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HIGH SCHOOL
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IMPORTANT DATES
As we settle into the routine of school, I am drawn to reflect upon our theme for
the school year. One of our core philosophies is to provide our students with an
intellectual journey using our developmental approach. We want to teach them
to know that it takes courage and love to learn and find their passion for living.
At the beginning of this school year, I challenged
students to be kind to one another and to join with
me to make ours a profanity free school. I asked them
to develop a growth mindset by learning from their
mistakes, reflecting on these mistakes and working hard. As I look around me
know, I see that our students are working hard and have the courage it takes to
be kind, and that we are on our way to becoming a profanity free school.
I challenged students to add respect to our theme of courage and love. We
asked them to have respect for their family and school by wearing their uniform
with pride each day. It speaks volumes about our student body when wear their
proper uniform every single day. It shows that they have respect for
themselves, their school and their learning.
To love learning is about doing your personal best each and every day. I have
shared with students that in order for our continuous progress/mastery
learning philosophy to work, they must do their personal best. They must make
sure to meet the deadlines on assignments. When students prepare their best
effort and then turn it in on time, teachers are able to provide them with timely
feedback. Students then have the opportunity to learn from their mistakes and
engage in corrective activities, retest, or rewrite assignments that show they
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Care, Love and Respect
In Principal
Steven M. Beyer
Find all college events in table below.
Tuesday, October 13 Mid terms go home 5:00 - 8:00 PM - Rollerama Night
Wednesday, October 14 - PSAT for 9th, 10th and 11th grade students
Friday October 16 Spiritwear Day - MSU vs. UM 9:15 AM - Beluga Ball mtg at CSPA 6:00 - 10:00 PM - Fall Ball, dinner
included (see page 2)
Monday, October 19, 9:00 - 11:00 AM School Picture Retakes, info here: Purchase online here. Use Picture
Day ID #LM515727Y1 Paper order form
Thursday, October 22
HALF DAY OF SCHOOL, Comprehensive Student reviews in afternoon/evening
See the Lunch OOOPS on page 2
Friday, October 23 - Comprehensive Student reviews afternoon/evening
Sunday, October 25 - Charyl’s RUN2BFIT Spooktacular!
Monday, October 26, 6:00 PM - Fall Athletics Banquet at CSPA
Wednesday, October 28, 7:00 PM - NHS/NJHS Induction Ceremony
Thursday, October 29 - Spiritwear Day -Pink Out (HS only)
Friday, October 30, 8:00 AM - noon - Senior Pictures
Friday, November 6, 10:00 - 11:00 AM - Musical Performance Assembly at CSA
Saturday, Nov. 7, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM - NHS Rake and Run
find out more information about this event in the main Tuesday Times
CSPA High School Upcoming College Events
Thursday, October 15, 2:00 - 2:30 PM
Albion College Admissions Presentation for juniors and seniors in High Bay Area
Wednesday, October 21 2:00 - 2:30 PM
Central Michigan University (CMU) Admissions Presentation for juniors and seniors in High Bay Area
Monday, October 26 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Art College Expo at Novi Civic Center for Art, Choir and Band students
Tuesday, October 27 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor tour for sophomores
Tuesday, October 27 2:00- 2:30 PM
Western Michigan University (WMU) Admissions Presentation for juniors and seniors in High Bay Area
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Charyl Stockwell Preparatory Academy
1032 Karl Greimel Drive Brighton, MI 48116
(810) 225-9940 www.csaschool.org
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Steven M. Beyer, CSPA Principal [email protected]
Brenda Ogden, Dean of Students [email protected]
ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT
Amy Knickerbocker, HS Secretary [email protected]
HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY
Nick Cavaleri [email protected]
Brendan Cornelissen [email protected]
Ann Henri [email protected]
Jessica Highfield [email protected]
Elizabeth Holland [email protected]
Karl Knipple [email protected]
Bridget Rock [email protected]
Philip Smith [email protected]
Chelsea Szczembara [email protected]
Matthew Stewart [email protected]
Aaron Brown [email protected]
Tobias Mixer [email protected]
Jessica Perry [email protected]
have learned and mastered at a high level, the concepts that they are being
taught. Please encourage your students to meet their teachers’ assignment
guidelines and do their very best. This will give them the chance to really grow
as learners and build on our theme for the year.
Finally, our staff is focused on teaching students the value of hard work. As
adults, we know that we have to work hard every single day in order to be
productive and to be considered valuable members of our team at work. It is
through hard work that students develop a growth mindset that is vital for
their success as an adult. We want our students to understand the value of
hard work, both at home and at school. They must know that they are
expected to work hard on their assignments when they first receive them and
that it takes hard work and planning to meet deadlines. When students learn
that now, it will translate into their adult lives. They will know need to work
hard every day in order to have a productive work life and a happy family, and
love the life they create.
Care Gives us Courage and Love Lets us Learn. This is how students learn the
value and skill of hard work, meeting deadlines, and even though it may be
difficult to do their personal best all the time, if they have the courage to
persevere, they will love the outcome. This is how they learn respect, hard
work and the growth that is necessary to make this is an amazing school year.
FALL BALL
Please don’t forget that this Friday is our High School Fall Ball at
Chemung Hills. The event begins promptly at 6:00 PM with a formal dinner so
we would ask that students plan to arrive right on time. The event ends at
10:00 PM, so keep that in mind as you plan for your student’s pick up. Tickets
are $20 each and available for purchase until tomorrow (Wednesday). No
tickets will be sold at the door.
Lunch Ooops!
We goofed! Students will be in school for only a half-
day on Thursday, October 22nd. If you have ordered
pizza for lunch for your student on Thursday, October
22nd, please return to the lunch ordering system
before noon by THIS Friday, October 16th and cancel your order for Thursday,
October 22nd. We apologize for the inconvenience! Questions? Contact Deb
Curcuru at [email protected] or call or text to 810-599-5362.
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ENGLISH 11 / Szczembara & Highfield
This week, students completed their survival books. They
worked on a creative summative assessment today and
will present their project in class tomorrow. Presentations
will be completed by Thursday and students will then
have time to work on their analytical paper for their
survival book. On Friday, students will continue working
on their analytical paper and will individually conference
with Mrs. Szczembara and Ms. Highfield. Analytical
papers are due next Monday, October 19th.
ESSAY AND ANALYSIS / Jessica Highfield
This week we are looking at exemplary first essays,
celebrating successes and discussing areas for
improvement on upcoming essays. Students will begin
keeping an in-class writing portfolio which will contain
their most polished essays to carry with them
throughout high school. Additionally, we are starting to
read creative nonfiction pieces that focus on places of
significance. In the upcoming weeks students will be
drafting, revising and editing their own creative
nonfiction piece about a place.
PHYSICS / Karl Knipple
We are discussing two dimensional kinematics and the
motions of projectiles. Students should be able to begin
a project on projectiles.
AP PHYSICS / Karl Knipple
We continue our discussion of kinematics and projectiles
to be sure that students have a strong grasp on the
concepts and how to use the various equations. Once
they feel comfortable with how to use and rearrange the
equations to determine what needs to be found, we will
start wrapping up the unit.
CHEMISTRY / Karl Knipple
We are discussing quantum theory which relates to the
electrons surrounding the atom and the different
energy levels. We are also looking at
how to determine the different
energy level for the electrons of each
atom using the Periodic Table.
US HISTORY & LIT / Smith, Szczembara, Stewart, Highfield
Today, students completed their unit on the Industrial
Revolution and Realism with an integrated assessment
which required them to analyze part of the text from
The Jungle with realism literature and make connections
to their knowledge gained from the Rouge Factory Trip
and the history of the Industrial Revolution. Our next
unit ,beginning on October 19th, will cover the Roaring
20s. This week, we will comprehensively review the
causes and effects of World War I. Students should
continue reading their non-fiction books in order to be
ready for another journal assignment this Friday.
CIVICS / Smith & Stewart
This week students are presenting projects that focus
on the use of nonviolent principles in both historical and
contemporary context. As the week progresses,
students will conclude the unit on civil disobedience
with lessons that focus on facing resistance and
educational/economic inequality.
DEBATE / Philip Smith
Students are researching the topic of video games and
age-appropriate violence. They will debate the
statement, “Video games with violence should not be
allowed for children under the age of 18.”
PSYCHOLOGY / Bridget Rock
Students continue to work on their current unit covering
the nervous system, sensation/perception, motivation/
emotion and states of consciousness. They will demon-
strate understanding with a unit exam on Thursday.
AP PSYCHOLOGY / Bridget Rock
Students started their next unit on sensation and
perception last week. They will dissect sheep eyes and
brains during this unit while also continuing to practice
free response questions for the AP test.
AP LANGUAGE & COMPOSITION / Chelsea Szczembara
This week we are focusing on periodic sentences and
parallel structure, and revising wordy sentences for
more effective and clear syntax. Students will take short
concept checks at the start of each class and a grammar
and syntax test next week.
From the Faculty
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AP CHEMISTRY / Karl Knipple
We are wrapping up stoichiometry and how to quantify
chemical equations and will finish with a unit test. After
the Unit is finished, we will start discussing gases and
the wonderful equations that allow us to better
understand their qualities.
ZOOLOGY / Bridget Rock
Students continue to work on their Animal Phyla unit.
On Wednesday, they will take a mini-test on Chapter 8:
Animal-like Protists.
ANATOMY MUSCLES / Bridget Rock
This week, students are working on their new unit: the
circulatory system which covers the components of
blood, the heart and the vascular system. Students will
demonstrate understanding with an inquiry based lab
mid-week.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE / Bridget Rock
Students continue to work on their Ecology unit this
week. They will demonstrate understanding with a lab
early in the week and a project at the end of the week.
INTEGRATED SCIENCE & MATH 1 / Knipple & Cavaleri
We continue working with graphing calculators to make
tables and graphs.
INTEGRATED SCIENCE & MATH 2 / Knipple & Cavaleri
We are finishing our lesson about multivariable linear
equations and will then begin our final lesson of the first
unit about systems of linear equations.
INTEGRATED MATH 3 / Nick Cavaleri
This week we are starting statistical proofs and
reasoning. After that, we will study over the first four
lessons and then students will take a unit test sometime
early next week.
AP CALCULUS BC / Brendan Cornelissen
This week, students continue learning how to find deriva-
tives. They are focusing on implicit differentiation as well
as the inverses of trigonometric functions. Students are
working in pairs trying to solve very challenging problems
and will then explain their answers to the class.
AP CALCULUS AB / Brendan Cornelissen
Students continue learning about derivatives this week.
They are learning about the power rule, the product
rule and the quotient rule. These rules will make the
process of finding derivatives much easier. Students will
take a quiz on Friday.
AP STATISTICS / Brendan Cornelissen
Students continue learning about probability this week.
They are focusing on experiments dealing with simple
and compound events as well as the equations for
combinations and permutations.
STATISTICS & PROBABILTY / Brendan Cornelissen
Students just completed Chapter 3 which focused on
central tendency. This week, they will focus on the
concept of probability Students are working on experi-
ments that are related to probability as a way to achieve
a deeper understanding of the material. They are also
learning about the real life applications of probability.
INTEGRATED MATH FOUNDATIONS 1 / Cornelissen
Students just completed the first unit on equations and
have started their unit on graphing. They will begin by
graphing points in the four quadrants and then move on
to the idea of slope in terms of a graph and also the
equation.
INTEGRATED MATH FOUNDATIONS 2 / Cornelissen
Students continue to learn about graphing functions.
This week they are focusing on graphing quadratic
functions as well as learning how to determine the x
and y intercepts. They are also determining how to
graph inequality graphs for linear functions.
HEALTH / Nick Cavaleri
We are working on nutritional facts and looking at food
labels. The essay on obesity is due this Friday.
SPANISH 1 & 2 / Holland & Highfield
This week we continue our work on the school unit.
Today we had an in-class “quiz bowl” to review for the
quiz and to practice our skills as a group. On Thursday,
students will take a quiz on the first half of the unit. On
Friday, they will write their weekly journal about the
class schedule and share opinions about their schedule
and school experience.
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SPANISH 3 & 4 / Elizabeth Holland
This week, students continue their work on “The year it
rained tortillas,” a story about a population of Jewish
people who were driven out of Spain during the Spanish
Inquisition and settled in the southwest United States.
This story has provided the basis for rich conversations
regarding present day conflicts that originated in the 6th
century between Jews, Muslims and Christians. Students
will take a quiz on Thursday based on the cultural context
questions that they completed last week.
AP SPANISH / Elizabeth Holland
This week, students continue to read and discuss topics
related to the Spanish Conquest of the new world. They
are examining concepts such as cultural memory, native
versus conqueror perspectives and present day outcomes.
MUSIC APPRECIATION / Jessica Perry
We are finishing our survey of music history by
exploring the Romantic Music Period. We will take a
deeper look into Berlioz’s program music, Schumann’s
music critiques and Opera. Today, students received
their timeline project and review for the music history
test. They will take their second listening quiz this
Friday, October 16th. The timeline and music history
test are both on Monday, October 19th. Reminder:
Concert Reviews are due on November 20th.
MUSIC THEORY II/ Jessica Perry
This week we are focusing on four-part voice leading,
applying composing rules dating back to the time of J. S.
Bach.
CHORALE / Jessica Perry
Students are working diligently on their concert
repertoire for the November concert. We continue to
work on personal and ensemble sound quality, harmony,
rhythm reading, and balance.
MUSIC THEORY I / Jessica Perry
This week we continue working on perfect, major and
minor intervals and instrument transposition. Students
will take a concept check this Friday, October 16th on
the material they covered this week. Reminder: Concert
Reviews are due November 20th.
CHAMBER WINDS / Jessica Perry
Students are working diligently on their concert
repertoire for their November concert. We continue to
work on personal and ensemble sound quality, rhythm,
scales, warm ups, and overall blend. We are focusing on
jazz and chamber works this trimester.
On this day is 1792, the cornerstone was laid for the presidential residence in
the newly designated capital city of Washington. In 1800, President John
Adams became the first president to reside in the executive mansion, which
soon became known as the “White House” because its white-gray Virginia
freestone contrasted strikingly with the red brick of nearby buildings.
The city of Washington was created to replace Philadelphia as the nation’s
capital because of its geographical position in the center of the existing new
republic. French architect Charles L’Enfant designed the area’s radical layout, full of dozens of circles, crisscross
avenues, and plentiful parks. In 1792, work began on the neoclassical White House building at 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue. President George Washington chose the site.
In 1814, during the War of 1812, the White House was set on fire along with the U.S. Capitol by British soldiers in
retaliation for the burning of government buildings in Canada by U.S. troops. The burned-out building was
subsequently rebuilt and enlarged under the direction of James Hoban, who added east and west terraces to the
main building, along with a semicircular south portico and a colonnaded north portico. The smoke-stained stone
walls were painted white. Work was completed on the White House in the 1820s.