October 7

Board Meeting - 6:30 p.m.

  

October 14-18

Schools Closed

Fall Break

  

November 4

Board Meeting - 6:30 p.m.

  

November 27-29

Schools Closed

Thanksgiving Break

 It's Your School Blog

  

The Sullivan Central Welding Program is a partnership with Northeast State Community College.  The objective of the program is for students to graduate from Sullivan Central High School with a high school diploma and receive a nationally recognized welding certification.  These seven individuals will have completed a total of 14 dual enrollment college credits by the end of this semester.  These seven students are taking 49 collective college credit hours this semester completey free thanks to the Niswonger Foudnation, Bradley Machine and Welding Company, Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship, Alliance for Business and Training and an anonymous donor.

  

 

Pictured Left to Right:  Chad Brooks, Grayson Hopkins, Zach Walton, Brandon Locklear, Paul Light, Aaron Carey, and Josh Patrick

  

  

   

One of the new common core standards for Language Arts involves "Speaking and Listening" in which students engage in meaningful and creative dialogue about the text they are reading. One of Mr. Humphrey's 7^th grade Reading classes did this during class on Friday, September 6^th. After reading "A Retrieved Reformation" by O'Henry to look at how point-of-view affects how a story is told, the students prepared a mock trial to take their own point-of-view on whether or not the main character, Jimmy Valentine, should have returned to prison after committing more safe cracking crimes upon his release. He was pardoned by detective Ben Price because he cracked a safe to save the life of his future niece Agatha Adams. Students assumed the roles witnesses, judge, court reporter and prosecuting and defense attorney to show through use of evidence from the text whether or not Jimmy should have been forgiven for his crimes or been sent back to jail. After completing the mock trial, a jury of remaining classmates agreed that he indeed deserved a second chance at freedom.

The following class period, students were treated to a movie version of the story entitled MY DEAR RALPH which was directed and produced by a local amateur film maker named Benjamin Dawson. Benjamin visited Mr. Humphrey's classes to engage in a meaningful discussion about the film and how it helped tell the stories in ways that the written story could not. This allowed the students to understand another important common core standard, RL.7.7 - how the media version of a story uses unique elements like sound, lighting and camera angles to tell a version of a story.

By Steve Humphrey, 7^th Grade Teacher, Holston Middle School

  

  
 

  

Central Heights fourth and fifth grade students (with help from their first grade friends) are hard at work with their imaginations and cardboard! They are participating in the Second Annual Imagination Foundation's Global Cardboard Challenge, which will be held October 5th at the Kingsport Farmer's Market.  The Cardboard Challenge is an annual challenge that invites kids around the world to design and build awesome creations using cardboard, recycled materials and imagination.  Central Heights is excited to be participating in this event!