School Start Time Reminder to Parents & Students that school starts at 8:00 am. If a student arrives less than 10 minutes late, it is considered a tardy. If they are more than 10 minutes late it is considered an unexcused absence for the day. Daily Announcements Ever wonder what school news students hear that you may be missing? All of our announcements, along with our athletic news, is posted daily to our website. Information is usually posted by mid-morning and can be found on the high school page at http://www.stoughton.k12.wi.us/page.cfm?p=535 Badger Girls State Applications are now available for Badger Girls State. Badger Girls State is a week long leadership experience that teaches partici-pants about the inner working of our government and the demo-cratic process. Junior girls from across the state are selected by their high schools to attend. If you are a current junior and are interested in attending, please stop by the Counseling Office for an application. Limited spots are available.

December 1,

2017 SHS Weekly News

CALENDAR OF EVENTS Friday, December 1 5:00 pm Boys JV Hockey 5:45 pm Boys JV/JV2 Basketball @ Edgewood 7:00 pm Boys Var Hockey 7:15 am Boys JV2/Var Basketball @ Edgewood Saturday, December 2 9:30 am JV/Var Wrestling Invitational 10:00 am Boys Var Swimming Invitational @ Janesville Craig 10:00 am Madrigal Singers caroling in downtown Stoughton 5:00 pm Girls Var Hockey @ Waupaca Expo Center 7:30 pm Boys Var Hockey Monday, December 4 6:30 pm Boys Var Reserve Basketball Tuesday, December 5 5:00 pm Boys JV Hockey 5:45 pm Girls JV/JV2 Basketball Fieldhouse/Gym 6:00 pm Boys JV/Var Swimming 7:00 pm Girls Var Hockey @ Telfer Park 7:00 pm Boys Var Hockey 7:15 pm Girls Var Basketball Thursday, December 7 7:30 pm Winter Band Concert 7:30 pm Var Wrestling @ UW Madison Friday, December 8 5:30 pm JV Wrestling 6:00 pm Boys Var Swimming @ Milton Saturday, December 9 TBD Var Dance Team Invitational @ Watertown 8:00 am Var Wrestling @ Chula Vista Dome-WI Dells 9:00 am JV Wrestling @ Waunakee 3:00 pm JV Hockey @ Oshkosh YMCA 5:00 pm Var Hockey @ Oshkosh YMCA 5:45 pm Girls JV Basketball @ Monroe 6:00 pm Madrigal Dinner in Cafetorium 7:15 pm Girls Var Basketball @ Monroe

HIGH SCHOOL CONTACT INFORMATION

Main Office: 877-5600

Attendance: 877-5600

Mr. Kruse, Principal: 877-5601

Ms. Hrodey, Assoc. Principal: 877-5605

Mr. Ashmore, Assoc. Principal: 877-5603

English Department Highlights

LA 9 Students in LA9 Classes are participating in literature circles, reading about different social

injustices. This unit is tied together with other events of discrimination that have been seen in

history and are still prevalent today. The students will then research other injustices in the world

and write about how they tie together in an overall theme paper. The ways students are learning

about these different social injustices are through reading different novels, full class discussions

on articles and documentaries, book talks, and research.

LA 10 The class takes a chronological approach to studying American Literature, as well as the

connection to the historical periods in which various works were written. For example, students

have read Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, and in the process looked more closely at the Salem

Witch Trials. Looking at some of Ben Franklin’s writings and the impact his thoughts and words

had on his Revolutionary Period contemporaries led to students considering topics they felt

strongly about and delivering persuasive speeches about them. Another important component

of class involves students selecting two independent novels to read (one each quarter), and

then analyzing these books in different ways . Classes will be still be studying various works

including Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily

Dickinson.

Literacy 9 and 10 The focus of the Literacy 9/10 is to provide additional reading support to students in our

Language Arts 9 and 10 classes. This class also provides frontloading of social studies and

biology materials for student success. Classes are currently reading independent novels using

text strategies for comprehension.

Public Speaking Students in Public Speaking are currently honing the skills of research, argumentation, and

persuasive speaking in Public Forum Debate. Students selected topics that have been debated

in the National Forensics League. In a team of two they built a case either affirming or negating

the resolution and they competed against another two-person team who prepared a case from

the opposing side.

Before the debate unit, students gave a celebrity

speech in late October, which infused research and

creativity. They performed as their celebrity in a 5

minute press conference format.

Research Writing Students in Research Writing are diligently working on finding credible sources and correctly

citing them. They can properly format a four line quote, they know when and how to paraphrase

a source, and they can navigate a database like a pro! Their most recent mission was to make a

prediction for the future based on what they researched from the past and present. After a brief

Literary Analysis Unit, students will use all the skills they learned this semester to write a ten

page Issue Paper.

Modern Literature This semester has been filled with reading and CEA response-writing related to selected

modern short stories. We have also completed Book Talks in which each student chose a

different novel to share with the class. Recently we finished a mini-research paper informing of

a modern discovery or invention. Students were able to select a topic of interest. The result

included a wide range of inventions such as: Decoding the Human Genome, Microwave Ovens,

Bubble Wrap, Optic Fiber, and the 1963 Corvette to name a few.

Media Literacy In becoming more critical consumers of various media, students have looked in depth at who

creates different media messages, as well as some of the creative techniques that are used

within these messages. Topics like media conglomerates, social media, fake news, product

placement have been explored. Currently students are analyzing the impact differences like

age, race and gender have on how an audience interprets media messages. Students have also

been working on storyboarding as part of the process of creating Public Service

Announcements.

Multicultural Literature Multicultural Lit just finished reading The Namesake, which is a Bengali book and The

Alchemist, which is written by a Brazilian author. The two books gave them insight on different

cultures and helped them understand the importance of storytelling and legends. The students

are also working on their independent novels. These were chosen by them and they have a

variety of activities that they will be able to do to complete their project.

British Literature Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is the piece of Medieval literature students are currently exploring

in British Literature. This satirical quest helps us delve into the writing of a frame story, many

types of tales, iambic pentameter, the changing structure of English culture, a look at the lives

people lived in 1390, and the influence literature from France and Italy began to have on English

writers. The next major work students will explore will be Macbeth by William Shakespeare.

Journalistic Writing/Advanced Journalistic Writing Give voice to the voiceless, minimize harm, and seek truth and report it. These are just three of

the principles from the Journalistic Code of Ethics that students are currently learning about in

Intro to Journalism. In Advanced Journalism (aka The Norse Star), students are putting this

code into action after having published two publications this year: “Humans of Stoughton,” and

“Preserving a Culture.” Each issue that this student-run newspaper publishes is a “public

forum,” meaning that when students write articles that they choose to report on, they are inviting

the community to interact with the stories that they have provided. Every day, students are

learning about the human story, technology, teamwork, and how to operate as a professional

publication. Students are encouraged to consider signing up for Intro to Journalism, as it is a

prerequisite for Advanced Journalism, which students will begin applying for in the spring.

Intro to Journalism and Advanced Journalism students gather before attending sessions at UW-

Whitewater on October 14 for the Kettle Moraine Press Association Fall Journalism Conference. The

Norse Star won second place out of 23 schools across the state for their reporting last year.

English Publications 1 (Yearbook) Students in English Publications are preparing sports and club pages for our first deadline.

They are developing Photoshop and camera skills, as well as working on interviews, captions

and write-ups. Students completed their first page efforts in late October, and have begun work

on the pages required for our November deadline.

Literary Writing A Poetry Slam culminated our poetry exploratory unit which

included writing everything from odes to spoken word poems.

Students are working to polish their pieces for their portfolio, and

then will begin a narrative writing unit in which they explore seven

types of narratives. Students will ultimately write their own narrative

piece.

Advanced English (UW-Whitewater College Credit

English, EN 101) The essential question guiding our learning this semester is how

does conflict create change? Recently we read the play A Streetcar

Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and analyzed conflicts

existing in the drama from either a formalist, feminist, or

psychoanalytic perspective. Currently we are looking at speculative

conflict, delving into the genre of dystopian literature. Students will

investigate the topic through multiple genres: film, short stories,

poetry, music, and the anchor text, Brave New World. The unit will

culminate in a synthesis paper infusing the multiple

perspectives/genres as they relate to dystopian characteristics.

ACT Prep Sessions Mrs. Lynch and Ms. Streyle will be leading the second annual free ACT prep class to any

interested juniors. So far, sixty students have signed up to take advantage of this opportunity.

For three weeks in January and February, students will take their lunch to the Learning

Academy and sharpen their test-taking skills in the subjects of English, reading and writing. The

class will provide a test overview, ACT specific test taking tips and tricks, a grammar review,

guided practice with sample questions, and timed practice tests.

UW Whitewater

Writing Festival On Nov 15th, a group

of students went to

the annual Creative

Writing Festival at

UW-Whitewater.

This festival offers a

variety of workshops

in which students

may attend ranging

from short stories,

poetry, multimedia

projects, flash fiction,

and science fiction, to name a few. Each workshop is led by a representative from Whitewater

to mentor with discussion and critique of student writing. Students are hearing work from their

peers across the state. It is a vibrant learning atmosphere for young writers.

Trip to England/France For the first time, Stoughton High School students along with

EF Tours will be travelling to England and France this summer.

We will be touring the Best of England and Paris for 10 days.

Sights in London will include: London Bridge, Houses of

Parliament, the Baroque domes, St. Paul’s Cathedral,

Piccadilly Circus, Hyde Park, Big Ben! We will travel to

Somerset to visit Salisbury Cathedral and Stonehenge. Then

on to Bath; Georgian squares; Roman baths. Once in

Stratford we will visit Shakespeare’s birthplace, the Royal

Shakespeare Theatre, and Anne Hathaway’s Cottage. Then

on to Oxford, Brasenose College, and the Tower of London.

We will also ride the London Eye. The next two days will be

spent in Paris, traveling there on the Eurostar train. There the

sights will include the Place de la Concorde, Champs-Elysées,

Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and Notre Dame

Cathedral. A special thanks to Mr. Kruse and the School

Board for approving this trip and to Mrs. Monthie for planning it providing students with this

awesome opportunity.

Reimagine A Local Landmark

The historic 1892 Building has been a part of our school district and community for more than a century. Next week, come hear a preservation architect and a team of international UW civil engineering students discuss the possibilities and potential for this local landmark.

What: Stoughton Area School District Facilities Committee meeting

When: 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5Where: Administration Building

320 North St., StoughtonAll are welcome to attend!