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Yo soy excitado por la clase de Español 4. Yo quiero aprender mas español. Yo quiero hablar español antes de mi graduación 

Congratulations to the boys soccer team, who played very well in their first game of the season beating E&S 6-1. With Captain Jeff Schwartz scoring 2 goals, and Tomy Fleurine adding another in the first 5 minutes of the game, the team decided to play the rest of the game focusing on defense. Jhonas Dunakin did an amazing job at keeper, stopping 4 shots that looked to surely be goals, and 19 in total. Max Amar-Olkus scored his first goal for SLA as did Freshmen Jason Greene and Matt Willson. Owen Grzywinski, James Prell, Ethan Reese, Willy Willson, and Estefan Carrillo anchored a stout defense, although it looked like Willy wanted to be out on the ice again at times; as did Jacob Lotkowski, who in a great hustle play earned a very questionable yellow card. Ilker Erkut had 2 assists with William Derry, Alejandro Garcia, and Quinn Grzyzinski adding one each. Congratulations again to the boys soccer team.

Laptop Imaged 

- Follow these steps

• Login - turn on the computer

• User Name -  Student Account 13-14

• Pass code - it is blank, press the return key without typing anything in the password field

Laptop not in the cart 

- Follow there steps

This means your name is on the list below and you did not hand in materials or pay laptop insurance for last school year. You must hand in your material or pay the laptop insurance. Laptop insurance is $75.00 and a check can be made out to Science Leadership Academy or cash can both be given to your advisor. You will not receive your laptop until you have completed these steps.

1. pay or hand back materials
2. have your advisor email Ms. Hull stating that you have completed the steps
3. Ms. Hull will contact you about picking up your laptop

Name on the list below and you had your laptop over the summer - Follow these steps

1. Bring your laptop to Ms. Hull immediately, in room 301

Everyone who handed in a charger will get it back the first day regardless if they owe for materials or insurance. 

·       Hacer una cuenta en www.quizlet.com (Usa tu email / contraseña de SLA)

·       Inicia sesión y practica el vocabulario por 15 minutes: http://quizlet.com/6411142/e4-u1-lady-gaga-v-dali-flash-cards/

Click here.

This first half of this list has words like "without a doubt" "however" "on the contrary."

This one has more useful phrases like "from my point of view" "Seriously?" "That's ridiculous."

Click here.

Welcome back!  

The following is the class schedule for Monday, September 9th.​  Please report to your advisory by 8:15am.  

8:15 - 10:05 Advisory

10:10 - 10:55 A

11:00 - 11:45 X

11:50 - 12:35 Y

12:40 - 1:25 B

1:30 - 2:15 C

2:20 - 3:05 D



Tuesday, September 10th

8:15 - 9:00 E

9:05 - 9:45 Advisory: Paperwork/Money Collection

9:50 - 10:50 A

10:55 - 11:55 Y

11:55 - 12:55 X

1:00 - 2:00 B

2:05 - 3:05 C

As a fundraiser to reduce the cost of the Junior prom and to help send SLA students to Liverpool England we will be selling lunches.The cost  will be $6  a day or if you pre pay for the 3 days it will be $15.  Lunch includes a sandwich, snack and drink. Please send in cash with students on the 1st day of the institute.  You can click the following link http://tinyurl.com/slalunch to preorder and lunches will be sent to your student's advisor.

contact: Mr. Bey - mbey@scienceleadership.org

Inquiry 

I talked to Ms. Dunda about my element in order to learn more about it. I hadn't even known about germanium until this project. She explained to me some of the scientific aspects.

Research

I researched the origins of germanium using multiple resources. I knew nothing about it until I was assigned the element and went on my own to research.

Collaboration 

I collaborated with Ms. Hull because my design was slightly complicated. She explained to me a way for me to easily determine the difference between negative and positive space.

Presentation 

I made 3 prints with my stamp and matted 2 of them. I used the colors silver and red which usually appear in the actual crest of Germany.

Reflection
I enjoyed this project immensely. I'd never done linoleum prints before and really enjoyed learning about them.

[Post Written by SLA Parent Sarah Stuart]

The SLA kids were awesome yesterday.  Leo Levy, Jordan McLaughlin, Mia Weathers-Fowler, Amy Chen, Goldie Robins and Taylor Thomas were articulate, powerful and magnificent.  They worked so hard and did SLA proud.

SLA parents were also amazing.  Anne Bigler, Arden Kass, Liz Hersh, Laura Schwingel, and Denise Larabee came through in each and every way.  Anne and Arden especially did a heavy lift in pulling together the letters excerpts, designing the posters and producing the "program" of our press event.  The event would NOT have happened without them.

It's an honor to be associated with such dedicated students and parents!  

Thank you to everyone at SLA who made yesterday possible!

Media Footage: Metro Philly

KYW News

Philly Magazine

CBS 3

Patriot News (Mia Weathers is quoted towards the end of this story)

Inquirer

Politic365

NBC10

One of SLA’s core values are to be able to reflect on the work you have done. This year I done this have more than your fingers and toes can count, projects that I am proud to call mine. But as a struggling student there are also work  which is not good, but it  have helped me get to the good ones. I have jumped from poetry to sweatshops nearly everything in the past months of working with Mr.Block. The best part of it I didn’t write for a grade I wrote to express what I was feeling.

One day I wrote a journal entry answering a question that was always going threw my head. On the board of our english journal read “​Why do humans so often treat each others badly? And ....  What different thing change this cycle of negative behavior towards others.”  As a child growing up in the 90’s generation I have to deal with those who judge others a lot. I always wonder why something that someone else is doing affects someone else. The kids I have to grow up with leaves me with questions I do not even know if there is an answer to. Something I was raised around is “Sticks and stones may break your bone, but words will never hurt.”  I had a mouth full of things to write down for this journal! One of the ones I loved. (To read everything I wrote you can click here (English Journal 6 ) )

Thew out this year I have learned a general understanding that can make my life easier. The grades you receive never reflect your intelligence, It reflects your work ethic. To me this means that I have way more understanding on something I just don’t express it. I maybe one of the nerves writes I know. I have that general understanding on a topic, but sometimes I don’t always know how to express it. As I grow and I reach my college education level I now know I need to express myself a little more. For my younger cousins and or any other younger person I would love to them to know

I would never imagining learning so much from a teacher who teaching me two different subjects. Mr. Block is my wonderful history and english teacher.  Mr.Block has help me open my eyes in the world in such ways you wouldn't believe it. This has left me with not only understandings on the world but on my own work. As a student who has had a tough time in english and history I would never expect there is not only a fun way to learn but also an understanding way. I knew about the wonderful work Mr.Block has done because of one of his former students, but boy she didn’t inform me about this.

Here is some links to my work https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1Vb-

https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1c7s1rJmnZNQzDfwLSu0b_4R33WxZO6tGiBiTmdaEzlo/editMPiK2Q4eMqxk9HRoYKfzCUEmoL-Q-GN1P1pp2yrE/edit

​1. Inquiry: I researched my element and it was kind of challenging because my element was a noble gas that didn't do much. After researching for a while I came up with a creative idea for my print. 

2. Research: Like I said before my research was kind of a challenge but after searching for a while I thought about it. I think that my idea was original and creative for such a boring element. 

3. Collaboration: Mrs. Hull helped me a lot because she helped me pick my best idea. She also helped me edit it, after the changes my idea was a lot better. I also helped out some of my classmates if they got confused. 

4. Presentation: My presentation could have been better. If i had switched where the negative space was in my print it would have looked a lot better. In my opinion my colors are not dark enough and it would have been better opposite. 

5. Reflection: When I reflect on my prints I wish that I could re-do them because I think they could have come out a lot better. I think that they were pretty good for my first try though and even though I don't like them, I am proud of them. 

Originally, I was supposed to do the project involving negative space, using elements as the topic. The process of the entire thing was pretty good. It mainly involved constant sketching, getting feedback from Ms. Hull, and returning to my sketchbook in order to revise whatever seemed to be out of place in the drawing. This went on for a while. Once it was brought to my attention exactly how the sketches would be used, I panicked, practically dreading art class from that moment on. 

We were all warned that linoleum cutters were these sharp, almost dangerous if used incorrectly tools. Now, had this been before, I would've jumped at the chance at attempting to use something with such risk added onto it. However, as soon as the warning stretched onto the fact that if you were to accidentally lose control of the blade, and it happened to puncture the skin, the results seemed fatal. Avoiding giving off some entire life story over a blog post, I considered the tool to be a personal danger. After an email session with Hull, followed by a pretty long conversation, I was in the clear to do something less, sharp, if you will, and was allowed to do a few simple sketches. I decided to draw a few pictures in the style of manga. In a way, they actually correlate to the essential questions and core values.

Inquiry: 
Before being able to do this mini-project, a few questions had to be asked. 'Why do you feel as though you aren't able to complete the element project?' 'What would be most helpful to you, as a student?' And, 'What would make you feel more comfortable,' were just a few pieces to this value. 

Research: 
I poured a lot of research into this, beforehand. Learning how to draw different hairstyles, eyes, expressions, and facial features were some of the basics, before I moved into a few more advanced topics, such as keeping everything aligned, and giving the characters a more animated look. 

Collaboration: 
Throughout the project, I collaborated with both my teachers, and my peers. The various critiques I'd ask from people probably had to be my biggest source of this value. 

Presentation: 
Each drawing has been, 'presented,' to someone at least once. By posting them online, one could also consider that a form of presentation.

Reflection: 
This very blog post! Thinking of what exactly were my highest and weakest points within the project also helped greatly within the creation of the reflection. 

In this project we had to incorperate the five values. I believe that research is incorperated in this project, because we had to do research on our elements to be able to know what type of design to make. Collaboration was included in this project, because we had to paint the tiles and this took collaboration, because we all had to work together. Presentation: we didn't stand up and present, but we did present by uploading our element print pictures. This is a reflection, what I'm writing is me reflecting on everything I've done over the process of this project. Inquiry is something we needed for this project. 

Inquiry: There were many questions that I had about the project but didn’t ask. These questions weren’t asked because they were eventually answered during the process. 

Research: Because I had questions the best way to answer them was with research. Through research I was able to answer all of my questions. 

Collaboration: During this project I had to collaborate with others for help and to help. Helping them with painting and them helping me with carving. 

Presentation: This print will be on the school walls and on this blog below the reflection. The print was made with effort and creativity. 

Reflection: Even though I find my design interesting if I did this project again it would be different. I would think of something else that has to do with fluorine.