Passion, Purpose, People
1. Students will develop positive social identities based on their membership in multiple groups in society.
3. Students will recognize that people’s multiple identities interact and create unique and complex individuals.
Week 1: Sept 5 - Sept 8
Announcements 📣
!!Please make sure you fill out this form with your advisory (It's how your seniors order their senior T-shirt size.) Thank you!!
We will be supporting students with their college essay writing starting the week of September 11 (next week). Please encourage students to begin thinking about their essays if they haven't already done so.
Design this year's Unitee! All details can be found here.
The Counseling Department is starting to connect with seniors about college applications. They are hosting College Application Mandatory Meetings. These meetings will show students how to request transcripts, letters of recommendation and complete the Common App recommender form correctly. Students should head down to Guidance and sign up for a spot. There is one during A-block 9/8 and during advisory 9/12 with many more opportunities to come.
SBHS Open House: Thurs, Sept 14 @ 7 PM. Please encourage folks from home to attend.
Jr/Sr Privileges forms should be turned in to the Attendance Office ASAP (even if you filled one out last year).
Getting the Band Back Together, Wrap Up
(from last Wednesday): Have students share their summer memory with the associated picture , video, or object if you haven't done so already.
Predictions: Have your students write out predictions for the year. What do they think will happen in the school/politics/their favorite TV show/with other students in advisory? These should be lighthearted! They can write as many as they want. Have them write their names on their papers and gather them up. Store them somewhere safe (NO PEEKING) and pass back at the end of the year for a read-aloud.
Try this fun activity with your group: Sticky Note Sentences.
Don't forget about our daily/weekly features linked below!
Click below for the weekly NYT News Quiz
Click below to play Connections
Click below to listen to the FREQUENCY
Week 2: Sept 11 - Sept 15
Announcements 📣
Please make sure you fill out this form with your advisory (It's how your seniors order their senior T-shirt size.) Thank you
Unitee size form - please complete on Wed Sept 13.
Vote for this year's Unitee Design here. Voting closes on Mon Sept 18.
PSAT/SAT offered at SBHS for free! Wed, Oct 11. No need to register - just show up to school at the normal time. More details forthcoming.
The Counseling Department is starting to connect with seniors about college applications. They are hosting College Application Mandatory Meetings. These meetings will show students how to request transcripts, letters of recommendation and complete the Common App recommender form correctly. Students should head down to Guidance and sign up for a spot. Upcoming meeting dates and times: Thurs Sept 21 @ 8 am and Fri Sept 29 @ 9:30 am during A-block.
Wednesday evening (Sept 13th) will be a Senior College Planning Info Session. This will start at 6:30PM in the SBHS auditorium. This is for Seniors as well as parents/caregivers.
Monday evening (Sept 18th) at St. Michaels College 6:30 - 8:30 will be an IN-PERSON college fair. This is an opportunity to chat with admissions counselors and learn more about schools.
The NEACAC College Fair at St. Michael's College is scheduled for during the school day on Thursday, September 21st from 9am-12pm. Check your email and announcements for when you can sign-up for a spot. There is also an evening session from 6-8pm.
SBHS Open House: Thurs, Sept 14 @ 7 PM. Please encourage folks from home to attend.
Jr/Sr Privileges forms should be turned in to the Attendance Office ASAP (even if you filled one out last year).
Class Meeting! Please...
take attendance in your classroom,
go to the auditorium with your group, and
sit by advisory.
Thank you!
Click below for the weekly NYT News Quiz
Click below to play Connections
Click below to listen to the FREQUENCY
College Essay Prep
We begin our college essay writing workshops next week. Please share this article to prime the pump.
Have students read the article and then lead a discussion about obstacles students have encountered or anticipate encountering while writing their essay. Follow up by asking what idea(s) in the article will help them overcome those obstacles.
Make sure that students know they don't need to have a rough draft for next week, as the series of workshops will take them through the entire process. If they have a completed essay, going through the process should help them refine their work.
Energizer: Quick Numbers (if time allows)
Week 3: Sept 18 - Sept 22
Announcements 📣
Unitee size form - please complete on Mon Sept 18 if you haven't already done so.
Vote for this year's Unitee Design here. Voting closes on Mon Sept 18.
Monday evening (Sept 18th) at St. Michaels College 6:30 - 8:30 will be an IN-PERSON college fair. This is an opportunity to chat with admissions counselors and learn more about schools.
The Counseling Department is starting to connect with seniors about college applications. They are hosting College Application Mandatory Meetings. These meetings will show students how to request transcripts, letters of recommendation and complete the Common App recommender form correctly. Students should head down to Guidance and sign up for a spot. Upcoming meeting dates and times: Thurs Sept 21 @ 8 am and Fri Sept 29 @ 9:30 am during A-block.
The NEACAC College Fair at St. Michael's College is scheduled for during the school day on Thursday, September 21st from 9am-12pm. Check your email and announcements for when you can sign-up for a spot. There is also an evening session from 6-8pm.
PSAT/SAT offered at SBHS for free! Wed, Oct 11. No need to register - just show up to school at the normal time. More details forthcoming.
Student Council Speeches/Elections! Please...
take attendance in your classroom,
go to the auditorium with your group, and
sit by advisory.
Thank you!
College Essay Writing
Postponed to (hopefully) next week: Do you have advisees who aren't planning to attend college next year? Please send them to Cafe 2 for a presentation on resume building hosted by our very own Julian Barritt.
An overview of our process can be found here.
Please watch The Power of Words video with your group from the College Essay writing page of our website.
Please share this file with students: Tips for Writing a College Essay.
Have students complete the "Getting Started" activity. Students should make a copy of this file and save it to their Drive in their college essay writing folder (which they may need to create). Give them the rest of the advisory block to write. Please print copies ahead of time to hand out to any students who prefer pencil & paper to keyboard & screen. They could then do their writing on the back of the paper.
Please ask students to bring in any work they have done on their college essays for advisory next week, as we are planning a read/feedback session.
Energizer: Nouns in a Hat (if time allows)
Week 4: Sept 25 - Sept 29
Announcements 📣
PSAT/SAT offered at SBHS for free! Wed, Oct 11. More details forthcoming.
The Counseling Department is starting to connect with seniors about college applications. They are hosting College Application Mandatory Meetings. These meetings will show students how to request transcripts, letters of recommendation and complete the Common App recommender form correctly. Students should head down to Guidance and sign up for a spot. Upcoming meeting date and time: Fri Sept 29 @ 9:30 am during A-block.
Jr/Sr Privileges forms should be turned in to the Attendance Office ASAP
College Essay Writing
Students will need to work in pairs for this activity.
Please print out a copy of the activity The Writer & The Babbler for each of your pairs (not front to back) ahead of time. All the directions for the activity are contained in the file.
Please facilitate this activity for the group so that everyone is proceeding through the activity at the same time. The directions for the activity can be found on the file linked above.
For those students who attended the resume building workshop on Tuesday: please share this document with them in order to support their efforts around resume writing and/or a similar activity.
College Essay Writing
At this point in time, students should have either a clear idea for their essay, or a written rough draft.
For those advisees with a clear idea and no rough draft, please allow them time to write.
For those advisees with a rough draft, please set up a conference schedule with you.
Here is the process to be used for conferencing with advisees about their essay.
If you have a lot of conference requests, you may want to consider having students pair up to give each other feedback using the same process linked above.
The idea is that the reader/feedback giver should be asking questions. Questioning allows the writer to think for themselves.