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Renaissance Academy Semester 2 Honor Roll 2009-10

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Crater Renaissance Academy

Semester 2 Honor Roll

4.0 GPA
Freshmen:
Amanda Adams, Reyanna Blank, Nikolas Brewer, Renee Coffman, Marielle Durand, Lauren Foster, Hale Gervais, Stephanie Gill, Celeste Gutierrez, Kaylee Prislac, Kierstyn Smith, Thomas Wagenet, Kaylee Walker, Kayla Yother, Mathew Young

3.5 to 3.99 GPA
Freshmen:

Jerilyn Armstrong, Madeline Bern, Rebecca Gilworth, Matyson Harlow, Tiffany Hope, Renae McElravay, Felicia Pierce, Gage Reddington, Nicholas Roady, Steven Watson

4.0 GPA
Sophomores:

Tanecia Jason, Eilish Lambrechtsen, Diana Mancilla, Jenna Parsons, Sara Quackenbush, Kayla Tadlock

3.5 to 3.99 GPA
Sophomores:

Edith Corona, Kaitlyn Davis, Katie Hansen, Chrislyn Kircher, Cody Lord, Zachary Lunte, Kayla Pankonin, Braxton Parker, Amber Smith, Alsacea Stauffer, Kahler Waldrop

4.0 GPA
Juniors:

Alex Finlayson, Eshjaia Gervais, Lacey Haight, Kassandra Hirsch-Reddington, Magon Meeker, Isabel Spurlock, Emily Walley, Jessica Worley

3.5 to 3.99 GPA
Juniors:

Devin Barton-Diaz, Kayla Burch, Ashley Burgess, Samantha Edgerton, Emmily Greb, Katie Jones, Kristee Milkowski, Hunter Moore, Marilee Morgan, Taylor Mullaney, Kevin Pheley, Katherine Piland, Amy Puckett, Natasha Schroeder, Marissa Southmayd, Katherine Stone, Whitney Thomas, Krista Thorpe, Rebecca Vanduker, Sarah Williams, Aisha Young

4.0 GPA
Seniors:
Kayla Ackerman, Angelica Banuelos, Bethany Bielby, Hannah Bryant, Tanner Enes, Tarren Mitchell, Emily Wilder

3.5 to 3.99 GPA
Seniors:

Christopher Beatty, Stephanie Benston, Erica Blaisdell, Carly Davy, Jennifer Entwistle, Brittney Gfroerer, Thomas Gomes, Maile Guthrie, Jesseca Knorr, Cassity Mega, Samuel Mitchell, Joseph Mueller, Arielle Nelson, Shannon Paine, Victoria Versteeg, Ashley Winkler

Renaissance Daily Bulletin for Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Interested in participating in Fall Sports?
Interested in doing a Fall sport like Football, Cross Country, Volleyball, Girls or Boys Soccer? Come sign up and pick up your paperwork forms at the Athletic Office. Check to see if you need a new physical. All forms completed and signed must be turned into the athletic office by August 20

Lost and Found Table
All items in Lost and Found are currently displayed in front of the Renaissance office. Any unclaimed items will be turned in to Goodwill when school is out). Stop by and take a look!

Oregon Online Summer 2010
OREGON ONLINE SUMMER 2010 — Summer term classes begin June 21 Ð august 20. Registration for Summer ends June 30th. Cost is $115 for Southern Oregon residents. The fee must accompany the completed registration form. For a registration information packet come by Ms. Barber’s Office.

Fall Sports Info
2010-11 FALL SPORTS INFO — Interested in participating in a Fall sport like Football, Cross Country, Volleyball, Girls or Boys Soccer? Come sign up and pick up your paperwork forms at the Athletic Office. Check to see if you need a new physical. All forms completed and signed must be turned into the athletic office by August 20.

Attention Volleyball Players!
Volleyball meeting in room 17 on Wednesday, June 16 during the lunch hour. Come meet the new head coach and get the volleyball information for next Fall. There will be pizza available.

Playing Fall Sports?
~Interested in doing a fall sport like Football, Cross Country, Volleyball, Girls or Boys Soccer? Come sign up and pick up your paperwork at the Athletic Office. Check to see if you need a new physical. All forms must be completed, signed and turned into the athletic office by August 20th.

Recommended Summer Reading (Renaissance Staff Picks) 2010

Saturday, May 1st, 2010
Wondering what to read this summer (and for the rest of the year)? Here is a list
of some of the best, most inspiring and interesting books Renaissance staff
members have read, and which we think you might enjoy.

Choose wisely (and often!).
Staff Person Book Title Author
Deirdre Barber Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Middlemarch George Eliot
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
Vanity Fair William Thackeray
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Portrait of a Lady Henry James
Katie Barber Black Boy (longer version = American Hunger) Richard Wright
The Power of One Bryce Courtenay
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
The Color Purple Alice Walker
The Education of Little Tree Forrest Carter
Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
The Odyssey Homer
Black Elk Speaks Black Elk
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
Dave Epperson The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Foucault’s Pendulum Umberto Eco
Catch-22 Jospeh Heller
The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies William Golding
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Heningway
The Stranger Albert Camus
Heidi Harless Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley
(Ellerson) Carter Beats the Devil Glen David Gold
Interview with a Vampire Anne Rice
The Diary of the Artist Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
Georgia O’Keefe: A Life Roxana Robinson
The Red Tent Anita Diamant
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Mary, Called Magdalene Margaret George
Adrienne Hillman The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey
Longitude Dava Sobel
Cat’s Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
The River Why? David James Duncan
The Brothers K David James Duncan
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café Fannie Flagg
The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Awakening Kate Chopin
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Color Purple Alice Walker
A Reporter’s Life Walter Cronkite
Hiroshima John Hersey
Jacqui Larson Les Miserables Victor Hugo
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
A Whole New Mind Daniel Pink
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
The Return of the Native (or any other Hardy novel) Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy
The Eight Katherine Neville
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
The Lord of the Rings trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Emma Jane Austen
Lori Leedy Water for Elephants Sara Gruen
My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein
Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel
Night Elie Wiesel
The BFG Roald Dahl
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Sherman Alexie
The Face on the Milk Carton Caroline B. Cooney
How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents Julia Alvarez
Matthew Paradela Bible
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald
The Man Who Went Away Harold Bell Wright
Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Glory of Their Times Lawrence S. Ritter
The Lord of The Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis
Three Weeks With My Brother Nicholas & Micah Sparks
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
The Martyr’s Song Series Ted Dekker
The Shack William P. Young
Robin Reames Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
The Hour I First Believed Wally Lamb
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
Girl who Played with Fire & Girl in the Hornet’s Nest Stieg Larsson
Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert
(anything) Barbara Kingsolver
Sarah Suhrstedt Omnivore’s Delimma Michael Pollan
(Swanson) Botany of Desire Michael Pollan
Your Inner Fish Neil Shubin
The World Without Us Alan Weisman
The Double Helix James D. Watson
The Naked Ape Desmond Morris
The Beak of The Finch Jonathan Weiner
Survival of the Sickest Sharon Moalem
Armies of Pestilence R.S. Bray
Intelligent Thought John Brockman, ed.
The Richness of Life Stephan Jay Gould
Anthill Edward Wilson
The Hot Zone Richard Preston
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond
My First Summer in the Sierras John Muir
Cindy Yoak Exodus Leon Uris
Red Sky at Morning Richard Bradford
Bless The Beasts And The Children Glendon Swarthout
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Clan Of The Cave Bear Jean Auel
Lost Horizon James Hilton
The Shack William P. Young
Touching Spirit Bear Ben Mikaelsen
Mutant Message Down Under Marlo Morgan
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
Drawing From The Right Side Of The Brain Betty Edwards
Jeff Zundel Tao Te Ching Lao-Tzu (Stephen Mitchell translation)
Parzival Wolfram von Eschenbach
Lincoln Gore Vidal
Conversations with Tom Petty Tom Petty and Paul Zollo
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
The Historian Elizabeth Kostova
1984 George Orwell
A Day in the Life: The Music and Artisty of the Beatles Mark Hertsgaard
Dracula Bram Stoker
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
Timeline Michael Crichton
Rumi: Hidden Music Maryam Mafi (translator)
The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell

James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation 2010 Awardee

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Congratulations to Heidi Ellerson, Renaissance Graphic Design SLC teacher, for being awarded $4,650 from the Miller Grant Foundation.  Miss Ellerson was awarded the funding for Adobe CS software training and for video equipment to support this software in her classroom.

2008-2009 Oregon State Assessment Scores Released

Monday, August 31st, 2009

2009OSAT

2009-2010 Course Catalog

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Check out all the classes Renaissance Academy has to offer!  2009-2010 Course Catalog

CES Student & Teacher Surveys 2009

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

CES Student Survey 2009

CES Teacher Survey 2009

CES practice is exemplified by small, personalized learning communities where teachers and students know each other well in a climate of trust, decency and high expectations for all. Modeling democratic practices with a strong commitment to equity, Essential schools work to create academic success for every student by sharing decision-making with all those affected by the schools and deliberately and explicitly confronting all forms of inequity. And, Essential schools focus on helping all students use their minds well through standards-aligned interdisciplinary studies, community-based “real-world” learning and performance-based assessment.

Senior Exhibitions 2010!

Friday, May 8th, 2009

darylann-003During the week of June 1st , Renaissance seniors will be presenting their senior exhibitions in the library, PAC, conference room and room #603. Students will present before a panel of teachers, parents and community members.

The exhibitions are a culmination of a year-long process which students begin by choosing a research topic that can sustain their passion and interest for the whole year. They then organize and implement some type of project that ties to their research, and gives back to the community in some way.

Some examples of research and projects include:

Research into the negative impact of illegal drugs in people’s lives, the project inviting and organizing the Southern Oregon Meth Project’s Christina Anderson to speak to all freshman students.

Research into the positive effects of arts education on students’academic achievement, and the project, a “Battle of the Bands” concert to raise money for the Crater Marching Band.

Research into the positive effects of gardening and spending time outdoors, the project building a Zen garden with stepping stones in the Crater quad.

There are 80 more wonderful projects that seniors have spent countless hours on – we are VERY proud of our seniors and the work they’ve done this year.
If you are interested in participating as a judge for Renaissance senior exhibitions, please call Robin Reames at 541-494-6369.

Renaissance Students Are College Bound!

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

The Renaissance  Class of 2009 has big plans after high school. Some  of our students are entering the workforce and others are joining the military.  The majority of our students are headed toward some form of post-secondary education. Below is a list of colleges and universities where Renaissance  students have already been accepted.

  • Gonzaga University
  • University of Oregon 
  • Oregon State University 
  • Art Institute of Portland 
  • Portland State 
  • Southern Oregon University 
  • Oregon Institute of Technology
  •  Cottey College
  •  Concordia
  •  Air Force
  •  Marine Corp

We are very proud of all of you!

Course Catalog

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

2008-2009 Course Catalog

2009-2010 CRA Course List