FRIDAY FOCUS
Monomoy Regional High School's Weekly Newsletter
Published: February 4th, 2022
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SHARK SHOUTOUTS
- Shark shout out to Trish Mruz - who continues to inspire with her dedication to the students in her classes. She goes above and beyond - especially in building relationships and helping kids navigate the social and emotional challenges they face. Miss Trish is quiet and humble - and she never takes credit for things - but her compassion and empathy add a great deal to our school's culture. -Mr. George Sowpel
- A big Shark Shoutout to the two unidentified students who helped de-escalate a situation in the hallway yesterday. It is great to see students help their peers. It is one of the things I love about Monomoy - people helping each other out. -Mr. George Sowpel
- Shark Shout to Melinda Jones for the fantastic Chinese New Year decorations all around our school. The building looks beautiful and bright!! She has put so much time and effort into this celebration and it shows!! Thank you Melinda! Thanks also to Mimi van der Berg and The Diversity Club for their lovely Chinese New Year display. -Ms. Lisa Forte-Doyle
- Shark Shout out to student Ethan Ferrer who helped me put Valentine's Day decorations up high on Sandscript's "Love" poetry display at the top of the main staircase. I couldn't do it without him! Thanks Ethan! -Ms. Lisa Forte-Doyle
- Shark Shout Out to Senior Jade Kennedy for teaching the Creative Writing II: Global Outlook class about Israel: its beauty, its history, its culture, and her Israeli family!! She showed us wonderful photos of the countryside, the cities, and, of course, little Jade and her relatives. Thanks again, Jade! -Ms. Lisa Forte-Doyle
- The GSA would like to thank the many generous members of the Monomoy community who contributed toward their bake sale to benefit the Tadema-Wielandt family at recent Monomoy HS basketball games. Club members who helped out at the bake sale included Krystal, Dahlia, Charlotte, Faye, Ben, Ashe, Quill/Emersin and Raine. Thanks to everyone who helped out for this worthy cause. -Mr. Matthew Brown
Congrats to Edrian Wright and Orla Delaney!
School Store: Fabulous February Sale!
Sweatshirts for $15.00, T-shirts for $2.00, winter hats going fast for $5.00, and more bargains to be had.
Stop by and see us or visit us at the school's site.
Interact Community Service Project
Monomoy All Sports Booster Club Brick Fundraiser
Click the link to download the order form or the download form below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eOxXOqBSyeIIBtwjZWcoZoOjytdZWamL/view?usp=sharing
Global Studies Application Announcement
Are you interested in what is going on in the world? Would you like the chance to learn and talk about it more in school? Consider joining the MRHS Global Studies Program. You will have the chance to meet regularly, attend a Global Service Trip, do a senior research capstone project, and earn a second diploma at graduation. If you are interested, see Mr. Dickson and attend a Global Studies meeting Day 2 Jawsome A in room 141. Applications are available now from any history teacher and are due Monday, February 14. Applications can also be found online at https://www.monomoy.edu/domain/172
Poems
Inspired by Holocaust Remember Day, Mrs. Forte-Doyle's Honors English 10 class is currently studying the Holocaust by reading Elie Wiesel's NIGHT, watching the powerful French documentary, NIGHT AND FOG, and reading selections from POEMS OF AUSCHWITZ. In response to Wiesel's "Preface," students created "Found poems" for which they worked together to take the author's words and phrases and make powerful but beautiful poems (seen in the photo). They also took Chapter 1 of NIGHT and created powerful visuals. Each student was given particular pages from the Chapter to capture in words and drawings (also seen in the photo).
One can also see "Concrete poems" in this photo which the Creative Writing II: Global Outlook class created to represent what they learned about Israeli history and culture.
Let's go fly a kite!
Mrs. Forte-Doyle's World Literature CP class made kites, some to fly and some to represent the powerful themes in both THE KITE RUNNER and MASTER HAROLD...AND THE BOYS. Students who made kites to fly (extra credit for some of them) made them to either resemble Amir's kite from "Runner" or Sam's kite from "Harold." Both works of literature deal with complicated friendships, worlds of oppression, complex father/son relationships, and emotional pain. Even a couple of the World Literature Honors students got into the act and created extra credit kites!! The kites symbolize many things but the freedom and beauty they represent inspired us to run out to the turf field and fly them!! Cyrus Baker's kite was the best flyer AND it was also a wonderful collage of symbolism that represented both works. How did he do it? Below is a photo of a very proud Matt Barbella-Ranello with his beautiful Afghani kite!! The kites will be on display upstairs for the next month or so.
Thank you to Melinda Jones for the photos!
Harlem Wizards
The Wizards are coming to MRHS March 10th! Tickets are now on sale ONLINE ONLY! Get your tickets before they sell out! Discounted tickets are available until game day, $14 for students and $16 for adults. Click this link to Purchase Tickets
The Class of 2022 is looking for local businesses to sponsor hosting the Harlem Wizards. Sponsorships are $100 each and offset our cost to bring them here and the cost for their stay. If you or someone you know is interested, please provide a check written out to MRSD and send to Ms. Corrigan in room A221 or place in her mailbox with the front office. Make sure to include a business card. Sponsorships will be added to the online tickets and to our sponsorship ad book.
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SAT 2022 Dates
SENIORS
- It is scholarship season! Please be looking through Naviance for local scholarships. Directions are posted in the Senior Google Classroom.
Senior Parents
It is very important that if you have a college-bound senior, they are checking their college portals and following through with all instructions and deadlines. Each school is different and it is the student’s responsibility to check.
Thank you...
Thank you for those that attended the Junior Parent and Student Future Planning night. Individual family meetings will be set up with each counselor over the spring months.
Follow us on Social Media!
INSTAGRAM: @MonomoyGuidance
Wishing you health and safety,
The School Counseling Team
Caitlyn Hall, 8th Grade Counselor
Lindsay Ginnetty, A-F
Sean Burke, G-N
Jon Bennett, Instructional Leader, O-Z
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Weekly Athletic Summaries
This week for boys basketball we played Nantucket on tuesday. On the trip over to the island we were pumped up and ready to go. We started the game off strong with an early deficit to end the quarter. A lot of hustle plays and good teamwork kept us in the game. Great games by Michael Rocco and Finn Hyora led the team to a small comeback towards the end of the game but it was too late. The Sharks lost a good one in the end but the team knew they could play better.
BOYS ICE HOCKEY
Our game on Tuesday was lost 2-0 and our game yesterday was lost 8-4. Wyatt Archibald got 3 goals in the second game and Ryan Karle played very well, as well as Dominic Tsoukalas who stood on his head for the team. (Mitch Silva)
GIRLS ICE HOCKEY
On Tuesday, February 1st furies beat longmeadow 3-1. Two goals scored by Sophia Boucher and one by Julia Weiner. On Thursday, February 3rd furies beat pembroke 2-1. Goals scored by Gabriella Basset and Sienna reeves. (Eve Abboud)
CHEER
The cheer team is doing fantastic! We have been adjusting our stunts due to injuries and illnesses and many team members are stepping up and learning new positions! At practice recently, our focus has been our competition dance and gearing up for our first competition in just two weeks. Tammy Burke is assisting Robbin in putting a great routine together and we are so thrilled to have her help. This week we will be cheering on boy’s basketball on Friday and participating in senior night! (Becca Scott, senior captain)
Upcoming Athletic Dismissals
Mon. 2/7
Freshman/JV Boys Basketball @ 2:15
Wed. 2/9
V Girls Ice Hockey @ 11:45am
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Contact Us!
Email: mrhs@monomoy.edu
Website: https://www.monomoy.edu/Page/15
Location: 75 Oak Street, Harwich, MA, USA
Phone: 508-430-7200
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