3.13.10 This Week @ Eastwood
CALENDAR
3/9
- 3:40-4:40 English Tutorials (10th)
- 3:40-4:40 Homework/Independent Test Prep (Library)
- 3:40-4:40 Math Tutorials (9th and 11th)
- 3:40-5:00 Open Computer Lab (Platt)
- 5:00-7:00 Adult GED Class (Distance Lab)
- 5:30 PTO Board Meeting
- 6:00 General Meeting of PTO
3/10
- 3:40-4:40 Scrabble Club
- 3:40-4:40 Homework/Independent Test Prep (Library)
- 3:30-4:30 Social Studies Tutorials
- 3:40-5:00 Music Club
- 3:30-5:00 Running Club (NEW)
- 5:00-7:00 Adult ESL/Citizenship Class (Distance Lab)
3/11
- 11:40 Staff Meeting
- 3:40-5:00 Open Computer Lab (Platt)
- 3:40-4:40 Science Tutorials
- 3:40-4:40 Homework/Independent Test Prep (Library)
- 4:30 – 8:30 Science Family Night @ the Museum of Natural Science
- 5:00-7:00 Adult GED Classes
3/12 – Girl Scouts were founded in 1912
- 8:30-2:30 Reconnect Youth Field Trip
- 3:40-4:40 Video Games Club (Vance)
- 3:40-5:00 Open Computer Lab (Platt)
- 3:40-4:40 Homework/Independent Test Prep (Library)
- 5:00-7:00 Adult ESL/Citizenship Class
3/13
- SAT
- 9:00-1:00 PM SAT Prep class
3/14 – Daylight Savings Time Begins (clocks spring forward); Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein
3/15 – “The Ides of March); 3.16; 3/17 St. Patrick’s Day; 3/18; & 3/19 – SPRING BREAK
3/20 – The Spring Equinox; International Earth Day 3/22 – The first movie was shown to an audience in Paris, 1895 3/23 3/24 3/25 3/26 3/27 3/28
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HAPPY BIRTHDAYS 
· 2/23 Carla Ayala
· 2/24 Baltazar Pacheco, Herminio Ramirez
· 2/26 Stalina Martinez, Coraima Martinez
· 2/27 Paul Guerrero
· 2/28 Yecenia Flores
· 3/1 Marleni Vargas
· 3/3 Daniel Molina
· 3/8 Aida Silva
· 3/9 Bryan Ayala
· 3/10 Lili Varela-Radliff
· 3/15 Rodrigo Bahena, Joshua Presas
· 3/18 Valeria Gomez
· 3/21 Jaclyn De Leon, Juan Lopez
· 3/22 Ismael Almaguer
· 3/24 Lizeth Muniz, Ms. Lowe
· 3/27 Abigail Nava
· 3/28 Nohemy Aguirre, Maria Gonzales
IDEAS
Do you have any ideas about how you would like HISD to spend the $7.5 million on the Eastwood expansion wing? If so, send your ideas to a member of the Shared Decision-Making Committee or to Mr. Trevino.
SCIENCE FAMILY NIGHT: 3/11 Mark your calendar now for Eastwood’s first annual Science Family Night on March 11 from 5-8 PM at the Museum of Natural Science. The price is only $7 per adult (usually $27) and children under three are free. Eastwood will make arrangements for bus transportation for parents and children between Eastwood and the museum.
If you are interested in this exciting evening entitled “The Wonder of magic Exhibition,” please get your money and bus reservations in early to Ms. Cooper in Room T-131. The deadline is March 3, 2010.
STARBUCKS IS COMING! A Starbucks coffee (tea and hot chocolate) machine will be delivered to the library sometime during the week immediately after Spring Break! Ms. Dravis reports that the Starbucks machine will be available for student and staff use from 7:30 AM until library closing time. The machine will be located inside the library, and all users are encouraged to enjoy the beverages and clean up after themselves.
NEW BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY The library received a number of new books for its collection. Most of these books are often seen on reading lists for Advanced Placement (AP) classes. All the books can be easily identified by the large black AP stickers located at the base of the spine.
Some of the new titles include: 1984, Brave New World, Catch-22, Doctor Faustus, The Color Purple, Dracula, Far from the Madding Crowd, Frankenstein, The Great Divorce, Heart of Darkness, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Jungle, Madame Bovary, Metamorphosis, Moby Dick, Mrs. Dalloway, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Origin of Species, The Power of One, The Shipping News, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, Waiting for Godot, War and Peace, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
The library has five copies of each of these titles and all the titles have been labeled with color coded AR reading levels, if available.
Wishes Would you like to request a title for our library? If so, let Ms. Dravis know and she will add it to the library Wish List.
Who’s your guardian??? Art teacher Dr. Littlefield has given a very creative assignment to her Art 1 class students. They are to “create guardians.” She wants her students to create a sculpture of what a special guardian might look like. The supplies needed for this project are things found, other than art supplies. Students will construct their personal vision of their guardians by cutting wood, hot-gluing fabric or other found objects. Not only will students learn how to become constructive workers but will also learn how to be creative with the simplest found objects.
If you would like to see samples of guardians completed by students in earlier years, visit the library where some are displayed at the top of the bookshelves. - Janeen Gutierrez
Lorenzo De Zavala The Lorenzo De Zavala Youth Legislative Session (LDZ) is a high school-age leadership program sponsored by the National Hispanic Institute (NHI). Started in 1983, the overall challenge of the LDZ is for the students to envision themselves as part of the future leadership of the 21st century Latino community. Students who want to attend any NHI program must submit an application with both their parent and counselor signatures, along with a student photo and list of accomplishments. They must also submit a transcript and be enrolled in a college-bound or honors curriculum. Additional students may be nominated by NHI alumni. This year NHI alumni, Sylvia De La Cruz and Lorena Argueta have worked with the following students who are interested in participating in the program during the summer of 2010: Gisela Salgado, Edwin Rivas, Isidro Garcia, Abigail Nava, Maria Ortuno, Hugo Rodriguez, Miranda Ramirez, William Solomon, and Karen Rodriguez.
The LDZ program involves gathering student participants at college and university campuses around the country for eight to 10 days. This year Eastwood students will be attending the LDS gathering in Rochester, New York. Applicants are required to pay tuition for the training and services they receive. The LDZ tuition is $695, including a $20 non-refundable application fee. This does not include transportation.
To help applicants, Eastwood Academy has paid for the application fee for the students going to New York. Our students have also received scholarships that cover a big portion of the tuition. They will also have fundraisers to raise money for their plane tickets, and are looking for sponsors. Sylvia De La Cruz attended the LDZ meetings last summer in Georgetown, Texas, at the Southwestern University, and she will be attending again this summer as a counselor. Lorena Argueta also participated in this program last year, and she went to Panama City, Panama during the summer. -Ana Rodriguez
On Saturday, February 27, 2010, Eastwood students attended a field trip to Texas A&M University The field trip was planned to give students the opportunity to learn all about how it really is in college. The field trip was mostly for students interested in physics and engineering. They will learn how rigorous the programs are, and the amount of homework students should expect once they are in college. -Yesenia Castañeda
SPRING BREAK POLL
A poll of Eastwood students about their plans for Spring Break revealed the following:
68% Stay home and chill
25% Go out of town
45% Find a party
7% Don’t know
98% Enjoy the time away from school
2% Anxious to come back to school
-Brenda De La Cruz
No Off Campus Lunch. What’s really the issue? The decision to cancel the off-campus lunch privilege is in the best interest for all the students, according to Mr. Trevino, Eastwood’s principal. Many students don’t seem to think so.
Mr. Trevino explained that not only was it the tardiness of the students that was one of the precipitating reasons for his action, but he, as Eastwood’s principal, also is held accountable for the students’ actions during school hours, including the lunch period. In the Eastwood community, there are many opportunities where students might encounter difficulties and even harm while off campus. Problems may arise whether it’s just walking one block the to Jack-In-The-Box or down to the Snow Cone Stand. During the lunch period, students are still Mr. Trevino’s responsibility and he would hate for anything to happen to any one student.
Even though the students aren’t exactly pleased with the idea of no more off-campus lunch privileges, Mr. Trevino believes that this change has resulted in a rise in leadership with students wanting to sell food things during lunch and organizing activities of togetherness during the lunch period. He sees this as an opportunity for the student body to develop a stronger sense of community and to begin to feel more like a family. He has even seen that some students are bringing lunch for fellow students. - Miriam Villanueva
Summer Plans Summer is just three months away and now is the time to plan for your summer activities. If you are interested in participating in any college programs, application deadlines are coming up (or have already passed.)
Some interesting summer programs are listed below:
· Rice University will open its doors this summer to high school students beginning June 7-July 30, 2010. The summer camp offers college courses, ACT and SAT prep classes, and allows the students to stay overnight in the dorms. If any of you wish to participate in this program, fill out the requirements at http://www.rice.edu/ by March 26, 2010.
· Summer Programs for High School and College Students http://www.fastweb.com/college-search/articles/787-summer-programs-for-high-school-and-college-students
· National Hispanic Youth Initiative in Health, Biomedical Research, and Policy Development (NHYI), held in Washington, D.C.http://www.icps.org/Portals/44/Documents/NHYI%20APPLICATION%202010%20online.pdf
· Smithsonian Latino Center’s Young Ambassadors Program http://www.latino.si.edu/PDF/2010_YAP_Application_Guidelines.pdf
· The Summer Minority Engineering Training (SUMMET) www.mines.edu/stu_life/mep/Student_Opportunities/
· Summer program at the University of Houston for rising seniors, Mentoring & Enrichment Seminar in Engineering Training (MESET) http://www.egr.uh.edu/promes/camps/
· Lamar University summer camps for high school students (and students of all ages) http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000017794
There are many, many, many opportunities to learn about college this summer on a college campus. These are just a few. -Emily Hernandez and Selena Delgado
English Department TAKS Report The English department worked really hard to prepare students for the recent ELA TAKS test for all students in 9th, 10th, and 11th grades. Teachers offered tutorials for added support to ensure that the students here at Eastwood had all the necessary preparation to pass the test. Testing was held on Wednesday, March 3rd.
Prior to the test, the English teachers focused on the writing skills of the students rather than analytical ability because they believe that if students can write a great essay, they will master the reading comprehension part of the test as well. -Gerardo Briano
