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During the month of December, students may earn 10 bonus points by participating in a community service activity and showing Mr. Williams proof of the participation.

There are several activities on campus:

1. Student Council is making cards to send to a leukemia victim who wants to set the world record for card collecting.
2. National Honor Society is collecting 12″ teddy bears for kids in need.
3. Another club will be sponsoring giving trees in the main and A-buiding offices.
4. ROTC will probably have a service opportunity.
5. ??

Also, any community service opportunity will count:

1. Working as a Salvation Army Bell Ringer.
2. Donating food to one of the local food banks.
3. Church related community service.
4. Activities related the 4H or Scouting.
5. ??

Bring in proof of you participating in any service activity this month and you will be awarded 10 bonus points. You might bring in pictures of yourself, a note from a parent or organization leader, a receipt for a donated purchase, etc. Use your imagination, and get into the spirit of the season.

Happy Holidays,

-Mr. W.

This extra credit is only good from 12/1/09 to 12/18/09 and will count on 2nd quarter.

Reminder about extra credit: Mr. Williams records all of your extra credit, but none of it becomes part of your grade until the last day of the quarter. For your extra credit to improve your grade, you must first have a passing grade (60%) on the regular work. (Honors students must have at least 70%.)

During the month of November, students may earn 10 bonus points by making two unique (as in not in the dictionary & you make them up) words comprised of Greek roots and posting them in a comment below with clever, dictionary-like definitions.

Each word must must contain at least two roots, but three is better.

At the end of the month, classes will vote for the most clever, funny, well-defined, real-sounding word. The student whose word wins will receive an additional 10 points.

To get the extra credit please complete the following steps:

1. Fill in the comment form that appears after clicking on “comments” below. Then post your words with definitions.
2. Please “sign” your comments with your first name and class period.
3. You do not need to print anything out. Mr. Williams will track the comments and put in your extra credit automatically.

The purpose of this exercise is for students to learn how to add comments in a discussion thread. I wonder if we’ll have online discussions in the future?

Also, if you have a suggestion for extra credit for December and I use it, and I’ll give the student who makes the suggestion 10 points. Please email me the suggestion: MrW.PVHS at gmail.com

This extra credit is only good from 11/1/09 to 11/3o/09 and will count on 2nd quarter.

Reminder about extra credit: Mr. Williams records all of your extra credit, but none of it becomes part of your grade until the last day of the quarter. For your extra credit to improve your grade, you must first have a passing grade (60%) on the regular work. (Honors students must have at least 70%.)

-Mr. W.

During the month of October, students may earn 5 points of extra credit by saying something nice about a classmate in the comments to this post.

To get the extra credit please complete the following steps:

1. Fill in the comment form that appears after clicking on “comments” below and say something nice about another student in class.
2. After you make an initial compliment, nicely respond to someone else’s compliment.
3. You must make two comments to earn the five points, one original compliment and a NICE response to someone’s compliment.
4. Please “sign” your comments with your first name and class period.
5. You do not need to print anything out. Mr. Williams will track the comments and put in your extra credit automatically.

The purpose of this exercise is for students to learn how to add comments in a discussion thread. I wonder if we’ll have online discussions in the future?

Feel free to post an interesting question for an online discussion.

This extra credit is only good from 10/1/09 to 10/31/09

Reminder about extra credit: Mr. Williams records all of your extra credit, but none of it becomes part of your grade until the last day of the quarter. For your extra credit to improve your grade, you must first have a passing grade (60%) on the regular work. (Honors students must have at least 70%.)

-Mr. W.