Lennard High School
May, 2015
Lennard Lasso
Administrative Staff
Principal
Bringing Together Home-SchoolCommunity
Mary Freitas
2342 East Shell Point Rd Ruskin, FL
33570
Martha McFarland
Assistant Principal for Curriculum
Assistant Principal for Administration
John Guarisco
Assistant Principal for Student Affairs
Important Dates
May 19-23– Geometry EOC
Eric Brooks
Assistant Principal for Student Affairs
Marcos Rodriguez
May 5-16-AP Exams
Assistant Principal for Student Affairs
May 15– Senior’s last day
Hülya Tasci
May 16– Athletic Booster Golf Tournament
May 18-20– Senior Exams
May 21– Spring Football Jamboree at Spoto High
School
May 27-30 EOC makeups
May 29– Graduation
June 1-5– Final Exams
“Quality
Relationships
~
Quality
Learning”
June 5– Last day of school
Inside this issue:
Class of 2015
Congratulations to the class of 2015! We wish you
the best of luck on your future endeavors. You are
and will always be a Lennard Long Horn!
Senior Superlatives
2
Graduation Information
3
NCAA Eligibility Information
4-7
Announcements
8
Golf Tournament Flyer
9
Rotary Day Flyer
10
Science Department Highlights
11
Test taking information
12
Guidance Information
13
PLEASE CONGRATULATE THE CLASS OF 2015 Superlatives:
GIRLS:
Morgan Beachum
Briana Brewer
Kimber Eaton
Kayla Elmore
Alison Godlberg
Danae Moss
Alexis Shinawongse
Stephanie Tindel
Tuongvi (Jade) Tran
Anqi Zhang
BOYS:
Justin Campbell
Chadwick Edouard
Michael Feliciano
Skye Franks
Kevin Gray-Guzman
Brian Nelson
Stephon Nelson
Adonys Nivens
Evan Ratliff
Jonathan Trejo
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Lennard Library News
We started the year reading together… we were scared under the
covers… we remembered our heroes…we celebrated family, faith
and friends… we went on “blind dates”… we found our lucky
charms… and finally… we battled it out, boys vs. girls (boys won) … all
this through books at the Lennard Media Center!
Until we meet again…read on.
See you next year, Ms. Banegas
(Dear Students: For next school year consider participating in our
monthly reading contests for prizes!)
Thanks, Your Media Staff
Mrs. Banegas and Mrs. Capone
"West Side Story' finished its run in late April, but we have one more night of performances
coming May 22nd! LHS Theatre and Chump Change proudly present Improv Night + "Shades
of Color" + "Coma". 'Shades' and 'Coma' are two student written new original plays by Colleen
Tay, a senior, and Austin Gratzer, a junior. These plays were entered into the district Individual Events competition for judging, and out of 25 entries across Hillsborough County, these two
students were picked above everyone else as Superior rated and made the Critics Choice
award for their work. As a celebration of their achievement, we are staging both plays for their
premiere productions! Interspersed before, in between and after the two plays, Chump
Change is presenting its first ever Improv Night, where students will create skits and scenes
out of thin air from their creativity and ingenuity. We promise many laughs and a good time all
round. Show starts at 7pm, $3 a ticket.
On a side note, I went to the Straz theatre last night and saw Pippin with my wife and three
students. They were talking to audience members around them, promoting the upcoming
West Side Story production, and apparently the lady Christian spoke to said that her cousin is
the new AP there.....what a small world we live in! Thought you'd be amused.
Test Taking Rules:
Pacing and Timing
Pacing is based on the idea that each question on the test takes a certain amount of time to read and answer. If you had unlimited time, or
very few questions to answer, pacing would not be a problem. Good test takers also develop a sense of timing to help them complete the
test. The goal is to spend time on the questions that you are most likely to answer correctly and leave some time for review at the end of
the testing period. Use all of the time you have on the test. If you finish early, go back and read the hard questions. Be sure you answered
every question.
Strategies for Pacing
Use these pacing strategies (ideas or suggestions) so you don’t lose time on the test. Using these ideas, you will have time to find all of the
questions you are able to answer.
Keep moving. Don’t spend so much time on hard questions that you lose the time to find and answer the easier ones. Work on less timeconsuming questions before moving on to more time-consuming ones.
Spend time on the questions you have the best chance of getting right. Some types of questions take longer to answer than others.
Keep track of time during the test. You should check the clock and know when you are one- fourth of the way through the time you have,
half way through and when you have five minutes left. If you finish a section before time is called, check your answers.
Know which type of question is easiest for you. Begin by answering the easiest questions. If you do this, be sure to mark the questions you
skip with a question mark. Leave the ovals on the answer sheet blank for the questions you skip. Go back to those questions later.
How to Pace
Write down the time on your scratch sheet when you should be one-quarter of the way through, halfway through, and when time is up.
Next to the time, write the number of the question that is one-quarter and one-half of the way through the test. That way you will know
where you should be at a certain time. Every now and then, check your progress to see how much time you have left and how many questions you have left to answer.
Some questions take less time to answer than others. If you have 30 minutes to answer 30 questions, it does NOT necessarily work out to
one minute per question.
Begin to work as soon as the testing time begins. Keep your attention focused on the test. Don’t daydream.
Don’t spend a long time figuring out the answers on the first time through a section. Answer questions you are sure of first. Mark those
questions you are unsure of so you can easily locate them later.
Go back and try the questions you skipped, using the guessing strategy below. In the last few minutes, check your answers to avoid careless mistakes
Check your answer sheet to make sure there are no stray marks and that all erasures are clean.
During the Test
Think positively. If you are thinking you aren’t doing well, you are not thinking about the question in front of you. Think positive thoughts
that will help you keep up your confidence and focus on each question.
Keep Yourself Focused. Try not to think about anything except the question in front of you. If you catch yourself thinking about something
else, bring your thoughts back to the test and congratulate yourself. You have just proved you are in control.
Concentrate on your own work. Some students look around to see how everyone else is doing when they get stuck on a question. What
they usually see is that others are filling in their answers. “Look at how well everyone else is doing. What’s wrong with me?” If you start
thinking this way, try to remember:
Everyone works at a different pace. Your neighbors may not be working on the same question that is hard for you. Thinking about what
someone else is doing doesn’t help you answer even a single question. In fact, it takes away time you should be using on the test.
Don’t be upset by something you don’t understand. No one is expected to get a perfect score. There will be a few items on every test that
most people will not understand. When you come across something you don’t understand, remain calm. Reread that part of the test carefully. Try to figure out what is being said. Use your test taking strategies. Make your best guess, then go on to items you do understand.
Lennard High School
Parent Involvement
Plan
The Parent Involvement
Plan is now available, in
condensed version as well
as full-length version, on our
school website. Please look
over the plan at your convenience to see how Title I
funds are helping our students. Also, the Parent Involvement Notebook can be
found in Student Affairs Office.
Senior Exam Exemption Information
Seniors must meet the following criteria to exempt exams in
May:

Earned 3 quality points in their final semester

Earned at least one quality point during 4th nine weeks

No more than five absences
Susan L. Valdes, Chair

No ISS or OSS or Debt to LHS
Doretha W. Edgecomb, Vice Chair
County School Board
April Griffin
Sally A. Harris
Carol W. Kurdell
Melissa Snively
Cindy Stuart
Superintendent of Schools
MaryEllen Elia
www.sdhc.k12.fl.us
2015-2016 Programming
Programming for next school year is underway. It is important that all students understand the schedule change policy for the upcoming
school year. Schedule changes will only be completed if a student has a scheduling error, i.e. a course already taken, the same course listed
twice on the schedule or a missing class. Schedule changes will NOT be considered for the purpose of teacher preference. Please keep in
mind that due to Class Size Reduction, core classes are capped at 25 students. There can be no exception to this law. Please discuss with your
child all course requests and be sure that he/she is fully aware of the commitment made when signing up for classes. If you have any questions, please contact your child’s guidance counselor at 641-5611.
Ms. Osgood(A-E) ext 260– Mrs. Hottenstein (G-Mag) ext 258- Ms Young (Mai-Rod) ext 257-Mrs Diaz (Roe-Z) ext 256
Ms. Price/College&Career ext.253
Mr. Johnson/Dual Enrollement ext.254