Ms Connect February 2016

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February 2016
ACS Connect
Middle School Edition
SATRO STEM Challenge

ACS Middle and High School
students took part in the
local competition on 26
January. Teams were
instructed to use the
materials provided to
construct a timer that would
light a bulb. Regional finals
will be held in the ACS
Sports Centre on 17 March.
In this issue you will find information about resources and events you can connect with in February
and beyond. Please keep an eye on the Highly Able Weebly tab Open Enrichment Activities for
updates: http://highlyable.weebly.com/ open-enrichment-opportunities.html
Digital Creativity Workshop
Reading Groups Update
and using our guiding text, How to
February 8th and 10th after school
There are three different reading
Read Literature like a Professor to aid
From 15:45-16:30, Grades 8-10
groups currently taking place in the
our interpretation of the landscape
Middle School; these groups are
imagery and Gothic elements. The
inclusive opportunities for students to
Grade 7 & 8 Group has been reading
enrich their reading practice and
Loraine Hansberrys play A Raisin in
explore challenging texts. In January
the Sun, with a focus on symbolism
Grade 5 students read the Ray
and the features of drama. Interested
Bradbury short story, There Will
students are welcome to drop by for a
Come Soft Rains and discussed the
reading session with their grade level
literary legacy of dystopian science
group during recess. Grade 5 meets in
fiction. Grade 6 students have been
LG11 on Tuesday, Grade 6 and 7 & 8
reading the Edgar Allen Poe short
meet in the Middle School library on
story, The Fall of the House of Usher,
Wednesdays.
Are you looking for an opportunity to

hone your digital skills? Come check
out this student-led workshop on
creativity through technology. Over
two sessions you will learn about lightpainting techniques to create unique
images with a battery-powered device
that uses persistence of vision to create
floating image. Places in this workshop
are limited. Please contact Ms
Herschleb to reserve your place.
BBC 500 Word Short Stories

This exciting short story competition invites students from 5-13 to tell an engaging story. Its
very simple. You write an original story on any subject or theme in 500 Words or fewer and
submit it online. If you win, your story will be read live on the radio by a superstar
celebritylike Sir Kenneth Branagh, Jeremy Irons, Hugh Bonneville or Sherlock himself
Benedict Cumberbatch. If you have an idea for a story or want help with any aspect of the
process, please stop by for creative writing sessions in LG11 during Thursday recess.
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Book Recommendations from

Librarian Ms. Hollyfield
Varjak Paw, by S.F. Said
Varjak Paw is a Mesopotamian Blue kitten.
He lives high up in an old house on a hill.
He's never left home, but then his
grandfather tells him about the Way a
secret martial art for cats. Now Varjak
must use the Way to survive in a city full
of dangerous dogs, cat gangs, and strangest
of all, the mysterious Vanishings...
The Girl Who Circumnavigated
Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own
Making, by Catherynne M Valente
This story follows 12 year old September,
who leads a very un-exciting life in
Omaha, so when the Green Wind and
Leopard of Little Breezes turns up at her
kitchen window, she can't help but agree
to go on an adventure to Fairyland.
Opportunities Around London

Worlds Elsewhere: How
ticking, and every moment he spends
Shakespeare Went Global", A
remembering how things used to be
Talk by Andrew Dickson
means another moment closer to
Tuesday 16 February 2016, 7 pm
something that will change his life
Anti-apartheid activist, Bollywood
forever. Dont miss this theatrical
screenwriter, hero of the Wild West:
adaptation of a popular ACS Middle
this is Shakespeare as you have never
School reading choice.
seen him before. Andrew Dickson has

traced the impact of the Bards words
across four continents, six countries
and 400 years to discover just how one
man from Stratford-upon-Avon
became an international
phenomenon. Join Andrew as he
The book recommendations this month are
both Graphic Novels. If youd like to learn
more about how authors and artists use
this medium to tell stories in a unique
way, make time to watch Michael
Chaneys illuminating TED talk, "Learning
to See the Social, or How to Read a
Graphic Novel". The talk explores how
this complex medium makes abstractions
visible through distortion and caricature
and that panels are not always what they
seem. http://tinyurl.com/gw9z8p9
shares his insights into what

Shakespeare means across the world,
and throughout the years.
Otherworlds: Visions of our

Solar System at the Natural
History Museum through 15 May
Otherworlds explores the beauty of
our solar system and demonstrates that
the visual legacy of six decades of
space exploration. A free scientific
audio commentary is available for the
exhibition, offering additional
perspectives on the photographs and
Private Peaceful Presented by
an opportunity to hear from scientists
The Yvonne Arnaud Youth
about the Museum's cutting-edge
Theatre: 18-20 February 2016
research.
As young Thomas Peaceful looks back

over his childhood from the
battlefields of the First World War,
his memories are full of family life
deep in the countryside. The clock is

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Middle School Edition

SATRO STEM Challenge

Reading Groups Update

and using our guiding text, How to

February 8th and 10th after school

There are three different reading

Read Literature like a Professor to aid

From 15:45-16:30, Grades 8-10

groups currently taking place in the

our interpretation of the landscape

Middle School; these groups are

imagery and Gothic elements. The

inclusive opportunities for students to

Grade 7 & 8 Group has been reading

enrich their reading practice and

Loraine Hansberrys play A Raisin in

explore challenging texts. In January

the Sun, with a focus on symbolism

Grade 5 students read the Ray

and the features of drama. Interested

Bradbury short story, There Will

students are welcome to drop by for a

Come Soft Rains and discussed the

reading session with their grade level

literary legacy of dystopian science

group during recess. Grade 5 meets in

fiction. Grade 6 students have been

LG11 on Tuesday, Grade 6 and 7 & 8

reading the Edgar Allen Poe short

meet in the Middle School library on

story, The Fall of the House of Usher,

Are you looking for an opportunity to

BBC 500 Word Short Stories

Book Recommendations from

Opportunities Around London

ticking, and every moment he spends

Shakespeare Went Global", A

remembering how things used to be

Talk by Andrew Dickson

means another moment closer to

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 7 pm

something that will change his life

Anti-apartheid activist, Bollywood

forever. Dont miss this theatrical

screenwriter, hero of the Wild West:

adaptation of a popular ACS Middle

this is Shakespeare as you have never

School reading choice.

seen him before. Andrew Dickson has

shares his insights into what

Otherworlds: Visions of our

Private Peaceful Presented by

an opportunity to hear from scientists

The Yvonne Arnaud Youth

about the Museum's cutting-edge

Theatre: 18-20 February 2016

As young Thomas Peaceful looks back

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