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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2009 ANNOUNCEMENTS

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GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Help plant a tree at BHS!
UTK Pro2Serve Math Contest
National Shakespeare Contest
Lost TI Calculator
Bruinettes Dance Team Annual Dance Clinic
Reminder: Art Show this Friday and Saturday
View Contemporary ISMS of Art -----ORIGINAL WORKS of ART by AP Lit. students.
Schedule--Week of November 8-14

PARENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Veterans Day Assembly--An Invitation to Veterans
Senior parent proofing for yearbook parental salutes (last names H-P)
WCS Rezoning Plans

POGS ANNOUNCEMENTS

CLASS ANNOUNCEMENTS

ALL CLASSES
National Shakespeare Contest
We want YOU in the 2010 yearbook!
Newsletter re Teen Health and Fitness

SENIORS
Senior Graduation Fees
All Seniors--Read This!

JUNIORS

SOPHOMORES

FRESHMEN
Freshmen Only Assembly

TESTING ANNOUNCEMENTS

COLLEGE AND SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS
Recently Added Scholarships | All Scholarships | Schedule of Colleges Visiting BHS

Governor's School
UT Knoxville is coming to visit you!

SPORTS/ATHLETICS ANNOUNCEMENTS

To read "Brentwood Homepage.com" articles on BHS Sports
Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Boys Rugby

CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS
(Club Calendar)

Paintballers
Attention Model UN participants!
Read If You'd Like Your Club's Pictures in the Yearbook
Culinary Arts meeting Tuesday, the 10^th in Mrs. Mount’s room.

NEWSPAPER and YEARBOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS

We want YOU in the 2010 yearbook!
Senior parent proofing for yearbook parental salutes (last names H-P)

HONORS, RECOGNITIONS, SCHOOL PERFORMANCES

Brentwood High School Presents THE CURIOUS SAVAGE by John Patrick
Auditions for the Christmas play Santa’s Spectacles

Chat with staff members of Undergraduate Admissions this fall during one of the online chat sessions below:

Monday, November 16, 2009 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm EST
Members of the Admissions team

To be able to chat, click here to create your VIP page. Once you have activated your VIP page, you will use your log in for chat. On the scheduled day and time of the chat that interests you, just go to http://admissions.utk.edu/undergraduate/ , click on the link at the right hand side of the page and select your chat. Since you are a VIP now, you do not have to register for any chat, just click and log in.

The Brentwood High School Green Team (outdoors and environmental club) needs your support for our 2009-2010 tree-planting initiative. We will be planting a number of new trees at BHS this fall, including a new oak to replace the lovely old one lost during the recent building expansion.

We also hope to establish a “grow-out” nursery to cultivate trees to plant at BHS and around the Brentwood community in years to come. Adopt a tree to be planted this fall or a sapling for our nursery!

Donate $5.00 or more and include your name and e-mail address, and we will send you e-mail updates on your tree’s progress and ultimate planting location. $50 purchases a mature tree ready for planting; $5 finances a sapling for the nursery; donations in any amount accepted.

Drop off donations in the BHS office c/o Ms. Sherman; in Ms. Sherman’s room (A-12); or with a Green Team student member.

Questions? Contact faculty sponsor Emily Sherman at emilys@wcs.edu or (615) 472-4221 x3673.

The Tennessee Governor’s School is inviting the brightest and most talented tenth and eleventh graders currently enrolled in Tennessee’s public and private high schools to submit an application to attend one of the 2010 Governor’s Schools of their choice.

The Governor’s Schools offer selected gifted and talented high school students intensive learning experiences in the Humanities, Math and Science, Arts, International Studies, Scientific Exploration of Tennessee Heritage, Prospective Teaching, Emerging Technologies, Engineering, Information Technology Leadership, and Agricultural Sciences, Computational Physics and Scientific Models and Data Analysis.

All students in the tenth and eleventh grades who would like to participate in a challenging and high-intensity summer program in one of the twelve areas should obtain application(s) online at http://www.tn.gov/education/govschools.

Applications must be completed and returned to your counselor by the following dates:

Please come by the drama room and see Ms. Christian to sign up and get your audition information.

Parents, please feel free to invite any veterans you know to attend our Veteran's Day Assembly on Wednesday, November 11. There will be two identical assemblies, one at about 1:00 and the other at about 1:45.

Mr. . Keidel has given his permission for Brentwood High School to participate in the English-Speaking Union’s 2010 National Shakespeare Contest. Students in the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grades study, memorize, and perform a “monologue” from a Shakespeare play. The winner of our school competition advances to the Regional Competition, held on Saturday March 6, 2010.

On April 24-27, 2010, the Regional winner receives, all expenses paid, a weekend of theater, workshops, and sightseeing in New York City for the National Competition, held on the stage at Lincoln Center. The National Competition winner receives a summer acting course at the British American Drama Academy (BADA) in Oxford, Awards of $1,000 and $500 go to the first and second place contestants.

Encourage students in this competition--think about the challenge and opportunity this contest offers. If you know of any student in the 9th through the 12th grade at BHS who would enjoy this learning experience, please talk to him or her about entering the competition.
Students can receive as much help (coaching) as they want.

All the information can be found at www.esuus.org Click on National Shakespeare Competition on the home page.

Email Mrs. Huddleston at leeh@wcs.edu for more information. She will coordinate the competition: asking for three judges to judge the contestants, placing bulletins around the school and in the BHS Announcements, and Bruins Doins.

Mrs. Huddleston will continue to keep you up-dated as to the date for our school competition--to be scheduled in January or early February of 2010. She will also be available to coach any student who might be interested in entering the contest.

Do you have some great pictures that you’d like to share? Go to: www.hjeshare.com and enter school code 7010200.

Follow the instructions, and the yearbook staff will do the best they can to get your pictures in the book. Pictures must be school appropriate. The more information you provide when you upload the picture, the better! Thank you.

There is a meeting on November 10^th at 6:00 pm in the library! This is a mandatory meeting- all must attend. See Mrs. Wade with concerns.

A student lost her TI calculator the day she took the SAT/ACT test at BHS. If you found a TI calculator that doesn't have the cover on it, and it is labeled either Madeline Thomas or Maddie Thomas, please contact Dee Burgess at deeb@wcs.edu, or bring it to the Front Office. Thanks!

If you have not paid your senior fees, please drop off your check to the bookkeeper, Dee Burgess, in the Front Office.

You should go to the Herff-Jones table later this week so that you can be sized for your cap/gown set. Even if you don’t plan to order any graduation products, you MUST be sized for your cap/gown set!

Senior parent proofing for yearbook parental salutes (last names H-P) will be November 4 through November 9 via email, or November 6 in person during 5^th or 6^th period in the BHS front lobby. Please email Ashley Powell, yearbook adviser, if you would like to see your son or daughter’s ad. (ashleyp1@wcs.edu)

All edit requests must be received by the end of the school day Tuesday, November 10 in order to meet publication deadlines.

There are two popular HOPE Lottery Scholarship programs available to eligible Williamson County students (1) The Tennessee Hope Scholarship and (2) the General Assembly Merit Scholarship..

To become eligible for both the Tennessee Hope Scholarship and General Assembly Merit Scholarship (GAMS), a student’s GPA will be configured using the Tennessee Uniform Grading Policy (TN UGPA), as mandated by the Tennessee Board of Education. The TN UGPA will be different than the WCS GPA and will frequently be lower than the WCS GPA. The TN UGPA does not appear on the WCS transcript. Students using the TN UGPA to qualify for the TN Lottery scholarship should contact their school counselor.

Energetic, enthusiastic, and culturally relevant dance that is tasteful and age-appropriate will be taught to K-8 students of all ages and experience levels! Performance for parents at 4 pm in the gym. Performance will be televised! Come join us for the fun!

The Curious Savage, written by John Patrick, is a comedic play about Ethel P. Savage, a woman whose husband recently died and left her approximately ten million dollars. To make the best use of it, she hides the money from her stepchildren who place her in a sanitarium hoping to “bring her to her senses” and find the money. In the sanitarium she meets various social misfits who conspire to get rid of her stepchildren and enable Mrs. Savage to carry out her plan for her money.

*Note: There will no longer be a Friday performance since the BHS Football Team will be in the playoffs.

For the 2010 yearbook, the yearbook staff is again including a clubs index to give every student involved in a club or organization an opportunity to be recognized in the yearbook.

This year, we are offering you the opportunity to take the picture yourself, at your convenience, and upload it to the website below. This will allow you take the picture when the most members possible are present. In addition, BHS has begun SEVERAL new clubs this year, and we do not want to miss anyone.

If you have any questions about how to use the website, please email Mrs. Powell, the yearbook adviser, at ashleyp1@wcs.edu OR come by A-19 before or after school or during break. We are asking that photos be taken and uploaded by January 15 so we can meet our publication deadlines.

PLEASE enter the names of club members from left to right and front row to back row. We will check the spelling, but please try to be as accurate as possible. THANK YOU!

***If your club prefers to have a yearbook staff member come and take the picture for you, please email Mrs. Powell (ashleyp1@wcs.edu) or come by A-19 on or before December 1 so we can make adequate arrangements. Thank you!

This is the weekend for the Martin Masters show at the Martin Center next to the Brentwood Rec Center. It is an impressive display of work by Brentwood and Williamson County artists. There is a lot of great work at great prices for all of you art collectors! The exhibit is open Friday and Saturday 10 to 4 .

The Martin Center is a private non-profit serving Williamson County Residents who are past the age of 50. The show is open to the public for FREE on Friday and Saturday, November 6 and 7. Barbara Bullard, one of our BHS art teachers, will be one of more than 30 artists displaying their work, with Gail McDaniel as the guest artist.

Many of you remember Zoe Wells, an active BHS parent and former substitute teacher here. She was a Martin Member and Martin Master artist. Zoe lost her battle with cancer a few months ago, and the show has been named in her honor.

This is a great opportunity to buy quality original art from local artists and support an outstanding Williamson county organization. Hope to see you there. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Mrs. Bullard at barbarab@wcs.edu .

New research by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers looks at the specific ways parents and peers influence teenagers to smoke, drink and use marijuana in combination. Among their findings: attitudes toward smoking influenced teenagers' use of multiple drugs (smoking, drinking and marijuana), and that this manifested itself differently in boys and girls.

Come celebrate the talent in Mrs. Huddleston’s Advanced Placement English Literature Classes.

The Williamson County Board of Education discussed several zoning and rezoning plans during its work session last night. The establishment of zone lines for three schools that will open next year were discussed along with rezoning for two other schools. The schools that will open next year include a west Franklin elementary school, an elementary school in the southern part of the county and a middle school in the southern part of the county. The School Board will vote to establish those zone lines at its regular meeting Monday, November 16 beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Administrative Complex.

Regarding rezoning, two plans were shared last night. One involves a rezoning of some students at Bethesda Elementary. The other involves rezoning students at Ravenwood High to alleviate overcrowding. The School Board will vote on the rezoning plans at a special called meeting on Monday, November 30 at 6 p.m. in the Carolyn Campbell Room of the Administrative Complex.

Please visit the district’s website at http://www.wcs.edu/busroute/index.htm and select New Schools Zoning Plan to view the maps and see the subdivision lists involved in each of the plans.

In addition, information sharing, come-and-go meetings will be held for each of the areas. Staff members and School Board members will be available to show maps and answer questions. All meetings will be from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. on the following days:

Meet at Tower Park this Sunday, November 8
from 3:30 – 5:00 to play touch rugby (modified form of rugby – No tackling).

Agricultural Sciences	November 10, 2009
Computational Physics	November 10, 2009
Emerging Technologies	November 10, 2009
Engineering	November 10, 2009
Humanities	November 10, 2009
Information Technology Leadership	November 10, 2009
International Studies	November 10, 2009
International Studies	November 10, 2009
Prospective Teachers	November 10, 2009
Sciences	November 10, 2009
Scientific Exploration of Tennessee Heritage	November 10, 2009
Scientific Models and Data Analysis	November 10, 2009