Welcome to the Pride!

HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2019

RISING 9TH GRADE NIGHT

• Welcome: Mr. Adam, Principal

• HHS Background: Ms. Eicholtz, Director of Counseling

• Athletics: Mr. Petrella, Athletic Director

• Senior Perspective: Zack Perhach, Class of 2015

• Performing Arts: Dr. Vigil, Mr. Herrmann, Ms. Vereb, Ms. Brown

• Senior Perspective: Golda Houndoh, Class of 2015

• Academics and Setting Your Student Up for Success: Ms. Eicholtz

HERITAGE HIGH

SCHOOL

PRINCIPAL Mr. Jeff Adam

ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS Mr. Ross Armstrong, A-G

Ms. Kim Turner, H-N

Mr. Adrian Powell, O-Z

HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOL

• 2014-2015: 1,337 students • 2015-2016: (Projected) 1,425 students • Class of 2019: (Projected) 364 students

CLASS OF 2014

• 287 graduates

• 95% 2 & 4 year colleges

• 2% employment

• 2% other education

• 1% military

• $2.5 million in Scholarship Awarded

TAKING PRIDE IN OUR SCHOOL

• So far this year, HHS has won 4 Conference Titles (golf, XC, gymnastics, girls swim) and is home to the Wrestling Conference Champion.

• Girls Swim was 2014-2015 Region Champs and the 200 Medley Relay Team won states.

• Heritage is home to the All Met Athlete of the Year in XC, Weini Kelati.

• In 2004, a Heritage student began ‘Walking for Water,’ since then, HHS has raised over $140,000 to build 30 wells in Burkina Faso, Africa.

• Every year, our French Honor Society students serve as ‘Patients’ for Medic, EMT’s, and Fire Fighter testing at the LC Fire & Rescue to help the county first-responders in their training.

• Heritage is in its 11th year of its partnership with The Hannah-Arendt-Gesamtschule in Soest, Germany and has served as host-school for German students as well as sent students to Soest for exchange student opportunities.

• HHS piloted and developed the Dual Enrolled Geospatial Science Program, now available at 11 high schools and gaining state-level recognition.

• Last year, two teams of students competed in the High School Programming Competition at UVA and placed 5th and 13th out of 50 groups.

• T.W.E.L.V.E. was one of three high schools in VA selected to work with the Tallis Scholar's at Christopher Newport University in December.

• Every student who auditioned from Heritage earned perfect sight reading scores in their VA All State audition.

TAKING PRIDE IN OUR SCHOOL

• Heritage is the home of the Forensics Conference Champion, Golda Houndouh for Original Oratory.

• We have multiple Drama and Music students performing as soloists at the Kennedy Center this spring at the National Society of Arts and Letters awards ceremony.

• Heritage was selected for multiple Cappie-nominations and awards for the 2014 production of Les Miserables.

• HHS is a pilot school for Russian Language and Russian Studies Courses.

• Heritage was recognized as a 2014 “Blue Ribbon School” by W!SE Financial Literacy Certification Program for our excellent pass rate for the W!SE Financial Literacy Exam.

• Ms. Vereb, our choir director, was invited to speak at Christopher Newport University for a conference for future music educators this Spring.

• Ms. Valerie Yi , HHS English teacher, is being featured in a video series by LCPS TV as an Outstanding Teacher called “Cool for School.”

• Ms. Beth deButts, FACs teacher, was named 2015 Best Teacher in Loudoun in the Leesburg Today ‘Best of Loudoun’ Poll.

• We support the Backpack Buddies Program, by providing weekend backpacks of food for those in need.

• We have multiple teachers selected to serve as AP graders for CollegeBoard.

• HHS Pride Time Groups wrote 1,250 letters to Macy’s Make A Wish Foundation, donated 100+ coats and winter items, wrote 300+ letters of support to current military personnel, colored 1,500 jeans squares for Joshua’s Hands, and much more.

Ron Petrella Athletic Director

Ryan Rogers

Assistant Athletic Director

PRIDE ATHLETICS

Senior Perspective

ZACK PERHACH CLASS OF 2015

Dr. Kevin Vigil, Guitar Mr. George Herrmann, Band

Ms. Heather Vereb, Choir Ms. Montana Brown, Theatre Arts

PRIDE PERFORMING ARTS

Senior Perspective

GOLDA HOUNDOH CLASS OF 2015

Ms. Suzanne Eicholtz Director of School Counseling

PRIDE ACADEMICS

SCHOOL COUNSELING

DEPARTMENT

COUNSELORS Ms. Meagen Zawistowski, A-D

Ms. Kathy Orchant, E-K

Ms. Kim-marie Brown, L-Re

Mr. Bruce Holland, Rh-Z

CAREER CENTER SPECIALIST Ms. Lolita Smart

PARENT LIAISON Ms. Neldy Negron

Director of School Counseling

Ms. Suzanne Eicholtz

LCPS HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMAS Standard Diploma

Courses

• English: 4 – Eng 9, Eng 10, Eng 11, Eng 12

• Math: 3 – Algebra 1 and above

• Science: 3 – At least 2 different science disciplines

• History & Social Science: 3 – WH1 or WH2, US Va Hist, Gov’t

• Health and PE: 2

• World Language, Fine Arts, Career & Tech Ed : 2

• Econ and Personal Finance: 1

• Electives: 4 – 2 must be sequential

TOTAL: 22

Advanced Studies Diploma Courses

• English: 4 – Eng 9, Eng 10, Eng 11, Eng 12

• Math: 4 – Must reach Alg 2 or above

• Science: 4 – At least 3 different science disciplines

• History & Social Science: 4 – WH1, WH2, US Va Hist, Gov’t

• Health and PE: 2

• World Language: 3 – 3 years of 1 language, or 2 years of 1 language + 2

of another language

• Fine Arts or Career and Tech Ed: 1

• Econ and Personal Finance: 1

• Electives: 3

TOTAL: 26

LCPS HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMAS

Standard Diploma SOLs

• English: 2 – Both with English 11

• Math: 1 – Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2

• Science: 1 – Earth Sci, Bio, Chem

• History & Social Science: 1 – WH1, WH2, US Va Hist

• Student Selected: 1

TOTAL: 6

Advanced Studies Diploma SOLs

• English: 2 – Both with English 11

• Math: 2 – Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2

• Science: 2 – Earth Sci, Bio, Chem

• History & Social Science: 2 – WH1, WH2, US Va Hist

• Student Selected: 1

TOTAL: 9

LCPS HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMAS

Standard Diploma

• Online Experience: – Within Economics/Personal Finance

or AP Economics

• Career and Technical Education Credential: – ‘W!SE Certification’ taken in

Economics/Personal Finance

– Additional Career & Tech Credential Exams Accepted

Advanced Studies Diploma

• Online Experience: – Within Economics/Personal Finance

or AP Economics

• Career and Technical Education Credential: – Not required.

COURSE SELECTION

SAMPLE FRESHMAN SCHEDULE

• English 9

• Math (Algebra 1, Geometry, Functions, Algebra 2, or Algebra 2/Trig)

• Earth Science or Biology Honors

• World History/Geography to 1500 (WH1)

• Health PE 9

• (World Language)

• Elective

• Study Hall

• (Pride Time: 20 minutes every Weds.)

ENGLISH 9

• Focus:

– Reading, Writing, Research, Vocab

– SOL Competencies

– Basic Writing Skills Reinforced

• GPA Bump: None

• Homework:

– About 30 minutes per class.

• Normal Final Exam

• Focus: – Reading, Writing, Research, Vocab

– SOL Competencies

– Mastery of basic writing skills is assumed (Students advance to complex writing skills)

– Increased rigor & faster pace

– More independent learning

• GPA Bump: 0.5

• Homework: – About 1-1.5 hours per class.

• Normal Final Exam

• Year-long Honors Common Assessment Portfolio (which requires out-of-class independent research and partially impacts final exam scores)

ACADEMIC HONORS

EARTH SCIENCE

• Will explore historical development of science concepts

• Will conduct two, in-class science research projects that will support learning science content (SOL and beyond)

• Will examine current STEM issues impacting society and examine the science content and process to validate

• Approximately 30 minutes of homework per block.

• Will conduct in-class science research projects related to class that will support learning science content (SOL and beyond) – Early projects will be largely guided by teacher – Later projects will allow students and teacher to

work as a team

• Each student will use developed skills in scientific process to conduct an independent science investigation in small groups. Project will investigate questions developed by the class and specifically related to class concepts.

• Research skills taught specifically in Earth Science Research are: Finding reliable data, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and supporting conclusions with solid evidence from the data. Students will be expected to have these skills entering Research Biology

• Approximately 60 minutes of homework per block.

• GPA bump of 0.5

ACADEMIC RESEARCH (HONORS)

BIOLOGY

• Student Expectations: – Use of excel

– Ability to read and understand scientific literature

– Create proper MLA citations

– Analyze data – draw conclusions and find trends

• Time Commitment: – When research assignments are in progress, students are expected to spend 1-1.5 hours on Biology each night.

– Very little class time is used to actively research and complete assignments; work is to be completed outside of class time.

• Number of Assignments: – Various small assignments: MLA practice, reading research, finding journal articles, interpreting data

– 2 “smaller” research assignments – based on class labs

– 1 “larger” symposium project – student design lab and complete lab in class

• Grade Impacts for Research Component (based on 2014-2015 school year): – Small percentage of Q1/Q2

– 1/5-1/4 of Q3 grade

– 1/3 of Q4 grade

• GPA Bump: 0.5

RESEARCH (HONORS)

WORLD HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY TO 1500 (WH1)

• Course is intended to explicitly prepare students for AP World History course in 10th grade

• On average 50-60 minutes of homework between class blocks

• Homework designed to reinforce concepts taught in class

• 1-2 essays per quarter

• Attention paid to preparing students for DBQ, Compare and Change Over Time Essays

• Primary Source analysis may involve collection of 4 or more documents with a writing prompt

• Text readings on a nightly basis

• Reading of 1 historically based novels per semester

• Socratic Seminars 1 per quarter

• Course is considered honors level and carries a .5 bump on GPA

• Course is intended to build student knowledge and skill toward more rigorous courses in the future

• On average 25-30 minutes of homework between class blocks

• Homework designed to reinforce concepts taught in class

• 1-2 essays per semester. Short Answer responses on each test

• Primary Source analysis may involve a collection of 1-3 documents with a writing prompt

• Text readings on a weekly basis

• In class structured discussions

ACADEMIC PRE-AP(HONORS)

POST-GEOMETRY ALGEBRA OPTIONS (AFTER ALGEBRA 1 IS GEOMETRY)

• Those needing to refresh Algebra 1 skills before moving on to Algebra 2 from Geometry.

• Mid-way option

• Slower pace of information

• Students who struggled in Algebra 1 in the class and/or on the SOL.

• Approximately 30 minutes of homework per class.

• Strong Algebra 1 skills. Successful in Algebra 1 and passed Geometry.

• Algebra 2 curriculum is spread over the entire year.

• Approximately 30 minutes of homework per class.

FUNCTIONS ALGEBRA 2 ALGEBRA 2/TRIG

• Very strong Algebra 1 skills. • Less calculator use. • Faster Pace. Algebra 2 is

covered in three quarters. 4th quarter is Trig.

• Students expected to infer

information and make connections on their own.

• Approximately 45 minutes of homework per class.

• GPA bump: 0.5

FRESHMEN ELECTIVES

• Journalism

• Creative Writing (0.5)

• 21st Century Lit (0.5 or 1)

• Materials & Processes (Tech Ed 1)

• Technology Foundations (Pre-Engineer)

• Technical Drawing & Design (CAD 1)

• Computer Info Systems

• Intro to Business & Marketing

• Early Childhood Education 1

• Independent Living (0.5)

• Gourmet Foods (0.5)

• Choices (0.5)

• Human Development (0.5)

• Housing & Interior Design (0.5)

• Leadership Development (0.5)

• Art 1

• Technical Theatre 1

• Theatre Arts 1

• Musical Theatre – Audition

• Instrumental Methods (Percussion)

• Performance Ensemble 1 & 2

• Jazz Ensemble -Audition

• Beg, Int, Adv, Artist Orchestra

• Mixed Chorus (no audition), Men’s Chorus (no audition), Advanced Chorus, Women’s Chorus

• Beg, Int, Artist Guitar

• Music Theory

• Music Appreciation

• Languages: Russian, American Sign Language, Spanish, Spanish for Fluent Speakers, German, Latin, French

CLASS CHOICE • Consider:

– Interest – Independent Work Ethic/Internal Motivation – Area of Strength – Teacher Recommendation – Time Available for Study – Balance of Overall Courseload

• No Tracking

• Work Through the Rigor: – Drop Add Form in Early June – All Changes to Course Requests due June 19th

– No Elective Changes after that point – Any Level Change Requests during the year would follow HHS course change

request procedure

• GPA: Weight and Impact (Honors & Dual Enrolled = 0.5, AP = 1.0)

• Expunging High School Grades Received in Middle School

STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS • Use your agenda

• Do your homework on the same day it is assigned

• Check teacher’s webpage & Vision page

• Ask questions (in class or email)

• Check Clarity/Phoenix for grades

• Communicate with your teacher

• Get involved, maintain a balance

• Set goals

• Surround yourself with those who are also working toward their goals

ACADEMIC RESOURCES

• Math Lab

• Reading Writing Center

• Study Hall Subject Teacher Availability

• Teacher Support: Webpage/Vision Resources, Email Communication, Teacher Availability by Appointment

• 21st Century Lit (English support elective)

• Study Groups: Honors and AP Especially

• Student-Parent-Teacher Conference with Counselor

STRATEGIES FOR 9TH-GRADE-PARENT SUCCESS

• Check Clarity/Phoenix with your student – Look for trends if struggling: homework vs exams

• Encourage your student to communicate with their teacher – Encourage them to ask questions if they do not understand

– Encourage them to use their resources during school

• Encourage them to get involved

• Monitor the transition

• Reach out to their school counselor if you are concerned about their transition socially, emotionally, or academically

• Remember, development and maturation happen at different rates…hang in there.

LOOKING FORWARD…

COLLEGE AND CAREER RESOURCES Counseling Department Workshops

• Senior College Application Night (September)

• NOVA Night (September)

• Financial Aid Night (December)

• Super Saturdays (January/February)

• Apprenticeship Night (April)

• College 101 (Underclassmen) (April)

• Utilize the Career Center

Naviance

• Interest Inventories

• Career Inventories

• Career Information

• GPA and Test Scores

• Search for Colleges to Match Interests and Admissions Profile

• Search for Scholarships

• Use Resources in Document Library

• Receive Updates from HHS on Volunteer, Scholarship, Academic Enrichment & Job Opportunities

• Monroe Shadowing Day (10th & 11th)

• Job for a Day (11th)

• LCPS College and Career Fair (Last Sunday in September @ SBHS)

LCPS Resources

School Day Field Trip

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