Student Success Statement

"It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to the win that makes a difference."

Paul Bear Bryant

Paul Bear Bryant means you need to make a difference in someone, in something, in whatever. To make your mark in a start of advancement to being something revolutionary for the greater good, to do something inspiring. It's like the toy drive at school, it encourages students to help the less fortunate even by little means but a toy is a toy and you are helping and making a difference. It's to have the ability to create an opportunity for someone to help you and become a better person. In the end that's all to do become a better person for yourself and others.

Paul "Bear" Bryant

Paul Bear Bryant 

           Paul Bryant was an American college football player and coach. He was born on September 11, 1913 - January 26, 1983. He was Alabama's head coach with six national championships, he had a record of most wins as a head coach. He had a deep voice and a trademark black and white hat. He coached at the Universities of Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas A&M. He passed away in 1983 after a massive heart attack. 

Improvement

Hpiam Data

• FACT: 34% of HPIAM students have below a 2.0 GPA

• Why is this a worrying statistic?

                    -Will not graduate
What are some specific reasons you think is happening? How can we solve this problem?

• People are getting careless with the new schedule.
• No one cares because of the uniform.
• Now we have freshman. 
• It's because of freshman.
• It's overcrowded. 

We can solve these problems by changing the schedule, no more uniforms and no longer have freshman just sophomores, juniors and seniors. 

Working Notebook

The working notebook is the daily notebook taken to class. It holds all the papers and information needed each day. Any three-ring binder can serve as a working notebook; the nylon zippered type tends to last longer. Your working notebook should contain:

• A portable three-hole punch

• A zippered pouch with three holes to hold highlighters, pencils, pens, clips, "sticky notes", and other small supplies

• A monthly calender

• A ruler

• Section dividers for each subject labeled homework, notes, handouts, and quizzes/tests

• An assignment book   

These items are available at most office supply stores in a three-hole punched format so they can be easily inserted into the notebook. This is important, because if the items are not attached to the notebook, they will get lost in backpacks or left at home or school.

One working notebook for all of your child's classes might be too large for some students especially if they are in high school.  Two medium-size notebooks with two or three subjects in each is an alternative to one large notebook. Morning classes might be placed in one, and afternoon classes might be placed in another.

Whichever alternative noted above that you choose, the important thing is that on a daily basis, you should date, three-hole punch and file any of his school papers under the appropriate divider for each subjects. You should also note assignments in detail in his assignment book/

HPIAM: ADVISORY PROJECT

Next Tuesday, November 5, bring all your work from all classes in order to show the organization required from each class. You will have time in Advisory to hole-punch and organize your binders, folders, notebooks, etc. so you need to come prepared.

Prompt 4:

Thanks to the Internet, people have more access to more information than at any other time in history. People can instantly find information on almost any topic in the time it takes to type a couple of words and click a mouse. But we often know so little about the source of this information, including its reliability and the qualifications of the person who wrote it. If we don't know its source, information is not much good to us.

1. Do people need to know the source of any information before they use it? Yes, it's better because you know if it's RELIABLE OR NOT

2. Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experiences and observations. 

Reliable Sources:

The Internet allows you so many opportunities to make your life easier. At the drop of a hat you can get information. Information is so easy to access it allows you to become an amazing writer, or whatever you want to be. But how can you know if it's reliable or not.

When you know it's reliable you are allowed to use it, at least for essays and such. A teacher wants you to use reliable information not just information you make up, what teacher would? When you have essays to write you can just use things you made up.

A reliable source will give you valid information to use and you know it's true. You can't go around and claim something without sufficient facts and everything. You can't be a reliable person without reliable evidence. You need information on things to know what your doing.

In any given instant you also need information to know what to talk about, you can just be completely biased and everything. You need some information to know what to talk about. Don't go willy nillying around giving your two cents about nothing you know about.

You just need sufficient evidence in everything you do. That means a reliable source of someone who knows what they're talking about. Don't go around just talking about things you don't know anything about. Get a reliable resource!

Pop Culture.

Many colleges now offer courses in which students study television programs, comic books, magazines and advertising, and other aspects of pop culture. Critics complain that schools should not replace serious literature and history courses with such fluff. They claim that courses in popular culture present material that is trivial and inconsequential. But the study of pop culture can be just as important, demanding, and instructive as the study of traditional subjects.

Can the study of popular culture be as valued as the study of traditional literary and historical subjects?

No it cannot be because of the way it is viewed, pop culture is not to be as valued as history. 

Can something be valued as priceless as traditional literature? How about history? What really is history. History as well as traditional literature can be valued as priceless. Can something be valued the same?

Well pop culture is how we see like celebrities and fashion and what not, but how can that be valued the same as something revolutionary such as a war perhaps? Yes popular culture is important to be seen throughout the human era but I don't believe it should be the same as literature. Literature can depict fantasy or anything but how can that be the same. Pop culture is important but not in the sense that is is valued greater or equal it is probably valued the same because it is pop culture. 

History can depict anything for anything important in time, how can that be equal to pop culture? Yes someday pop culture will be viewed as equal because it may or may not be recorded in our history. It is amazing how it works out actually. It is not important until it's gone.

Now as for literature it is old books or stories. It makes for either a great real or fiction book, a possible recount of history maybe. Our society will probably make people think we had bad taste like us to old things. But in any sense we appreciate it is there. 

In conclusion literature and history cannot be the same value as pop culture until it is gone. People make things seem important because of how it is but we need to say hey we're not there yet.  

GPA

1) What does GPA stand for?
Grade Point Average
2) What does a GPA show?
It shows how well you're doing in school.
3) Why is a GPA important?
-It shows your grades
-It shows if you need to work harder
-It allows you to make better choices
-It will give you a better chance of going to a good school
-It will help you get into a better school
-It will help with getting a better job
-It will allow you to become someone you want to be
Does Your GPA really matter?