How to Guide and Advise Your Freshman

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How to Guide and Advise Your Freshman

• A Parents Guide

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Reality Check

• When a student becomes a freshman, everything
  starts to count.
• Freshman activities, honors, and awards can be
  listed on college and scholarship applications.
• Freshman grades are used in determining GPA
• Freshman courses, grades, and credits all become
  part of the students transcript.

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4 Step Plan for Success

• Monitor Academic Progress
• Encourage your child to become involved in a wide
  variety of activities
• Review four-year high school plan - ILP
• Help your child plan meaningful activities for
  the summer

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Monitor Academic Progress

• Make sure that you see all progress reports and
  report cards.
• Do not assume that someone will contact you if
  there is a problem.
• Provide encouragement and support, making certain
  that your child understands that freshman grades
  are very important.
• Check grades online via Infinite Campus
• POC Gayla Barnard at Central Office

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Encourage your child to become involved in a wide
variety of activities

• Be involved and take a leadership role
• Depth of involvement is also important because it
  shows focus and commitment
• Participate in activities outside of school
  (church, scouting, recreational sports)
• Volunteer work and community service (Any type of
  volunteer work or community service is
  particularly impressive on an application)
• Start keeping a file with lists and
  information on school activities, honors,
  awards, leadership positions, employment,
  volunteer work, community activities, etc.
  Include everything!

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Review 4 year High School Plan

• In the spring, review your son or daughters
  four-year high school plan and make certain
  he/she has selected the most appropriate courses
  for his/her sophomore year.
• ILP (Individualized Learning Plan)

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Meaningful Summer Activities

• A number of colleges have excellent summer
  programs available for high school students
• Make college visits
• Join an athletic team, take a course, take
  lessons, read
• Volunteer at a local hospital, nursing home, etc.

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• THE
• HIGH
• SCHOOL
• TRANSCRIPT

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TRANSCRIPTS

• On a transcript, only the semester grades
• are printed for each class
• 1st Semester 2nd Semester
• 1st nine wks 40 3rd nine wks 40
• 2nd nine wks 40 4th nine wks 40
• Semester Exam 20 Semester Exam 20
• Exceptions Biology, Alg 2, Eng 2, US History

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SAMPLE TRANSCRIPT

• 2012-2013 Grade 9 Term 2 2012-2013 Grade 9 Term
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• Course Mark Weight Credit Course Mark Weight
  Credit
• Survey 83 0.5000 0.5 Survey 97 0.5000
  0.5
• Eng 1 CP 91 0.5000 0.5 Eng 1 CP 89 0.5000
  0.5
• Alg 1 CP 91 0.5000 0.5 Bio 93 1.0000
  1.0
• Health 96 0.5000 0.5 Alg 1
  CP 75 0.5000 0.5
• Span I 90 0.5000 0.5 PE 1 99
  0.5000 0.5
• Span I 92 0.5000 0.5
• Credits 2.5 U/W GPA Credits3.5 U/W
  GPA
• Total Credits 6.0
• Cumulative GPA

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EHS Graduation Requirements

• 4 Credits - Language Arts - English I, II, III,
  IV
• 3 Credits - Math Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra
  II (but must take math all four
  years)
• 3 Credits - Science Biology, Introduction to
  Science, Chemistry
• 3 Credits - Social Studies Survey of Social
  Studies, World Civilization, US History
• .5 Credit - Health (Recommended during 9th or
  10th grade)
• .5 Credit - PE (Recommended during 9th or 10th
  grade)
• 1 Credit - History and Appreciation of Visual and
  Performing Arts (or Band/Chorus for two
  consecutive years)
• 7 Electives
• TOTAL 22 CREDITS

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Classification of Students

• MUST HAVE
• 4 CREDITS TO BE A SOPHOMORE
• 10 CREDITS TO BE A JUNIOR
• 16 CREDITS TO BE SENIOR
• 22 CREDITS TO GRADUATE
• Explanation of Credits
• 70 OR ABOVE TO EARN CREDIT
• EACH SEMESTER ½ CREDIT
• AUG. DEC. 1ST SEMESTER
• JAN. MAY 2ND SEMESTER
• EACH CLASS 1 CREDIT per year

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Freshman Orientation

• School Tour
• A Typical Day at EHS and Student Life
• New Opportunities and Academic Expectations
• Discipline and Dress Code
• Library 101
• KEES Information

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Bell Schedule

• 740 Students released to lockers
• 747 Warning bell
• 750 Tardy Bell-all students in class. Must
  have a pink tardy slip from the office to
  enter classroom after this time
• 750 845 1st period
• 850 940 2nd period
• 945 1035 3rd period
• 1040 1130 CCR
• 1135 1255 4th period and Lunch 1130 1155
• 1200 1225
• 1230 1255
• 100 150 5th period
• 155 250 6th period

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CCRCollege Career Readiness

• Reading Intervention
• Math Intervention
• Study Skills

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BIOLOGY Insect Collection

• All Biology classes will participate
• The project will be due approximately two weeks
  after school begins

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SCHOOL FEES

• Student Fees will be due during the first week of
  school
• Textbook Fee 25
• Classroom Fees will be collected by classroom
  teacher
• Broadcasting Fee 20
• Computer Class Fee 10
• PE Fee 5
• Science Lab Fees
• Biology 10
• Breakfast 1.25
• Lunch 2

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DRESS CODE

• Site Base Policy 6.02
• Located in agenda and on high school website
• Students must be in dress code from the time they
  walk in the building in the morning until 250

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SUPPLIES

• Open House Wednesday, August 1st from
• 600 pm 800 pm
• First day of school pencil, pen, paper,
  folder
• Other supplies needed binders, calculator, tab
  dividers, index cards
• STUDENTS NEED THEIR SUPPLIES EVERYDAY

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Grading Scale

• A 95 100 4.0
• B 88 94 3.0 3.86
• C 77 87 2.0 2.91
• D 70 76 1.0 1.86
• F 0 69 0

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KEES KY Educational Excellence Scholarship

• In 1998 Governor Paul Patton and the General
  Assembly provided an opportunity for Kentucky
  high school students to earn the Kentucky
  Educational Excellence Scholarship. KEES is a
  scholarship program that rewards students who
  earn C or better grades with scholarship money
  to attend one of Kentuckys colleges or Technical
  schools.
• The higher the grades the student makes the more
  money that he/she earns. A bonus award for the
  highest ACT (15 or higher) composite or SAT
  scores can also be earned. Over the 4-year high
  school period students could earn as much as
  2500 to apply toward their post-secondary
  education each year for up to four years of
  post-secondary school. That is 10,000 for a
  4-year program and 5000 for a two-year program.
  There are GPA requirements for the renewal of the
  scholarship each year.
• Students and parents can visit www.kheaa.com to
  see a complete listing of post-secondary schools
  that can accept the KEES scholarship and to find
  more information. Students are encouraged to
  create an account and check their KEES accounts
  at the end of each year.

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KEES Base Award
GPA Amount
2.5 125
2.6 150
2.7 175
2.75 187
2.8 200
2.9 225
3.0 250
3.1 275
3.2 300
3.25 312
3.3 325
3.4 350
3.5 375
3.6 400
3.7 425
3.75 437
3.8 450
3.9 475
4.0 500
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KEES Bonus Award
Act Score Bonus
15 36
16 71
17 107
18 143
19 179
20 214
21 250
22 286
23 321
24 357
25 393
26 428
27 464
28 500
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COMMUNICATION WITH TEACHERS

• Email is best form of communication
• Firstname.lastname_at_etown.kyschools.us
• Example jane.conway_at_etown.kyschools.us
• Call 769-3381 and leave message

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PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES

• Contact Guidance Office to set up conference
  (Mrs. Franklin)
• Indicate which teachers you would like to meet
  with and if you would like to have a counselor
  present

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Contact Information

• Students Last Name A J
• Lisa.Mudd_at_etown.kyschools.us
• Students Last Name K Z
• Melissa.Butler_at_etown.kyschools.us
• EHS 769-3381
• EHS website http//www.etown.k12.ky.us/sch_EHS/de
  faultehs.htm

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