo Samuelson, Megan Skeen, and
Broderick Stohs
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