Save your plastic bottles!

One of our NEHS members, Jennie Kim, is collecting plastic bottles to raise money for Relay for Life. I am helping her out and placing a bag in my room to collect bottles. These can be any kind of plastic drinking bottle...Coke, water, tea, etc. Please help us out by saving all your plastic bottles and drop them off in my room. For every 5 bottles you drop off, you will receive one point! Jennie's goal is 1,000 bottles (for a $50 donation to Relay for Life) and I am sure we can raise even more than that! Please let Jennie know if you have any questions, or email me and I can ask her your question. Thanks!

SCRAP Project

At yesterday's meeting we discussed the community service project, SCRAP. NEHS has adopted 15 kids to sponsor with school supplies. All supplies are due to Mrs. Lusher's room (T-10) by Feb. 10th. Members will receive one point per item they bring. Please seen the flyer below for more information!

Meeting Tomorrow!

Just a last minute reminder of our meeting tomorrow! 2:20pm in T-10!

Hamlet

Tomorrow after school I will be showing "Hamlet" in my room at 2:30pm. This is mainly for the AP Lit kids, but if you are in AP Lang or one day planning on being in an AP English class this would benefit you. This is not an official NEHS "Movie Day", but you can still get your movie points if you would like to join us. I will be bringing popcorn and the movie will be over by 4:45pm.

OPERATION SCRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey NEHS!!!
Our school and the Gwinnett community is participating in an exciting and
meaningful event this year!!
It's called OPERATION SCRAP- helping Iraqi school children get their
necessary school supplies.
The terrorists in Samarra, Iraq have destroyed many schools, and the
U.S. army there has been building back some.
But the children do not have school supplies to work with.
So, one of the Lieutenant officers native of Gwinnettt County asked
us to help out.
North Gwinnett High School decided to adopt 1000 kids to support,
and it asks ALL organizations and clubs to adopt children.

Each child needs:

-4 pencils
-2 pens
-1 pack of erasers
-1 notebook
- 1 pack of lined paper

This is not much~ We can definitely support a lot of kids!

I will give you guys more info. on our Jan 26th mtg.
But this will be our big NEHS community service project,
so look out for OPERATION SCRAP~~~

Thanks,

Seo Kim

Happy 3 day weekend and MLK Day!

I hope everyone has a wonderful, WARM 3 day weekend! The next NEHS meeting is on Monday, Jan. 26th. Also, feel free to blog or leave comments as you read our posts. On Tuesday across the school we will be watching the Inauguration in our 5th period classes. To get info ahead of time and know what's going on, please check out any of the following websites:

http://www.inauguration.dc.gov/index.asp
http://inaugural.senate.gov/
http://dc.about.com/od/specialevents/a/Inauguration.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/14/explainer.inauguration/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27721638/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/executivebranch/index.html

Love is in the air!

Attention all of you who may not have earned your 100 points last semester, or anyone who wants to get a jump start earning points for this semester:

We will be having a Valentine's Day Poetry Jam on February 13th in the Commons area at 7:00pm. The theme is "Love" (duh!) and we will begin planning this event after our meeting on Monday, Jan. 26th. There are many ways to earn points during the Poetry Jam, however, you must be a part of the planning committee to earn the big points. So, if you are interested please stay after our next meeting for more info!

These are a samplings of the point opportunities available for the Poetry Jam:

• Attend and buy a ticket (10 pts.)
• Recite poetry ( 5 pts. per poem)
• Bring a baked good to sell (5 pts. per item)
• Bring used books to sell (1 pt. per book)
• Be a member of the Poetry Jam comittee (up to 20 pts.)

I look forward to seeing EVERYONE participating in this activity!