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  • For announcements about future Expressions meetings, look at the calendar below.
Use this calendar to see when I'm NOT available for before or after school, and also to see important dates about meetings, due dates for contests, etc. 

Before and After School Availability


Resources
Use the following resources to help you this year:
  • The official Wilmington High School website
  • You will need a dictionary for our vocabulary work. Try to use a good dictionary, like the Merriam-Webster dictionary. In addition to being free, it provides etymology, other forms, and easily links to related words.
  • The OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue's MLA Style Guide. Bookmark this site! It's a quick guide to help you with the MLA format for your papers (for trickier questions, consult an MLA Handbook). I use this website frequently for my own research. The site also has other pages on the APA writing style and grammar.
  • Celtx has script writing software used in the Creative Writing classes. It's a free download that helps you with formatting. It has a lot of nifty features, allowing you to use storyboard, plot out graphic novels, aand (most importantly) write scripts for stage and screen.
  • If you are looking for some quality search engines that will give you results that tend to be more academic than the usually search engine results, check out these:
    • Sweet Search brings you to websites that have been approved by research experts. You still need to exercise discernment and consider whether or not the sources are reliable, but you're sure to get results that will help you with projects in class.
    • RefSeek will also bring you to more academic results. 
 
 
 

Wilmington High School Mission Statement and Learner Expectations

Wilmington High School Mission Statement
 

Wilmington High School will provide a student-centered education that promotes academic, personal, and social growth and achievement for all learners.  Our school, with the support of the community, will ensure a learning environment that includes a challenging, quality standards-based curriculum, varied technological tools, current instructional materials and resources, up-to-date facilities and a safe and respectful environment.  It is our goal that the students leave WHS with the appreciation for learning, and are capable of living and working in a global society.

(Adopted by the faculty 9/10/2007)

WHS Graduates will be:

Academic Expectations

Effective Communicators, who receive, interpret, and convey knowledge and ideas clearly and purposefully in a variety of modes.


Innovative Problem Solvers
, who use inductive and deductive reasoning to address current and emerging issues, organize and analyze information, and pursue promising solutions with flexibility.
 

Self-Directed Learners, who understand themselves, make informed choices concerning their cognitive, physical, and emotional well-being; and monitor and accept responsibility for their continuous learning.

Social Expectations

Skilled Leaders, who use interpersonal and leadership skills to work effectively with peers and groups to accomplish common goals.
 

Cultured Individuals, who understand, appreciate and respond to the aesthetics of the arts, literature, and the natural world.

Civic Expectations

Community Contributors, who contribute actively to the good of their local and global environments.