Fall Conferences: Fall conferences will be held 4:30-8:00 pm on Thursday, November 11 and Tuesday, November 16. These are drop-in conferences with no appointment necessary. If you attended conferences last week at Oregon High School, we are using the same conference format. Families will be able to pick up copies of the report card and then visit with teachers of their choosing for five-minute conferences. If you feel you need more than 5 minutes, please reach out to us to schedule a separate time.
Clubs at OMS:
Yearbook club - contact Ms. Touhey for information.
GSA (Gender Sexuality Alliance) meets every Tuesday in Mrs. Ripp’s classroom during lunch. Her email is psripp@oregonsd.net
Homework club runs every Tuesday and Thursday 4 PM to 5 PM - no sign up needed.
Art club (open studio format) will meet after school in room 205 Mondays 4 PM to 5 PM - no sign up needed. See Ms. Touhey for information.
Deutschklub (German Club) starts Tuesday, October 5 from 4 PM - 5 PM (first Tuesday of the month). See Frau Wochenske for information.
Upcoming dates:
Quick links to help:
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Counselors’ Corner (Severson) | 
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English
(Ripp) | We kicked our inquiry into inquiry unit this week. This unit will run most of November and then we will transition into our dystopian book clubs. Scholars should have selected their inquiry question by now and found preliminary sources to learn from.
Deadlines: Read 2 hours+ every week 2nd reading goal due November 26th Module 1 was due Tuesday, Nov. 2nd Module 2 due Friday, Nov. 5th
Questions to ask: What is your inquiry question? Whose voices do you want to learn from? How can you avoid plagiarism? How nervous are you about doing a speech?
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English
(Gunst) | We started a new unit this week - Research Inquiry. The goal of this unit is to have to learn researching skills as they choose a topic of their choice, research it, examine sources for bias, and finally present their findings to the entire class.
Please continue independent reading outside of class for 20 minutes a night. |
Geography (Stoller) | We started a new inquiry unit this week where we focused on Mail In Voting. Students wrote claims and supported them with evidence. Next week, we will begin our unit on the Middle East.
Middle East Maps due Wednesday 11/10
Questions *What is Mail In Voting? How is it different from Absentee Voting? * What was your claim about mail in voting and what evidence did you use to support that claim? * What are 3 countries in the Middle East? * What continent includes the Middle East? |
Geography (Howe) | |
Math 7 & 8
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Math Algebra (Malloy) |
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Science
(Grady) | Questions to ask: |
Science
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Literacy Lab (Tanner) | |
Health (Balbach) |
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P.E. (Faulkner/ Fleming/Lund) |
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Spanish (Cognac) | |
Spanish (Landsverk) | |
German (Wochenske) | We are working on a new unit of vocabulary while recycling last quarter’s vocabulary. There will be a vocabulary quiz Nov 11/12. |
Bilingual (Lofgren) |
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Orchestra (Black) | |
Band (Seiter, Dorn, Cornale) | Concert Eb Scale Summative Playing Assessment due Nov 23. Small Group Learning (SGL) Schedule. Interested in Private Lessons? Here’s a list of teachers. Learners can take their instruments and music home to practice anytime, but we ask that all instruments go home for the weekend and come back on Monday’s. Learners can practice band music, rhythms, book materials, and any new techniques they learn in small groups. Google Classroom has all music and recordings available. Performance Schedule for the year can be found here.
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STEAM (Fischer) |
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STEAM (Stansfield) |
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Choir (Rattmann) | Q2 small group schedule is HERE. Upcoming concert on Dec. 2 at 7PM. More details to come soon. Please fill out the uniform form if you haven’t yet. |
Art (Touhey) | We are currently working on a lino printmaking unit in class.
Questions to ask:
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