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We Are Righetti

As some of you may know, Lukas, Alec, and I have started a blog called We Are Righetti to let he world know (after recent events) how great the students at our school actually are! You can email your story to wearerighetti@gmail.com or contact any of us! Below is where you can learn what we're looking for! 

"As Righetti students we are generalized into a general populous and when a small group of students makes poor decisions we all get made out as those students. The We Are Righetti blog is for the rest of the students to share their stories, accomplishments, challenges, and thoughts to show the rest of the community that we are amazing individuals with our own brilliant stories.  Share your story and show that YOU are Righetti."

As an incentive to produce a masterpiece, 30 (yes, thirty!) Sphinx points for sending in a great, quality story! If everyone sends in a good story, everyone gets points!

Don't be afraid to let your families know and spread the word. 

Happy Holidays
-Victoria

Website info: http://wearerighetti.blogspot.com/

Free points???

Today's the end of the semester, so in the spirit of that comment with plans for over break to get 20 points. First 10 people get points. By the way, I plan to continue doing this, so it helps to check the blog frequently!!!

Emilio has taken my study group's test and put them away everyday when we used them in AP Microeconomics. He deserves points!!

Experiment!!

I wanted to know how many people actively check this blog. So the first 10 to comment to this post with any random fact get 20 points!!!! Game on!

Music people in England- reeeeeaaaaaching out to youuuuuuu in the US of A

I teach music at a university in the UK, and one of my classes joined Nathan playing ukulele in one of Dr. Preston's classes via skype. My students are keen to connect with you guys. They have ideas, but don't really know how to make the direct connections... and I am no good at being a middle man(girl/lady/not-really-grown-up-person) and so I asked Jayce and Omar if I could post and put up a few of their blogs so maybe there could be a more direct link.

From January, my students will be planning and teaching lessons (1-to-1 private music lessons) and it might be fun if some of you were interested in doing a skype with them, or a video exchange, or something - I throw that out to you! It is certainly not required for their course, but has a lot do do with how they might use music in life, would be great for their learning, and hopefully would be fun! All of my students have had police checks before starting their course (because that's what you have to do in the UK to work with any minors)... so they have all been checked out to be decent people...

As for connecting - a couple of the people have blogs -
Pete the guitar player: petemaherguitar.wordpress.com
Rosie who plays organ: chichesterorganist.wordpress.com
Victoria (violinist) victoriaj94.wordpress.com
Others are on twitter:
Victoria (sax): @ToriHands
Jess (singer) @Jess_Bhatty (and here: https://soundcloud.com/jessandlaura-1/stay-with-me-cover )
Andrew (guitar) @woodeywood
Rebecca (clarinet) @beckieboo_94
Harriet (singer) @harrietcarter
Sarah (singer) @SarahHooplah

In the class we have violin, cello, guitar (acoustic and electric), piano, voice, organ, clarinet, sax, flute, and maybe a few more instruments... it is a jolly bunch and we would love to connect. Please feel free to introduce yourself or invite them to join in! I'm happy to connect too if you guys think up any projects. As someone who spent childhood summers in California, and now lives in the UK, I do believe the world is huge, but it is also a small place!

Have a great Saturday!

Review

25 points for Matt and Noah for volunteering to be scorekeeper and MC

10 points to period 4 class for realizing prisoner's dilemma and beating the system by creating one large group.

10 points to Alyssa for remembering to give people points

Everyone Deserves Points for Something...

Everyone basically gains 30 points for Remixing Poetry because as you know, that takes creativity.

Moving rocks with Eric Jackson

Hi I am Michael, yesterday I really needed help and Eric Jackson answered that call.  My family had around 5 tons of small rocks delivered for us to renovate our backyard. He came and helped me moves all of these rocks and he was such a great help. For his hard work I believe that he deserves quite a bit of points for his hours of work. About 50 I believe.

Win yourself an A

The first person to 150 points by the end if the semester wins an A in English from Dr.Preston. Anyone can play to win and everyone should be invited to be an author with the exception of some people in 5th period. Once you accept authorship you will be awarded your first 10 points ( with the exception of 5th period who will win 15 points because they are at disadvantage due to technical difficulties). 

Remember that this is a learning community that shows growth and helps everyone learn collaboratively so who knows maybe if this is a tough race then many of the close competitors will be considered for a increased grade. 

Yosemite Trip Round 2

Hey it's Bree! Haley and I are trying to put together another Yosemite trip for the seniors this year and we need to know a general idea of how many people would like to attend. So if anyone is interested you can contact me via email at breerodriguez97@gmail.com We need around 25 people at least in order to start the paperwork and planning through Naturebridge so let your friends know as well! Thanks :)