Monday. November 11th, is Veteran's Day. All Schools are closed for students and staff in observance.

Did you know "In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…”

It wasn't until 1954 that the 83rd Congress, at the urging of the Veterans service organizations, amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word “Armistice” and inserting in its place the word “Veterans.” With the approval of this legislation (Public Law 380) on June 1, 1954, November 11th became a day to honor American Veterans of all wars."

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As a reminder in November, we will focus on one way you can boost your academic skills and stay motivated.

This week, we will focus on the Growth Mindset. Having a Growth Mindset can boost your academic skills and help you remain motivated by teaching you to think of strategies and changing your self-talk to help you navigate academics when they seem difficult.

Students With a Fixed Mindset have the following characteristics:

• Think their abilities cannot be changed with effort
• Avoid challenging themselves
• Hate making mistakes and see them as a personal failure
• Don’t accept constructive criticism
• See making an effort as a chore

Students With a Growth Mindset have the following characteristics:

• Believe they will improve their skills with hard work
• Welcome challenges
• Perceive errors as learning opportunities
• Are open to feedback
• Love to make an effort when learning

If you took a look at those characteristics, can you find reasons why students with Growth Mindset would be able to overcome challenges they may face? It's having a "can-do" attitude and living by it!

Students taking Life Science (Biology) and Government will have the EOC exam account for 20 percent of their final course grade as required by 13A.03.02 Graduation Requirements for high schools in Maryland.

Have you tried to use the student notes available in Edgenuity?

You can access an online digital notebook, or eNotes. The eNotes are located on the first tab of the lesson support pane. You can enter a new note in the text-entry field at the bottom of the pane. To add the note to their digital notebook, students simply click Save. To edit a note that was previously entered, students can click anywhere in the note; this will move to the note to the text-entry field so it can be modified and saved.

he Advanced option provides a full menu of text formatting tools, including:

• Copy/paste
• Undo/Redo
• Bold, italics, underline, strikethrough
• Subscript/superscript
• Bullets and numbered lists
• Spell check as you type (SCAYT)
• Special characters (foreign language characters, Greek letters, other symbols)
• Tables
• Equation editor

To exit Advanced mode (and return to standard note-taking mode), students can click the Hide Advanced link or the double-arrow icon just under the eNotes tab.

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