Guiding Students Studies---One Teenager at a time.
Ms. Weiss' Guided Study
For the next two days we will be having standardized testing in the mornings and class schedules in the afternoons. Each class (freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors) will follow a different schedule. Please refer to the link below for clarification on this schedule.
http://www.d125.org/academics/prairie_state_exams.aspx
Also, tomorrow AFTER SCHOOL 3:30-4:15pm is Ms. Weiss’ WORLD BOOK NIGHT GIVEAWAY! To learn more about the World Book Night organization please follow the link below. Ms. Weiss will be in room 6072 giving out snacks and free copies of Tina Fey’s Bossypants. There will be limited free books and snacks available so come early!
Last week, our community lost one of our students. And one of our guided classes lost one of our classmates. This is not an easy thing, and may still be impacting you. If you are feeling any sense of loss, grief or other stress consider trying some of these coping strategies:
- Talk to someone at school: Your counselor, social worker, dean, or trusted teacher
- listen to music
- writing/journaling
- reading
- watching a funny/favorite movie or tv show
- going for a run
- exercising
- watching or playing sports
- meditating
- Talking and/or spending time with friends and family
- organizing/cleaning
- playing video games
- yoga
- singing around the house
- a “do nothing” day (Ms. Weiss particularly suggests making a Do Nothing Saturday)
- painting
- knitting
- sleeping
- going out to dinner
- doing something new
- driving
- playing musical instruments
- buying music (free downloads, cd, itunes)
If you need to talk or feel at all overwhelmed, please come talk to me or one of your SST members (counselor, social worker, etc.)
-Ms. Weiss
As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.
~Anne SextonTop 12 Literary Love Quotes
- I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. ~Pablo Neruda
- If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ~A.A. Milne
- Each time you happen to me all over again. ~Edith Wharton
- Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Brontë
- What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting? ~George Eliot
- Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning
- He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book. ~Michael Ondaatje
- Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. ~Nicole Krauss
- We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that’s why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I’ll never forget a single moment of it. ~Nicholas Sparks
- Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
- I carry you with me into the world, into the smell of rain & the words that dance between people & for me, it will always be this way, walking in the light, remembering being alive together. ~Brian Andreas
- If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life. ~Oscar Wilde
by Amanda Patterson from Writers Write
While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, an officer was interrupted by a little boy about six years old. Looking up and down at his uniform, he asked, “Are you a cop?”
“Yes,” he replied and continued writing the report.
“My mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that right?”
“Yes, that’s right,” he told him.
“Well, then,” he said as he extended his foot towards the officer, “would you please tie my shoe?”Riley Freeman exists.
(Source: caput-meum-laedit, via girlwithalessonplan)
