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The Mentor Schools
Foundation strives to enrich and enhance
the Mentor Schools curriculum by
providing financial resources for new
and exciting learning opportunities
beyond the classroom.
The district-wide
“I Write to Read” Essay Contest
encouraged fifth grade students to write
and submit essays about how reading has
changed his/her life.
Several students were selected as
winners from all the elementary schools
and these winners received a $25 gift
card to Borders and a pocket dictionary.
“Racial Prejudice”
presentation entitled “Move to the
Back of the Bus” in which every
seventh grader at Shore Junior High
participated in an interactive drama
about the civil rights movement.
They experienced this drama and
then read “The
Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963”
Shore
Junior High School has
begun an inquiry project entitled
“Scaled Geologic Timeline Mural”.
The students are painting on a
hall wall of the school a to-scale model
of the geologic timeline.
To accomplish this, students
calculate mathematically the ratios for
the lengths of time, research names of
the time periods and their respective
life forms.
The mural will depict 3-D images
and explanations for each period
displayed.
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Mentor High Schools Future Leaders and
71 students and advisors from
neighboring schools enjoyed a nationally
known motivational speaker, Mr. Bruce
Boguski.
The goal of the session was to
build a spirit of teamwork and
empowerment via a program entitled “The
Flight of the Goose”.
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