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In May 2010, the CRLS Modern Dance Company had the fantastic opportunity to work with Erika Pujic, rehearsal director for Robert Battle's "Battleworks Dance Company. Ms. Pujic came in from New York City to teach our dancers the "Battle Etude", which is part of the American Dance Legacy Institute's Repertory Etudes. Having this opportunity at this moment is exhilarating as Robert Battle was just named as the new Artistic Director for the famed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Learning his work from his longtime collaborator was an amazing chance to be close to this momentous shift in the dance world! For more information, see the New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/arts/dance/29plan.html |
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Bullying / Cyberbullying Prevention in Schools
and the Community
It is impossible to discuss the topic of bullying without including cyber bullying. These unacceptable behaviors are often community based but the effects spill into the schools, causing hurt feelings, exclusion, and rumors.
Please join us for a conversation about improving safety in our schools and community. Presented by Margie Daniels,
Executive Director of Middlesex Partners for Youth Inc.
When:
Thursday, May 27, 2010
6-8 PM
Where:
CRLS Freshman Campus
359 Broadway, Cambridge
Sponsored by Cambridge Rindge and Latin school. For more information or to register for the event please contact Greta Hardina ghardina@cpsd.us or call 617-349-6660.
Open to all parents, teachers, and community staff. Topics may be too sensitive for young children.
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CRLS Summer Reading List
Grade 9
Required Reading
The Contender, Robert Lipsyte
Alfred's life is going nowhere fast. He's a high-school dropout working at a grocery store. His best friend is drifting behind a haze of drugs and violence, and now some street punks are harassing him for something he didn't do. Feeling powerless and afraid, Alfred gathers up the courage to visit Donatelli's Gym, the neighborhood's boxing club. He wants to be a champion--on the streets and in his own life. Slowly he learns that a winner isn't necessarily the one standing when the fight is over.
CP and Honors classes choose ONE and AP classes choose TWO additional books from the following lists:
Beach Reads
Small Steps, Louis Sachar
Jazmin's Notebook, Nikki Grimes
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
Twilight series, Stephanie Meyer (choose one)
The Killer's Cousin, Nancy Werlin
Classics
The Pearl, John Steinbeck
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Historical Fiction
Under the Blood-Red Sun, Graham Salisbury
Catherine Called Birdy, Karen Cushman
Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers
Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson
Chain of Fire, Beverley Naidoo and Eric Velasquez
Contemporary Fiction
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Forged by Fire series, Sharon Draper (choose one)
Kendra, Coe Brown
If You Come Softly, Jacqueline Woodson
Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Feed, M.T. Anderson
Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling (choose one)
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Interstellar Pig, William Sleator
Non-fiction
We Beat the Streets, Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Sharon Draper
Farewell to Manzanar, James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
When I was Puerto Rican, Esmeralda Santiago
The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
Letters to a Bullied Girl, Olivia Gardner, Emily Buder, and Sarah Buder |
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CRLS Summer Reading List
Grade 10
Required Reading
After the First Death, Robert Cormier
Terrorists have hijacked a bus full of children. They have made their demands. What will happen next? This riveting and action-packed story is told from the perspective of four people: one of the hijackers, one of the hostages on the bus, an Army general trying to save them, and the general's son who gets involved in it all. The suspense will keep you racing until the end.
CP and Honors classes choose ONE and AP classes choose TWO additional books from the following lists:
Beach Reads
Pretties, Uglies, Specials series, Scott Westerfeld (choose one)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
Senioritis, Tate Thompson
Classics
Nectar in a Sieve, Kamala Markandaya
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Historical Fiction
The Glory Field, Walter Dean Myers
The Samurai's Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Contemporary Fiction
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
Every Time a Rainbow Dies, Rita Williams-Garcia
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Monster, Walter Dean Myers
Sci-Fi / Fantasy
His Dark Materials series, Phillip Pullman (choose one)
How I Live Now, Meg Rossof
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Lord of the Rings series, J.R.R. Tolkien (choose one)
Non-fiction
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Mark Kurlansky (This is the 2010 Cambridge Reads book!)
The Color of Water, James McBride
Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder
Dreams from my Father, Barack Obama
Roots, Alex Haley |
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CRLS Summer Reading List
Grade 11
Required Reading
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X and Alex Haley
This is the personal story of the man who rose from hoodlum, thief, dope peddler, and pimp to become a leader of the Black Revolution of the 1960s. Malcolm is born in Michigan but moves to Boston after his father is murdered and his mother is institutionalized. Victimized, he turns to a life of crime, but through education and religion, he transforms his life to become a leading advocate for black unity in America.
CP and Honors classes choose ONE and AP classes choose TWO additional books from the following lists:
Beach Reads
Maximum Ride series, James Patterson (choose one)
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
A Time To Kill, John Grisham
The Gospel According to Larry, Janet Tashjian
That Summer, Sarah Dessen
Classics
Light in August, William Faulkner
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Native Son, Richard Wright
Historical Fiction
Jesse, Gary Soto
Copper Sun, Sharon Draper
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Contemporary Fiction
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
The Host, Stephanie Meyer
Rucker Park Setup, Paul Volponi
Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Kindred, Octavia Butler
Moonfall, Jack McDevitt
Blood and Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause
The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton
Non-fiction
Our America, LeAlan and Lloyd Newman
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
A Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou |
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CRLS Summer Reading List
Grade 12
Required Reading
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
In 1975, Amir and Hassan run the streets
of Kabul, Afghanistan. This is before the revolution, before the Taliban, before
terrorists. However, their relationship is
complex, as Hassan and his father are the servants of Amir and his father. When Amir has to make a choice to stand up for his best friend or stay silent, he doesn't know that the repercussions of that choice will haunt him for years. Life is only complicated further when Afghanistan is invaded by Russia, setting in motion political events that affected all of us in 2001.
CP and Honors classes choose ONE and AP classes choose TWO additional books from the following lists:
Beach Reads
Love Sick, Jake Coburn
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Chris Crutcher
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan
The Dying Ground, Nichelle D. Tramble
Classics
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Fail Safe, Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler
Historical Fiction
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines
The Good Negress, A.J. Verdelle
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
Caucasia, Danzy Senna
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
Contemporary Fiction
The Pact, Jodi Picoult
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Double Helix, Nancy Werlin
Sci-Fi / Fantasy
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
V for Vendetta, Alan Moore and David Lloyd
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Non-fiction
The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich |
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Calendar of Events: 05/21/10 Semester 2, Marking Period 2 Progress Reports Mailed
05/25/10 School Council Meeting, 6-8 PM, Principal's Conference Room
05/25/10 Final Exams for Seniors
05/26/10 Final Exams for Seniors
05/27/10 CyberBullying Workshop, Freshman Campus, 6-8 PM
05/29/10 Senior Prom, Seaport Hotel, Boston, 7PM to Midnight 05/31/10 Memorial Day Holiday - No School
JUNE 2010
06/01/10 Senior Athletes Awards Ceremony, 7 PM, Kennedy / Longfellow School
06/02/10 MCAS Exams, Science
06/03/10 MCAS Exams, Science
06/03/10 CRLS Commencement, Field House, 6 PM
06/05/10 SAT and SAT Subject Exams, 9th Grade Campus, 7:45 AM
06/07/10 Senior Chamber Music Concert, 7 PM, Swedenborg Chapel, 50 Quincy Street
06/15/10 School Council Meeting, 6-8 PM, Principal's Conference Room
06/08/10 FOCA Meeting, 6 PM, Athletics Dept Conference Room
06/09/10 FoCRLS Meeting, 7:30-9 PM, CRLS Freshman Campus Library
06/17/10 Semester 2 Final Exams, Early Release
06/18/10 Semester 2 Final Exams, Early Release
06/22/10 Semester 2, Marking Period 2 Report Cards mailed
06/23/10 Last Day of School (with one snow day), Early Release
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Calling all Musicians!
Sample our Music Courses at CRLS
http://www.cpsd.us/crls/academics/VPA/music.html#music_video |
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CRLS goes to London!
The English Department and Visual and Performing Arts Department are proud to announce their co-sponsored EF Educational Tour to London from April 16-24, 2011! On "Curtain Time in London" students will experience the culture, literature, and theatre of London and surrounding cities. Informational meetings were held before April break, but there is very limited space still available for interested students to sign up. Please email Ariel Maloney (amaloney@cpsd.us) for information about the trip itinerary or enrollment.
Also, parents and communities members interested in contributing financial support to assist our students in affording the trip can make tax-deductible donations to an account through Friends of CRLS, or through assisting our fundraising. Please email Monica Murray (mmurray@cpsd.us) for information about donations and fundraising opportunities and check out our website:
http://sites.google.com/site/crlsinlondon2011/ |
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Looking for host families!
Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program (IYLEP) is doing a student
exchange in Boston this summer. The program brings some of the
brightest students from Iraq to the US for the purpose of cultural
immersion and civic engagement. We are currently looking for host
families in the Boston area, preferably with students in the home age
15-17. The program takes place from July 21-Aug 2. Students would be
engaged in local activities everyday (with the exception of Sundays),
and would require housing at night, breakfast and dinner. Young
people in the host families are invited to apply to participate in the
program at no cost, including the first week of the program, an
introductory camp in Brattleboro, VT the week of July 14th.
To learn more or request an application, please contact GYLI Director
Matt Nink at mnink@gyli.org |
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Sincerely,
greta hardina
CRLS
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