<p>S told us his assignment in AP Physics C yesterday was for the class to design lab assignments for the other non-AP physics classes. I’m hoping this doesn’t mean he was doing the teacher’s work. </p>
<p>I was happy to see 2 of the 6 students I awarded (as rep of the Booster Club) community scholarships are nicely advancing in season ending competition in their respective sports, track and swimming. I inadvertently revealed enough about the swimmer that my S was able to discern which senior it was so now I’ve got him sworn to secrecy until the big community awards banquet in June.</p>
<p>Monday night is the election for officers for the local Education Foundation and I’m up on the slate as Exec VP. More important work and responsibilities for my shoulders of the kind I like to do.</p>
<p>you’ve got to have a dream! if you don’t have a dream! how you gonna have a dream come true?</p>
<p>Awards day at our school is next Fri, there are some book awards/medals for Jrs, and very rarely does a Jr win one of the department awards. They let the parents of winners know ahead so they can come, I wonder when that happens. Will be interesting to see who gets what (or hear about it after the fact, whichever the case may be)</p>
<p>Happy talk: daughter’s good friend was selected as editor in chief for school paper, and humpback whales were spotted off the beach the other day. (rare, but not unheard of). I’m going to go down and look for them right now.</p>
<p>and good luck with your election FAP. Good luck to YDS’s S! Vergil correct? D and I were looking over the grade distributions between the two Latin exams, Vergil is much lower, I hear it has a lot more lines.</p>
<p>Congrats to all who have finished their APs, and “I feel for ya” to those who have IB exams and rescheduled APs next week. S2 has IB Spanish left for Monday. Says there’s not much to study. Would be nice if he at least looked at the prior exams, but if he’s not so inclined, there is an overgrown lawn that desperately needs mowing after all the rain we’ve had! ;)</p>
<p>Prom is tonight. I get to drive some of them, which should prove fun. Hope the rain holds off until after we get the pics taken!</p>
<p>Even though it may be too late, quick, which beach were the humpbacks spotted off of? That is rare, we usually get the grays. Humpbacks are so gregarious. I went on a whale watching trip off of Cape Cod to see them and they were breaching and waving all over the place. Our grays down here are more sedate by compairson, similar to the orcas off the San Juan Islands in WA which we had the pleasure of seeing as well.</p>
<p>So, do you think those lines from the song in the musical (South Pacific, I believe) have some applicability for our '10s (parents as well)? Yesssssssssssssssss!</p>
<p>Talk, talk, talk,talk, talk, talk, happy talk.
Talking 'bout things we like to do.*
You’ve got to have a dream!
If you don’t have a dream!
How you gonna have a dream come true?</p>
<p>*Or, in the case of our '10s, writing about them!</p>
<p>I am confused about the Latin exam. It’s whatever one has Catallus. They did a multiple choice practice yesterday in class, and he got 19/25, which would be more than enough for a 5, apparently, as long as his essay holds up, so he was feeling confident.</p>
<p>YDS, yes that is Lit as Booklady says, same as my D is taking. We can compare notes afterwards (that is, whatever we get out of them!) RIP Latin Lit, this is the last year it will be offered. Is your son taking Vergil next year?</p>
<p>I won’t be a post hog and will add onto this since you answered my question on Vergil for next year.</p>
<p>Is this the usual order in your school? Ours typically did Vergil before Lit, but with this being the last year for Lit the teacher allowed two Juniors (and one sophomore who joined the class about a month in!) to reverse and take Lit first. There were others whom he did not allow to do this.</p>
<p>There will be some advanced honors Latin V class next year for the current juniors who took Vergil this year.</p>
<p>I know you won’t believe this because I have almost 2,000 posts on here, but I really am hands-off on this kind of stuff and have no idea how it works. This is what I think happens …</p>
<p>We are a smallish school, and so there aren’t just tons of Latin students. In order to make advanced Latin courses, the juniors and seniors are combined and take the same course. One year, it’s Literature; one year it’s Vergil, and they just keep alternating. Does that make sense? So, on some kids’ transcripts it will say Latin 4 and on some it will say Latin 5, but they’re taking the same course and will take the same test. At least that’s how I think it works. Ds is one of only two of seven juniors moving on to Latin 5 next year, and they (and the new juniors) will be learning Vergil. I have no idea what will happen to those juniors as seniors now that Latin Lit is being phased out.</p>
<p>That’s how I think it’s happening this year. But maybe this was an anomaly because Latin Lit is RIP. Wish I knew how to say Rest in Peace in Latin. :)</p>
<p>That makes total sense YDS and I know we have discussed this before. When I was in school, which was a pretty big school 500 kids per grade we only had a handful in each of Latin 3 and 4 were combined into the same classroom. Teacher worked with each group 2x/week, group worked independently the other days. And we watched a movie one day! I added the Latin achievement test for the heck of it at the end and was shocked that I learned stuff in that class! (I ended at Latin 3 as a senior, also took French)</p>
<p>Latin is pretty popular at our school, all 6th graders start with it then can switch the next year, but many stay with Latin, the teachers are the coolest.</p>
<p>Happy Talk:
S2 is getting award, however we won’t find out until June what it is for. I’m guessing a junior book award, but really it could be anything including the consolation prize in the National Latin Exam. (He’s probably the worst student in the class, but even he can get a cum laude on the exam.)</p>
<p>Oh my goodness, FindAPlace. What a truly awful idea.</p>
<p>Although I’m a little confused. When D applied to private high school she took the SSAT. That purported to tell you what you might score on the SAT as well. Taking the SSAT to apply to high school was bad enough, but taking a test for the sake of angsting over test scores is just dumb.</p>
<p>FAP, they were off the MB pier. But they’re probably up your way… or who knows where, by now.
My daughter started with Latin at the high school as an 8th grader, so there’s nothing for her next year. She may study for the NLE on her own (if she can.) Taking the subject test in June.</p>