K¹² Week Summer Reading Challenge Week 3
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Located at 187 Euclid Avenue in Brooklyn, NYC, the Blessed Sacrament School is a Catholic parish school with programs for students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The school offers Internet access in all classrooms and smartboards, a new technology that makes classroom teaching more dynamic.
Other special programs include:
Blessed Sacrament is grounded in the Catholic tradition and strives to instill Catholic values while giving a foundation of faith to students with a strong academic curriculum.
The curriculum for students K-8 includes religion classes, English Language Arts, mathematics, science, social studies, foreign language, technology, music, and physical education. In addition to supervised homework time, the after school program is characterized by special instruction and student work in arts and crafts, music, and use of the schools gymnasium. Kindergarteners and pre-kindergarteners use the time to practice their homework.
Blessed Sacrament School offers its student handbooks in both English and Spanish. Students are expected to dress according to school uniform requirements.
LA Times columnist Hector Tobar gives some nice press today to a group of young-ish folks who grew up in Wilmington and are trying to make the port community a better place.
The feel-good column is about twentysomethings giving back to the neighborhood that raised them. Tobar dubs it “renaissance by the refineries.”
He writes about 24-year-old Kat Madrigal, who started a blog called the Wilmington Wire, and Robert Jones, a 21-year-old CSU Dominguez Hills student who teaches at the Wilmington Empowerment Project. Jones wants to return to Banning High to teach. Also mentioned is artist Oscar Duarte, who helped start the Wilmington Enrichment Community Artist Network, or WECAN.
The column points out the disparity made evident by Wilmington’s proximity to the affluent Palos Verdes Peninsula:
From just about anywhere in Wilmington and the communities that surround it, you can look up and see the hills of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, an island of prosperity floating in the distance and a constant reminder to locals of where they stand in the world.
Sumiko Braun, a Carson native and actress, recently took a group of Wilmington and Long Beach teenagers up to Palos Verdes as part of a “reality tour” organized by members of the One Imagination collective. It was her way of sharing with neighborhood young people some of the lessons she’d learned in college.
“We started off in Wilmington, by the refineries, and went up to PV … and then back down to South L.A. and Watts,” Braun told me. They compared the schools, medical facilities and grocery stores and looked at other measures of social health. “The differences were drastic and extreme,” she said. “When we were done, a lot of the students got emotional about it, because they didn’t realize until that moment how this city works.”
That basically explains my year at New Visionsjust kidding.
And yes, thats in quotations because its one of the many infamous words said by our teacher (we have a whole list of quotes, but we arent going to publish it due to the endangerment of being sued for libel).
We knew this day would come (some of us couldnt wait). Its the end of the year and weve successfully completed with New Visions: Journalism & Media Studies. We have to say goodbye to our beloved White House, the halls of the Times Union, the studio at The College of Saint Rose, and to our mentor Ms. Anne-Marie Sheehan.
It was more work than anyone would know. Between writing news stories at the TU, shootin vids with the crew at the College of Saint Rose, blogging, and doing work in our internships.
Special thanks to Michael Huber for setting up our blog for us and toeveryone at the Albany Times Union. It was an experience that I would not change for the world. Also, a huge thank you to Fred Antico, our professor at the College of Saint Rose for helping us on all of our video projects. Without Fred, we would basically be sitting around the halls of Saint Rose.
I am so ahead of everyone Im graduating with at Middleburgh High School (only 54 of usbut still). Im going to Ithaca in the fall to study Integrated Marketing Communications and its all thanks to this year at New Visions.
I will miss walking into the full of my New Visions classmates saying my infamous Gooooood morning!. Ill miss Taylor Raos sass (JK I get to deal with it all next year). Ill miss Michael eating cheese sticks. Im going to miss Jackies arguments, Katies insightful funny and witty comments, Michelles obsession with cats and beards. Ill miss my twin Tobi. Ill miss Roberts OH MY GODTHEYRE EVERYWHEREEVERYWHEREEVERYWHERE.
Its a surreal moment. Everyone in this class has changed my life in one way or another.
All I can say is I am so glad that I was able to spend my Senior year here at the Times Union and College of Saint Rose.
To the future New Visions classes: GET OFF OF FACEBOOK! Just kidding, but do your work for Ms. Sheehan. Youre going to have a great time and itll be an amazing experience. If you need any help, dont be afraid to add me on Facebook or send me a Tweet.