An admissions counselor from New River Community and Technical College will be here on February 12th to speak with students about admissions, scholarships, college life and more. Please stop by the table and welcome them to JMHS!
In support of Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month Stevie Loudermilk, with the Family Refuge Center visited with students at JMHS on Tuesday, February 12th to speak with them about Teen Dating Violence. Students were asked to share what healthy relationships look like to them and then they were provided with facts and statistics about entering into healthy relationships Congratulations to James Monroe Senior Brady Chinault for signing his national letter of intent to play football at Concord University!
Dr. Sudhakar R. Jamkhandi, Coordinator of International Initiatives and Professor of English and Dr. John Paul Agaba, Fulbright Scholar and visiting Professor at The College of Saint Rose, from Uganda spoke on February 11th, 2019 to James Monroe High School juniors and seniors. Dr. Agaba's spoke on Uganda regions and cultural and dialect that reflect those regions. Several laughs were had at similarities between dance customs between Uganda and US cultures. This guest lecture was made possible by the West Virginia Humanities Council.
Pictured above: Ben Neal, Music Instructor JMHS, Meagan Jones, School Counselor, JMHS, Dr. John Paul Agaba, Dr. Sudhakar Jamkhandi, Tracy Dransfield, School Counselor, JMHS. Parents of highly motivated and high achieving juniors: This message is to alert you to the possibility of your high school juniors attending the Governor's Honors Academy at Marshall University, June 30-July 20, 2019. Students who have attended in the past, say that it is the best three weeks of their lives, and it is free to WV students. For more information on the event you may visit the website at www.govschools.wv.gov.
The JMHS Coburn Chapter of the National Honor Society will induct new members in to the prestigious organization on Friday, February 8th at 1:00pm. Students are inducted based on character, leadership, scholarship (3.72 GPA) and service. Family and friends were invited to share in this special occasion. A short reception will be held at JMHS following the ceremony. For over 30 years, the West Virginia Young Writers Contest has celebrated student writing in the state. The YWC grows out of a deep commitment to writing in all subjects, and to the publishing, displaying, and celebrating of student writing.
Contest GuidelinesTeachers and administrators in each county will encourage students to submit writing for judging, first at the school, and then the county level. Submissions may be on any topic and in any prose genre: fiction, nonfiction, narrative, memoir, or essay. Poetry is not eligible for submission and submissions must be free of graphics. Entries should be the sole creation of the student and composed during the current school year. The entry should be drafted in a manner which best supports the use of process writing and the concept of the writer’s workshop. Home-schooled students and students in private schools may participate, subject to the guidelines and supervision by the county in which they reside. YWC County Coordinators are encouraged to share contest information with private schools and home school associations. Winning entries from private schools and from home-schooled students must be judged at the county level. Leaders from the Central West Virginia Writing Project (CWVWP) at Marshall University will judge entries on the following criteria: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions. Entries submitted for state competition at categories below must not exceed word length limits: Grade 1-2 300 words Grade 3-4 500 words Grade 5-6 700 words Grade 7-8 700 words Grade 9-10 1,000 words Grade 11-12 1,200 words Schools need to submit entries to County Coordinators by February 4, 2019. For more information, contact Monroe County coordinator, Christine Dunlap at [email protected] or visit https://www.marshall.edu/cwvwp/young-writers/contest/. |
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