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Together We Make A Difference
May 2015
Day
Thurs.
Date
Time
Activity_________
7
6:00 pm
Mon.
11
7:30 pm
Fri.
15
Sat.
16
Tues.
19
Tues.
19
Tues.
19 12:00pm—8:00pm Art Exhibit– MS/HS
Gymnasium
Weds. 20
Fri.
22
Sat.
23
Mon.
25
Clinton County Board
Dinner @ Rainbow Room
HS Concert Auditorium
No School (unused snow day)
8:45-2:30
Five Hour Course
Volume 8 Issue 10
Top 10% Honored
On May 7th a banquet will be held at the
Rainbow Room in Altona sponsored by the
Clinton County School Boards to honor
students who are in the top 10% of the
senior class. Congratulations to the
following AVCS seniors:
Row 1: Emily Maicus, Naomi Cave,
Priscilla Coats, Alyssa Bechard
Row 2: Alexis Joy, Emily Patenaude,
Shelby Bourgeois, Hunter Guennel,
Kevin Strack
12:00pm—9:00pm Budget Vote /
Candidate Vote—MS/HS Caféteria
6:00pm
Board of Education Mtg.
MS/HS Conference Room
6:00pm
HS Academic Awards Auditorium
No School (Unused Snow Day)
7:00pm
Junior Prom Gym
No School Memorial Day
PHYSICALS—MANDATORY, SPORTS & WORKING
CARDS
Physicals for the 2015-2016 year will be held on Tuesday, May 19th and Thursday, May 28th. Please sign
up in the Health Office at least one week before physical date if your child:
 Will be a 7th or 10th grader
 Will participate in a sport
 Will need working papers for employment
**Physicals are only valid for one year for any of the
above reasons**
Honors Program Invitations
The Honors Program invitation letters will be sent out soon. The criteria
for receiving an invitation into the Honors Program is 90% average in
A1 English, Social Studies, Math, or Science class and the recommendation of the current teacher. Students will need to maintain that 90%
through fourth quarter and final exams in order to be scheduled into the
Honors class or classes. The first time a student is recommended for one
or more Honors classes they will need to write and submit an application
essay. Information on the essay criteria will be included with your student’s invitation letter. Once in an Honors class (8-12 grade), students
will need to maintain an 88% average for the year to continue in that
class for the next academic year. Honor’s applications and essays will
be due to Mrs. Brown by June 12, 2015.
AVCS ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL ART EXHIBIT
The annual Au Sable Valley CSD Art Exhibit will be
held on Tuesday, May 19th in the Middle-High School
Gymnasium from 12:00pm-8:00 pm. Please be sure to
stop and view the exceptional art talent displayed by
our very own AVCS students!
AVCS High School Insider
New York State Assemblywoman Janet Duprey paid a
special visit to AuSable Valley Central School District on
Monday, April 13, 2015. Assemblywoman Duprey met
with both middle school and high school students during
the school day. She was given the opportunity to sing
with the middle school chorus, complete a digestion
experiment, and meet with various classes to discuss her
duties as an assemblywoman. Following her classroom
visits, administrators gave Assemblywoman Duprey a
tour of the buildings to showcase recent renovations.
Assemblywoman Duprey had a wonderful time visiting
AuSable Valley Central School, and our district looks
forward to hosting her again in the near future.
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We were once again visited this year by the performers from
the Learning Arts . They were here for
two days of assemblies and workshops.
The jazz improvisation workshop was a
huge success. Other workshops included
both vocal and instrumental master
classes. Students prepared and performed
a solo piece of music, then they received
pointers from the professionals. It was a
little taste of what a college master class is
like. What a great opportunity for our
students.
Something Wicked This Way
Comes…
On March 17th, students in Madame Worthington’s French 4
class took their puppet show on the road and entertained
students in kindergarten, 1st , 2nd and 3rd grades in AuSable
Forks Elementary school. The script, rewritten in French by
the students, was based on the story of “The Three Little
Pigs”. The audience was very involved and learned some
French along the way.
Students involved were: Thorne Bola, Mark Whitney,
Dylan Murphy, Cole Baer and Jessica Malskis
Mrs. Doorey’s Creative Writing and
Novels classes recently traveled to
the Flynn Theater in Burlington,
Vermont to see The Acting Company of Chicago perform Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Before attending
the performance, students read a few
acts of the play, learned about iambic
pentameter and wrote sonnets. After
the performance, students had a lot
to express. Ally Beyer wrote, “The Acting Company put on a great
show! Lady Macbeth, played by Angela Janas, was an enthusiastic,
persuasive character.” Sarah Lincoln added, “The actors seemed
entranced when on stage. Macbeth, played by Gabriel Lawrence,
was believable.” Katherine McDonald was drawn to the set, which
included a simple brick wall with a door and a tree stump placed in
front of it. She also noted, “The lighting and sound effects portrayed
a feeling of intense eeriness, especially the actors’ voices.” Alex
Defayette wrote about the themes of greed and death. He observed,
“Death brings more death, and that kept the audience on the edge of
their seats the whole time.” Warren Daniels summed it up nicely
when he noted, “The script of Macbeth is incredible. It was written
by Shakespeare, for goodness sake.”
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Seniors….June Dates
ALGEBRA 2/TRIGONOMETRY REGENTS REVIEW
CLASSES 2015
Dates
Topic
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Relations and Functions
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Quadratics and Complex Numbers
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Logs and Exponents
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Solving Equations and Proving
Identities
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Rational Expressions
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Sequences and Series
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Law of Sines / Cosines and Area
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Probability and Statistics
All afternoon review sessions are from 2:45 to 3:50 PM. A 4 PM
bus is available for transportation home.
Students
may also come to room 511 everyday during E-Set to
review for the Algebra 2 Regents Exam.
There will be TWO mixed-topic review sessions held over Regents
week.
Session #1 – Wednesday, June 17, 2015
12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Session #2 – Thursday, June 18, 2015
8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Geometry Regents Review
The Regents Examination in Geometry will be held on Friday, June 19th in the afternoon (12:45pm). Review classes
will be held from 2:45 until 4:00 in room 507 to help students prepare for the exam. All geometry students are
invited to attend! The schedule for the classes is as follows:
______DATE________________TOPIC____________
May 5
Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
May 7
Thursday, June 25th—10:00AM
MANDATORY GRADUATION
REHEARSAL—Gymnasium
Thursday, June 25th—7:00PM
Senior Awards—Auditorium
Saturday, June 27th—10:00AM
Graduation—Gymnasium
Open Seating
Beginning the week of April 20th Mrs. North will offer
30 minute afterschool prep classes on Mondays and
Wednesdays to prepare for the SATS. ( Please note there
are no after-school buses on Mondays and Wednesdays.)
Mrs. North will cover regents skills after-school on
Tuesdays and Thursdays.
(There will be a 4 o’clock bus home on Tuesdays and
Thursdays)
Common Core Algebra I Regents Review
The Regents Examination in Common Core Algebra I will be
held on Wednesday, June 17 in the afternoon. Review classes
will be held after school from 3:00 until 4:00 in room 510 on
Tuesdays and Thursdays to help students prepare for the exam. There is transportation home from the school at 4:00. In
addition, a half day review class will be held on the morning of
June 17.
The schedule is as follows:
Locus
May 5
Date
Topic___________
Properties/Operations with Radicals
May 12
Logic
May 7
Operations with Polynomials
May 14
Transformations
May 12
Simple Equations and Inequalities
May 19
Triangle Congruency –Proofs
May 14
Advanced Equations and Inequalities
May 21
Proofs continued
May 19
Graphing Linear Functions
May 26
Geometry of the Circle
May 28
Geometry of the Circle
May 21
Factoring
June 4
Ratio/Proportion/Similarity
May 26
Solving Quadratic Equations
June 9
Constructions
May 28
Graphing Parabolas
June 11
Coordinate Geometry Proofs
June 4
Solving Linear and Quadratic Systems
June 16
8:45 to 11:30 Mixed Review
June 9
Functions, Transformations, Sequences
June 18
8:45 to 11:30 Mixed Review
June 11
Exponentials and Piecewise Functions
June 19
8:45 to 11:30 Mixed Review
June 17
8:30-11;30 Mixed Review
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June
2
June
16
June
17
June
18
June
19
June
22
June
23
June
24
TUESDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNES
DAY
EARLY
RELEASE
@ 11:45
8:45 a.m.
8:45 a.m.
8:45 a.m.
8:45 a.m.
8:45 a.m.
8:45 a.m.
8:45 a.m.
RE in
US History
&
Government
RE in
Global
History
& Geography
RE in
Integrated
Algebra
RE in
Physical
Setting/
Earth Sci.
RCT in
Global
Studies*
RE in
Physical
Setting/
Chemistry
RCT in
Reading
Sets A, B, C,
D&E
8TH Grade
Proficiencies
French &
Spanish
Algebra 2/
RCT in
Science*
Trigonometry
12:45 p.m.
12:45
p.m.
12:45
p.m.
12:45
p.m.
12:45
p.m.
12:45
p.m.
^RE in
Geometry I
(Common
Core)
RE in
Living Environment
Physical
Setting/
Physics
Comprehensive
English
Geometry
RCT in
Writing
LOTE
Exams
French &
Spanish
RE in
Algebra I
(Common
Core)
Students will
remain at
school after
dismissal to
take above
exam
12:45
p.m.
RCT in
US History
&
Government*
STUDENTS TAKING A MORNING EXAM WILL RIDE THEIR REGULAR BUS TO SCHOOL; STUDENTS WILL
BE TRANSPORTED HOME AT 12:15 FROM THE MORNING EXAM. STUDENTS TAKING AFTERNOON EXAMS
MAY PICK UP A BUS AT THE AUSABLE FORKS AND KEESEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, WHICH
LEAVES AT 12:00; BUSSES WILL TRANSPORT STUDENTS HOME FROM THE AFTERNOON EXAMS AT 3:00
OR UPON COMPLETION OF THEIR EXAM.
MORNING CV-TEC STUDENTS WILL RIDE THEIR REGULAR BUS TO THE MHS. STUDENTS WHO ATTEND
CV-TEC IN THE AFTERNOON WILL HAVE BUS PICK UP AS FOLLOWS: AFE-11:10 MHS-11:20 KES11:30
***IF YOU ARE TAKING A MORNING EXAM YOU MAY WANT TO INFORM YOUR BUS DRIVER ON WHICH
DAY YOU WILL BE RIDING THE BUS
STUDENTS —IF YOU ARE DRIVING OR
GETTING YOUR OWN TRANSPORTATION TO
YOUR EXAM, YOU MUST ARRIVE TO SCHOOL
BY 8:30AM FOR MORNING EXAMS AND
12:30PM FOR AFTERNOON EXAMS!
Pictured is Logan Vondell with
Matt Zebroski, the percussionist
for the Daisy Joplin Band.
Logan was a featured solo
performer for both performances on April 12th. The Jazz
Band performed two numbers
for the String Pulse Experiences
as well.
2015 SCIENCE ANDTECHNOLOGY FAIR
First Place
Sarah Edwards and Deryn Makowski
Silver Cleaning Electro Reaction
Second Place
Ali Sikandar and Lucas Perez
Musical Chemistry
Third Place
Kyle Hart—Clock Reaction Investigation
Yearbook Update:
It’s time to start paying off your yearbook! Yearbooks will be arriving soon. In
order for your student to receive their reserved copy of the 2015 Patriot Nation
yearbook, it MUST be paid for in full. Questions?
Contact Mrs. North or Ms. Bombard
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