CRLS Calendar of Events

6/20/11 Semester 2 Final Exams-Early Release

6/21/11 Semester 2 Final Exams-Early Release

6/22/11 Make-up Exams (attendance required)

6/23/11 Last Day of School, Early Release, Community Service Hours for helping teachers pack. (attendance optional)

6/30/11 - Report cards mailed (grades 9-11)

SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS ARE NOT JUST FOR ENGLISH CLASSES ANYMORE!

Are you taking a math class when we come back next fall?  If your answer is "YES!" then you have a summer assignment called a pre-course packet.  Pre-course packets feature skills and material that you need to know before you begin your math class.  Finishing the packet is a requirement and teachers will use the packets to make quizzes or tests or they might count the packet as homework.  Packets are being given out by your current math teacher.  If you do not currently have a math class, you can get them from the Learning Community S Office.  The packets are also available on the Cambridge Public Schools web site found at http://www3.cpsd.us/Academics/Math/Math_Summer   Questions? - please talk with your math teacher or see Mr. Gaglione.  Have a great summer! 

Photography Department News:

Two CRLS Photography students won national awards in New York City from the Scholastic Art Awards this spring.  Nic Guevara won a silver key for his portfolio of homeless people in Harvard Square and Sara Rosenburg won a silver key for a single photograph.  The Boston Globe honored all of the Massachusetts national awardees with a beautiful reception attended by both Sara and Nic, and their families.  They both travelled to New York City for the Awards ceremony at Lincoln Center in May.  The Scholastic Art Awards are yearly awards and this year CRLS received 50 state awards and 2 national ones.  There is a very competitive jurying process with very few young artists rising to the top. Our students are in good company with past winners, Richard Avedon and Andy Warhol!  We wish many more honors and awards for them.  Photo Teachers Debi Milligan and Archy LaSalle

CRLS Biotechnology Program News: New Biotechnology Course - Spring 2012

Biotechnology Elective: The Science of Food TE640

Through a combination of lectures, labs, and guest speakers, students will learn science in the context of food. The innovative, hands-on lab component of the class includes design challenges and experiments in phases of matter, foams and emulsions, gelation and spherification, heat transfer and diffusion, self assembly and protein folding, viscosity and elasticity, and enzymatic reaction - all in the context of creative food preparation. We will learn science, prepare food, and have fun.

Also, there is still room in the Biotechnology 1 - Introduction to Molecular Biology course.

For more information contact Dr. Joan Abrams at jabrams@cpsd.us  To register talk to your guidance counselor. 

CRLS Students Paint a Mural at Cambridge Hopstital:

Ms. Menges' 9th Grade Portrait class at CRLS spent 7 weeks planning, designing, and painting an underwater-themed mural at the emergency pediatric ward of the Cambridge Hospital this past semester. It all started a year ago when a former student asked if her aunt, a registration nurse at the hospital, could talk with her about making the pediatric ward a more welcoming environment for the young patients. Since then both her fall 2010 and spring 2011 classes have spent every day of class time, for over two months, on creating their own unique mural, from beginning to end. They have learned to be cooperative, efficient, flexible, and professional in a real-world project that helps them grow as responsible, community-minded artists.

Here is a link to a public album documenting last semester's process:  

WHAT IS RISE UP?

The Cambridge READS title this year is 'War" by Sebastian Junger and will be a tenth grade option on the CRLS Summer Reading List.

Cambridge READS is the citywide reading program sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library. Multiple copies of the book will be available in each library so that citizens can have the opportunity to read the same book over the course of the next year. The author will make a free public appearance one evening in the fall (usually in October) and CRLS students have the opportunity to have a presentation by the author during that day. We usually make this book an option for our 10th graders, as we have done this year, so that we can have 10th graders attend the author's presentation.

About the book and the author (from Amazon.com):

Sebastian Junger is the internationally acclaimed author of The Perfect Storm, which spent over three years on the New York Times bestsellers list and was the basis for a major motion picture starring George Clooney. He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers 'Fire' and 'A Death in Belmont'. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism.

In WAR, Sebastian Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat--the fear, the honor, and the trust among men in an extreme situation whose survival depends on their absolute commitment to one another. His on-the-ground account follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. Through the experiences of these young men at war, he shows what it means to fight, to serve, and to face down mortal danger on a daily basis.

AUDITIONS / CASTING CALL FOR TEENS

KidsCOOK Productions, a Cambridge, MA-based multimedia Company founded by former Executive Producer of Sesame Street International, is filming an innovative interactive web platform and TV-style web series, KickinKitchen.TV, aimed at inspiring and empowering teens and tweens to eat healthy and live healthy lifestyles.  Here is our sizzle reel for KickinKitchen.TV: http://vimeo.com/19064320.

Filming Dates: JULY 6-13 (1-2 days; TBD Days when your scene is filming) in Cambridge & Boston

Interested parties send Name, Email, Phone, Weight, Height, Age and Experience/CV and PHOTOGRAPHS to Tara@Kickinkitchen.TV

MAJOR ROLES: (1-2 days)

JAROD - Male; age 14-17; WHITE  ($100)

Confident, cocky, obnoxious male, oozing contempt for his peers and is a natural salesman, which he gets from his dad who runs a fast food/junk food empire. Jarod thinks that all the ladies in the school love him. He's got loads of presence, a bit annoying, but stands his ground. His dad is a kind of Tony Soprano character, but he runs a fast food restaurant chain and his son is a chip off the ol' block with the intention of running the empire in the future.

DAD OF JAROD: Male; age 45-50; WHITE - Must be able to Sing ($100)

Jarod's dad is the owner of America's largest fast food empire. He's a self-made man - a theatrical version of Tony Soprano - if the Mob had a fast food business. His son, Jarod, is his pride and joy, but he never lets on - only showing him affection when he's accomplished something great.

HOST OF COOKING SHOW /ANNOUNCER - Male; age 30-50; Multi-ethnic or White. Must have good clear speaking voice. (unpaid)

LUNCH LADY - Woman; age 40-60; Multi-ethnic or white - Must be able to SING and DANCE  (unpaid)

MINOR ROLES WITH DIALOGUE and WITHOUT DIALOGUE:   (all positions are unpaid)

- TEEN BOYS:  Multi-Ethnic; age 14-17; Urban-Got Style- Hip, Jock, Nerd, - All types

- TEEN GIRLS: Multi-Ethnic; age 13-17; Urban- Stylish- Hip, Jock, Nerd -All types

- HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING COACH:  Male; age 30-40; Multi-ethnic or white

- HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING:  Male; age 13-17; Multi-ethnic or white

- HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER: Male or Female; age 30-40; Multi-ethnic or white

- MOTHER & CHILD - SHOPPERS; age 25-35

- FATHER & CHILD -SHOPPERS; age 25-35; working class /hard hat

- PROFESSIONAL CHEFS/JUDGES for Cooking Contest; age 25-55; Multi-ethnic; All types; Male/Female

CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS (CSV)

INVITES YOU TO ITS

KICK-OFF ORIENTATION EVENT FOR NEW VOLUNTEERS!

WHEN: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, FROM 5:30 TO 7:30 PM.

A LIGHT SUPPER WILL BE PROVIDED.

WHERE:  CAMBRIDGE RINDGE AND LATIN SCHOOL (CRLS) LIBRARY, 2^nd FLOOR

WHO:  ALL POTENTIAL NEW VOLUNTEERS IN GRADES K THRU 12

Please join us for our first orientation event for new volunteers who would like to work at the elementary or high school level.  You will have an opportunity to:

         Meet staff and experienced volunteers from the various CSV programs

         Learn more about volunteer opportunities, programs, and scheduling

         Find out about the nuts and bolts of getting started

         Learn tutoring tips and strategies

         Learn more about the Cambridge Public School system and the Cambridge  

            community

         Share your ideas and goals for volunteering

         Ask questions

If you are unable to attend the kick-off event, please let us know, as there will be many additional orientation sessions scheduled and posted on our website in the next few days: (www.csvinc.org/news.html). Please bring a government-issued picture I.D. (passport, drivers license) for a criminal offender record check.

Please visit our website (www.csvinc.org) to learn more about our many volunteer opportunities.

FYI...

Fall Sports start August 22, 2011 for Football. All other sports start on Thursday, August 25^th, 2011. Please check the CRLS Athletic website for dates and times for each sport.

http://www.cpsd.us/crls/athletics/index.html