KIPP NYC CP - April 2010 - English

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trains and the BX 6 and BX19 buses.

Weve been assured and do believe that Choir will beready for our high school bySeptember 2011, and weare going to do everythingwe absolutely can to makesure this happens. Hugethanks and respect to all of the KIPP NYC staff, stu-dents, and parents for thecollective spirit and charac-ter that is going to make thisall possible. The last 15years have proved to us

over and over again, thatwhen it comes to schoolswho you are with is alwaysmore important than whereyou are located. As we say,As a team and family, wewill either find a way ormake one.

Dear KIPP NYC Families,

We hope all is well. It wasso great seeing so many of you at report card meetingsthis week. Between RegentsExams and trips to Chinaand Puerto Rico, this is sureto be an exciting Spring atKIPP NYC College PrepHigh School.

Im writing today to pro-vide you with a brief updateon our search for a perma-nent home for our highschool. As you may know,we are excited about thepossibility of Choir Acad-emy being the permanenthome for KIPP NYC Col-lege Prep. Choir Academyis located on 127th andMadison Avenue in Harlem.As soon as we have the finaldates for the CEC hearingand the PEP vote, we will

be sure to get it to everyoneso that the entire KIPPNYC team and family canturn out to show our sup-

port.As weve spoken about atour parent meetings, forChoir to be the type of per-manent facility our highschool needs, it is going torequire a years worth of renovations. As a result,for the 2010-11 schoolyear, KIPP NYC CollegePrep will co-locate withKIPP Academy Elementary

School in our brand new building in Mott HavenVillage in the Bronx (right behind KIPP Academy).We did an exhaustive searchfor alternatives and this is by far and away the bestoption available to us. This building is easily accessible by the 2, 4, 5, B, and D

N OTE FROM M R . LEVIN

KIPP NYC C OLLEGE P RE P A PRIL N EWSLETTER YEAR 1, ISSUE2

KIPP NYC

I N THIS N EWSLETTER .. .

Note from Mr. Levin

May and June Calendars

Scholar Shout-Outs

KIPP OnlineIn the Classroom

Summer Opportunities

From the Field

As always, thanks so much forthe tremendous faith, support,and encouragement of eachKIPP NYC parent, guardian,and family. We feel trulyhonored and blessed to beworking with your children.

Please feel free to contact Ms.Webb (571.214.8277,

[email protected]) or me(917.806.0673,[email protected]) at any-time if you have any ques-tions.

Thanks again.

One love,

Dave Levin

Congratulations to our 3rd quarter award winners!

Thanks to Tracey Bonsu and Raquel War-ner for bringing yoga to Good Day NY

and representing KIPP NYC CP so well!


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P AG E 2 KIPP NYC C OLLEGE P RE P A PRIL N EWSLETTER

M AY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

May 5: Domestic/Dating Violence Work-shop, 6:00 p.m., KIPP NYC High School

May 8: Mandatory Saturday School: MocLiving Environment Exam

May 9: Quarter 3 Rewards Trip (MetsGame!)

May 10-14: School Spirit Week

May 14: Summer Opportunities GrantApplications Due

May 15: School Open (Optional)

May 17: Final Puerto Rico and ChinaAnnouncements

May 18: Advocacy Night Rally

May 22: Mandatory Saturday School:Mock Math Exam

May 31: School Closed for Memorial Da

J UNE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

STUDENTS DISMISSED AT 3:30EVERY DAY!

June 5: Mandatory Saturday Schoo(review day for finals week)

June 5: New Family BBQ

June 7 June 11: In-class Finals forPE, Speech/Comp, Health, Art,Music, Drama, and Spanish

June 14 June 18: In-class Finals foEnglish and Global. Regents Examsfor Living Environment, Geometry

and Integrated Algebra June 12: Mandatory Saturday Scho(review day for finals week)

June 21: Puerto Rico and ChinaTrips Depart

June 25: Return from Puerto Rico

J UNE 2010Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

STUDENTS ARE DISMISSED AT 3:30 EVERY DAY IN JUNE

1 2 3 4 5MandatorySaturdaySchoolFamily BBQ

7 PE andSpeechFinal

8 PE andSpeech Final

9 Health, Art,Drama, MusicFinal

10 Spanish,Art, Drama,Music Final

11 Last Dayof ClassesSpanish,Health Final

12Manda-tory Satur-day School

14EnglishExam 15GlobalExam 16Living Envi-ronment Re-gents

17 Geome-try Regents 18Inte-grated Alge- bra Regents

19

21PuertoRico andChina TripsDepart

22 23 24 25Returnfrom PuertoRico

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28 29 30

M AY 2010Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

13 4 5Dating

ViolenceWorkshop

6 7 8Manda-tory Satur-day School

10 11 12Advisory:CollegeAccess

13 14 Field Day Grant Appli-cations Due

15SchoolOpen(Optional)

17Final P.R.and ChinaAnnounce-ments

18Advo-cacy NightRally

19 Advisory:StressManagement

20 21 22 Manda-tory Satur-day School

24 25 26 27 28 29

31SchoolClosed

KIPP NYC CP SPIRIT WEEK!

FINALS WEEK

REGENTS AND FINALS WEEK


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From Ms. De Pesa:

Cheryl Liburd , you have

worked hard to improveyour grades and it shows.You are always kind andconsiderate. I enjoy our af-ternoon chats!

From Mr. Imwold:

Big shout-out toPamelaNegrin andAronys Perezfor their phenomenal pres-entations!

Huge shout-out toAlix

Rodriguez for pushing usall to make sure that ours is asafe and welcoming environ-ment for all students.

Shout-out toRandy Vol-quez for doing a great job asthe Track teams new cap-tain!

From Mr. Powell:

Shout-out toBrandon Pa-gan for turning his gradesaround this quarter andhanding in all of his home-work.

From Ms. Godwin:

Ashley Lopez Wonderful

presentation on Uruguay!One of the best I saw!

Nichelle Easie For yourone-of-a-kind visual aide foryour Chilean presentation!

Mathew Ruiz For yourdeep concern with exchangerates.

Lofatou Paye You havegrown so much as a scholarthis year; Im so proud of

you!Sabrina Sultana A won-derfully rehearsed presenta-tion! Way to show em howits done.

Online Classrooms: www.moodlekippnyccp.org Get updates from teachers and homework

assignments.

Online Grades: https://kippacademyny.powerschool.com/public

Check your students gradesto stay updated on their at-tendance and academic pro-gress.

Weve gone virtual and wantto share some helpful onlineresources with you.

KIPP NYC CP Website: www.kippnyc.org Look online to find updatedinformation about our school(including acopy of thisnewsletter).

SCHOLAR SHOUT -O UTS

KIPP O NLINE

P AG E 3Y EA R 1, ISSUE 2

Congratulations to our 85 Quarter Three Award Winners... Olamide Adams, Lunmar Alcantara,Ezla Alexander, Anahjae Allen, ClaudiAlmazo, Nicholas Arroyo, Shakeema

Blanco, Jennifer Bravo, Amber-LeeBrown, Ashley Cern, Kelvin Clark,Leah Collazo, Jashua Concepcion,Nikia Corley, Jasmine Cruz, KarinaDelgado, Samantha Delgado-Perez,David Dennis, Kyle Dixon, AarianneEstrella, Deja Fisher, Nelkie Gonell,Leola Gordon, Briya Greene, BrieannaLee Harris, Khalil Hendricks, KimHeras, Kevin Hidalgo, Alexis Hill,Shelly Hopper, William James, Jashau Julien, Stephanie Jurado, Ashley Lo-pez, Yosmary Marte, Ivan Martinez,Ivan Martinez, Ivan Martinez, Saman-tha Martinez, Briana McCall, Harold

Mercedes, James Middleton, DarnellMoore, Akeele Morgan, Paola Munoz,Sebastian Nartey, Pamela Negrin, Jeremy Nesbitt, Jericho Nesbitt, LisaOsemwegie, Brandan Pagan, LofatouPaye, Brian Peguero, Jaime Pena,Aronys Perez, Leslie Perez, CleirysPerez, Arismendy Pichardo, IsmaelPieter, Jordan Puello, Maurice Ramos,Raquel Reynoso, Shanice Richards,Sophia-Symone Richardson, RichardRichardson, J'son Robinson, Alix Rod-riguez, Gabriel Rodriguez, JeffreyRodriguez, Alejandro Rosario, JezebelRuiz, Mathew Ruiz, Delaney SampsonSabrina Sultana, Tracy Then, JhonThomas, Rai Thomas, Inaely Turbis,Tony Turner, Taisha Valentin, JuanCarlos Vidal, Randy Volquez, TimothyWalker, Raquel Warner, and DykwaunWilliams

Newsletter Feedback:

We are excited to bring youthis monthly newsletter toshare updates about academ-ics, sports, summer oppor-tunities, and general KIPPNYC College Prep news. If there is information that youwould like to see, or havesuggestions for this newslet-ter, e-mail Ms. DeSario [email protected].

Shout-out toAkeele Mor-gan for bringing his gradesup and maintaining focus thisquarter.

Shout-out to Jhon Thomasfor bringing his grades up andstaying focused this quarter.

From Mr. Weinberg:

Lofatou Paye has beenworking hard to stay on topof her assignments and getextra help when she needs it.Her infectious smile brightensany room and is a highlight of my day. Keep up the hardwork!

Jericho Nesbitt has made amajor turn-around in biology.His answers are insightful andshow he has made an effort tounderstand the material. Welldone!

Ivan Martinez has turnedinto a biology machine--he

answers questions proudlyand correctly on a daily basis.His enthusiasm is somethingwe should all aspire to have inthe classroom.


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The students will first be in-troduced to a few Shakespear-ean sonnets before diving intothe Tragedy of Macbeth.They will become familiarwith Elizabethan language,Shakespeares style, and theculture of the time. Then wewill begin with one of LadyMacbeths dramatic solilo-quies to hook the students, sothey are intrigued to knowmore about ambition. Thestudents will be assigned spe-cific pages to preview at

night. They will be givenacting roles for specificscenes. The next day, theywill be expected to delivera performance. Studentswatching the play unfoldwill be expected to takequality Cornell notes asthey watch and analyze thescene. I am looking for-ward to bringing acting toEnglish class!

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ENGLISH WITH M S. M YERS

BIOLOGY WITH M R . W EINBERG

SPANISH I WITH M S. G ODWIN /M R . IMWOLD All Spanish classes just turned in their SpringBreak Country Research projects. We hadstudents create some pretty amazing Power-point presentations, research papers, and post-ers.

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We were proud to host award-winning author Malcolm

Gladwell earlier this month. Mr.Gladwell met with the studentsthat are reading his book,Out-liers,and judged a student essay

contest. Congratulations toIsmael Pieter andShakeema

Blanco for being the essaycontest finalists.

U PCOMING E VENTS

AMBITIONUNIT WITH MACBETH BEING THE

FOCUS BEGINS ON MONDAYAPRIL26TH.

From the end of March intoApril, students explored thesystems of the human body.From understanding the pur-poses of the ever-present gal-lop of our heart beat to thereasons why we feel sleepyafter a big meal, the studentsare learning how our own bodies are filled with real-lifeapplications of the principlesof science we have studied allyear long. Many studentshave been taking advantage of opportunities to re-take quiz-zes until they understand theunderlying concepts they test.

These students have takenownership of their grades, ahabit that will serve themwell as we approach the endof the year and in futureclasses. We will be workingthrough two more units be-fore we begin our review forthe Regents examination onthe afternoon of June 16th.The first is a survey of themost important principle in biology: evolution. We will be observing the remarkablediversity of organisms onEarth to understand hownatural selection and

evolution led them to developcharacteristics that allowedthem to survive in their envi-ronments. In the final unit,we will be studying ecology--the relationship of organismswith each other and their en-vironment. Much of this unitwill be focused on under-standing the complex waysthat humans interact with thenatural world and affect thefuture of the planet.


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This month, students of theVisual Arts Authentic Connec-tions Program designed bro-chures in an effort to persuadereaders to explore extreme en-vironments--some as subtle asan iceberg and others as bafflingas a parallel universe. Throughthis work, students found joy inusing art as the medium throughwhich they could explore theseenvironments.

Students set out on this journeywith the intention of illuminat-ing the mystique of these habi-tats. The criteria was simple-- be silly, but factual. Ultimately,the drive and passion studentsput into designing their bro-

chures transformed this pro- ject into a competitive pro-duction.

There is no doubt these bro-chures will provide to anyreader a sense of humor andmomentary escape--take one!

V ISUAL A RTS WITH M R . C ROSBY

G LOBAL STUDIES AND G EOGRAPHY U PDATES

Examples of Poetry AssignmentNo cattle, no goats

Here we hide from the smallest creaturesWho knew something so smallCould cause so muchWhy do we hide from flies?

by Kim Heras (this in reference to the tsetse fly which carries sleeping sickness)

The endless, unforgiving desertWith millions and millions grains of sandDo I go back or proceed?Water is just what I seek

The sun raging down on meIt seems like a dream to reach,The NileWhere I can drink and smileI will just keep dreamingAnd sayIt is just another mileby Delaney Sampson

From Ms. Woods:Global History and Geography classes

just finished a unit on Sub-Saharan AfricaNext we will be moving east to studyEast and Central Asia; this unit will endin mid-May. For our last unit of studywe will be moving back west to focus onthe Renaissance and Reformation. Weare looking forward to a strong finish forall of our students.

From Mr. Hanna: In April we have been studying the

history and geography of Africa.Students learned about the em-pires in west Africa that were builton the gold-salt trade; as well asabout the civilizations of Nubia,Ethiopia, and the Swahili coast.Every student created a topog-raphical map of the continent andtook their unit assessment.

One of the tasks students wererequired to complete this unit wasto write a poem from the per-spective of a person living in oneof the climate and vegetationzones of Africa and interactingwith the environment.

P AG E 5Y EA R 1, ISSUE 2

KIPP NYC College Prep Theatre Department Presents: Broadway Musical Revue! An evening of song, dance adrama sure to move your heart. Join us this June as we tthe great songs of Broadway! We hope to see you there!

D RAMA W ITH M S. R OTHWELL

KIPP NYCMUSICAL

REVUE.


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Examples of summer opportunities: Summer Youth Employment Program: Paid job opportunities for students.Approximately 15 percent of students that apply will get jobs through this pro-gram (there is a shortage of openings). Students can apply online and must have

working papers before they start the job (they do not need working papers toapply)

YMCA Camps:Offers multiple sports and activity camps throughout New YorkCity and also sleepaway programs. Cost varies depending on family income andfinancial aid is available. Applications are available online or students can ask Ms.DeSario for more information.

Hartwick College Music Festival: One or two week music programs forstrings, brass, percussion, or wind instruments at SUNY Oneonta. Cost is $800per week but financial aid is available.

Active Jacs Basketball Camp: Three day basketball camp at City College.This camp is for both boys and girls and costs $275 but discounts are available.

Teen Acting Shakespeare Program: Three-week intensive acting program inManhattan. Teacher recommendations are necessary for full scholarships.

Chelsea Piers Urban Adventure Camp: Active day camp in Manhattan.Involves rock-climbing, kayaking, and other activities. Two-week program costs$575 but financial aid is available.

Students have been learning about varioussummer opportunities through advisoryclasses. We want all students to apply to two

different summer programs (this can includecamps, internships, jobs, or study programs)so they can have a rewarding summerexperience. By applying to more than oneprogram, students are giving themselvesoptions and setting themselves up for successthis summer. You can review the packet of summer programs that was given to studentson the KIPP NYC CP Website. Please notethat this packet was given to students earlierthis month so some deadlines have passed.

Many students have had questions about thecost of the programs and about fundingoptions. All students were given a summeropportunities grant application where theycan write a short essay to apply for fundingthrough KIPP. We are committed toworking with students, families, theprograms, and KIPP to ensure that everystudent has access to a quality summerprogram. The grant application can be foundon the KIPP NYC CP website and is dueFriday, May 14.If you have anyquestions about summer programs,working papers, or applications,please contact Ms. DeSario [email protected] or call516.658.4167.

Track Meets

May 4May 18 June 8

Boys Baseball Games

May 6, 3:45May 11, 4:00

FROM THE F IELD

SUMMER O PPORTUNITIES U PDATE : A PPLICATIONS AND G RANTS

A lucky group of students attended the NiketownDraft Pick last week. Big thanks to Tyrone Parker a

PSAL for donating these tickets.

We are excited about our SpringSports Team. Please find a schedule below.

Girls Softball Games

May 3, 4:30May 4, 4:30May 10, 4:30May 17, 4:30May 26, 4:30--PlayoffsMay 28, 4:30--Championship

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KIPP NYC CP - April 2010 - English