NCP: Pepsi Grant!

so, recently, via FC, my school notified me that they were in the running for a Pepsi Grant worth some couple thousand dollars, and i would like to put up this link to help them out (you can vote daily!!)

http://www.refresheverything.com/21cc

our school is getting budget cuts this year, and i will rant about that... right... now.

so, this year, we are more then a few thousand dollars short for funding.

every year, we have our cubby walk, which raises money for the school, but apparently that's not enough. at all.

our JV teams got cut this year, meaning no varsity sports.

many, many teachers will be let go of (i belive it was every one out of four teachers), so our class sizes will get bigger. which sucks, because one of the things i LOVE about NS is that our class sizes are relatively small.

and we were hoping for PCs for the entire school next year--i don't know how that is gonna happen. this year freshmen could choose to have them for an extra couple hundred bucks. and they are placed in their own classes so they do not have a priviledge over other students. nice. and they even use them for PE!!

i would love to get one for school. they would help out so much since i always forget hmwk @ home.

i mean, we seem like a new, rich-people school, but that's just cause our shool is new (it's only 10 years old! it's prob the newest CPS HS!!). that's why.

but our pepsi ranking went from 200th to 46th in a week, and we are far from being close to winning, so i will for sure do my part and vote daily.

it's SO easy!!

NCP: Freshmen & block scheduling

visit wikipedia! i edit the page for northside!

I should have started writing this as a freshman, but i didn't, so here i am now.

 

maybe cause i'm a nerd, but i found myself one day on wikipedia.org and saw northside's page. how little info on there surprized me.

 

So, options for freshmen:

 

• MATH (IMP): 1 (algebra) or 2 (geometry) you can skip into IMP2 by placement testing or getting credit from your previous school. only approved programs can give credit--i was so surprized and maddened by this: all of us in algebra that year knew algebra. we just didn't get credit. so unfair.
• LITURATURE: Survey of Lit. or Speech & Debate: only can be skipped by credit. only option when i was a freshman, but know, you can aparently skip to British Liturature (Lit. 3)! so unfair. last year's freshmen HAD to take speech & debate. (normally it is an elective for lit. credit)
• P.E.: not optional. you HAVE to take health/physical education. it works like this: 1st quarter: you either do P.E. or health; next quarter you would do something else. (ie, you have P.E. 1st quarter--next quarter, you'll take health)
• SOCIAL SCIENCE (social studies) WORLD STUDIES or APUSH. not by placement testing.
• SCIENCE: physics. YOU HAVE TO TAKE PHYSICS FRESHMEN YEAR. no other choice.
• ELECTIVE: any elective is open to freshmen:
• art (I or II: only skip by putting together a art portfolio and submitting),
• music (chorus [singing], band [wind instruments], orchestra [strings]),
• computers (either computer science [basic computer stuff] or alice [softwear programming]).

 

... so yea.
HOW THE DAY WORKS:
7:55am-8:05am:Advisory (A.K.A. homeroom) for 10 min. they do take attendence!
TARDIES: line up. have IDs out. if you don't have it, they need to print one out for you. $1.
8:05am-8:10am: Passing Period. they *normally* put on music to signal end/start of passing period. 8 min. for all except for advisory-->1st block (it's only 5 min.)
8:10am-9:50am: 1st/5th block (all full blocks are 100 min: ~2 hrs)
9:50am-9:58am: passing period
9:58am-11:38am: 2nd/6th blcok
11:38am-11:46am: passing period
11:46am-1:26pm: 3rd/7th block
1:26pm-1:34pm: passing period
1:34pm-3:14pm: 4th/8th block last block of the day. we get out @ pi. lol. 3:14 nerds.
there are such things has 1/2 block!!!
so: half block. lunch is one of them. you get ~50 min to eat lunch. or do homework. they only serve food the first 15~20 min of lunch.
2a & 6a lunch/block
3a & 7a lunch/block
so this is how it works: you get either a 2A, 3A, 6A, or 7A lunch. that takes up 1/2 block. the nest block is a class. so that class (whatever it may be, like health/P.E. or any other class) you will have everyday.

visit wikipedia! i edit the page for northside! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northside_college_prep

northside offers: (used to offer Korean, but b/c of budget and small classroom size, the course was dropped in the 2009-2010 school year)

• Mandarin Chinese
• French
• German
• Japanese
• Latin
• Spanish

English:

• English I-IV
• AP Lit&Comp
• AP Lang&Comp
• Jornalism I-IV
• Creative Writing I & II (must be at least a sophomore, complete an application, and be approved)Shakespeare & Contemporary Fiction (must be at least a sophomore)
• Multicultural Lit.
• Reading & Writing Across Disciplines (must be at least a junior and receive approval)
• Drama (must be at least a sophomore)
• Speech & Debate I & II (must submit an application and receive approval)
• Topics in World Lit: Existential Lit (must be at least a sophomore)

Social Science

• World Studies
• HUSH
• History of Chicago
• Soc/Psych
• APUSH
• AP Psych
• AP US Gov
• AP Micro
• AP Europ
• Sustainable Engineering & Economic Development

Science:

• Physics
• Chem
• Bio
• Marine Sci
• Enviro

Math:

• IMP I-IV
• AP Stat
• AP Calc
• Multi-variable