Back-to-School High School

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READY, SET,H I G HSCHOOL!

• GRADES 9-12
• High School Edition
• Get Ready to Get Educated about High School and
  High School Supply Essentials

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Middle School V. High School

• There is a LOT more work in high school than
  there is in middle school.
• Middle School schedules are usually fixed,
  whereas High School schedules grant each student
  the personal freedom to choose whichever
  electives he/she fancies
• In Middle School, students usually adjust to only
  three to four new teachers, whereas in High
  School, students must learn to juggle their
  relationships with eight to nine.
• Athletics in Middle School pale to athletics in
  High School
• Athletics in High School provide gateways to
  school spirit and socialization amongst students
• Studies show that students who participate in
  High School athletic programs are less likely to
  drop out of school.
• Psychologically, transitioning from eighth grade,
  the oldest grade (aka, the coolest) in Junior
  High, to ninth grade, the youngest grade in High
  School, can be demoralizing
• Often, high school is much larger in size
  compared to middle school
• In many cases, a number of middle schools are
  piled into a single high school
• This also means that high schools offer larger
  class sizes

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High School is T O U G H !

• Peer Pressure Is Real Clothes, eating, cheating,
  drug and alcohol abuse, etc. will be new
  challenges your high schooler will most likely
  encounter during High School
• Transitioning into High School means buckling
  down! More personal responsibility is places on
  High Schoolers, which means teachers offer less
  hand holding, or personal and individual
  attention to each student
• The impersonal nature of the high school
  classroom and emphasis on self-motivation can
  present a difficult transition for many students.
  
• DID YOU KNOW that more students flunk ninth grade
  than any other grade?
• Make sure your high schooler stays organized,
  keeping stress at bay!

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On a Positive Note

• While bullying is a serious fear of many eighth
  graders entering high school, studies have proven
  that there is less bullying in high school than
  in middle school
• Seniors are more likely to ignore the freshman
  class than they are to participate in Freshman
  Friday

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Academic Planner

• It is of UTMOST importance that your adolescent
  maintain his/her academic planner academic
  planners teach students time management skills
  that will help him/her out when he/she enters
  high school AND college.

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Three to Five Star Notebook

• Each subject should be reserved for a specific
  class your high schooler is taking.
• Encourage diligent note taking
• Students who take good notes do a better job at
  listening during class
• Good notes give students a better starting point
  for studying
• Encourage your high schooler to read over the
  notes he/she took everyday before class

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Color Ball Pens Pens and Highlighters

• Color-coding, hi-lighting, and underlining are
  important habits for your high schooler to
  acquire when reading important school-related
  material
• -Benefits of color-coding
• -Improves study morale
• -Studies show that students who study color
  coded material score higher than students who
  study conventional black and white formats
• -Color coded material means fewer eye fixations,
  which means that studying becomes a much more
  fluid and enjoyable process
• -So encourage your kids to hi-light and color
  code their notes!

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Pocket Folders

• To transport all of your high schoolers
  homework, creative writing brilliance, and
  everything in between!
• Its useful to color code your adolescents
  pocket folders according to subject
• For instance
• Green Earth Science Yellow Trigonometry Etc.

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Ti-83 Calculator

• A graphing calculator is a necessity for students
  who will engage in more serious math subjects
  like algebra and trigonometry.
• Dont let your high schooler convince you that
  the graphing calculator apps on his/her smart
  phone are acceptable. Most teachers find the
  usage of cell phones absolutely unacceptable and
  insist upon graphing calculators instead.

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Graph Paper and Copy Paper

• High schoolers will be asked to draw graphs on
  graph paper and hand it as homework. Graph paper
  is a necessity!
• Loose-leaf paper is essential to handing in
  writing assignments too! If your child doesnt
  want to rip pages of his/her notebooks, extra
  loose leaf paper will always come in handy

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Flash Drive

• Flash drives are a crucial item for your
  adolescent to own. Flash drives enable students
  to work on the same project both at home and at
  High School.
• While online software systems, like Dropbox,
  provide services that are similar to that of a
  flash drive, flash drives provide extra assurance
  to your high schooler, since it guarantees that
  all of his/her assignments will be in on time.

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A Sturdy Backpack
In the United States, 92 of students carry
backpacks that hold 10-22 of their body weight

• Pick a backpack that has
• Chest and/or hip straps and a padded back, to
  decrease stress on the back and enhance comfort
• Has reflective material on the back, so that it
  can be seen at night
• Has many individual pockets, to distribute weight
  evenly

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Never Forget 2 Pencils Big Pink Erasers!

• Standardized testing usually requires the use of
  a 2 pencil. Do NOT have your high schooler be
  without one!

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Hand Sanitizer

• Nearly 22 million days of school are missed
  annually due to the common cold
• A case control study of 6,080 schools reported
  that those who enforced classroom-dispensed
  instant hand sanitizer at specific times
  throughout the day experienced 20 fewer absences
  due to illness

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A Reusable Water Bottle

• Keep our pre-teens loving the planet! Especially
  during hot months, a reusable water bottle makes
  all the difference. Keep these facts in mind
• In response to public concern, manufacturers have
  developed BPA-free reusable water bottles.
• When you use a reusable water bottle, you help
  reduce the production of bottled beverages and
  therefore, the landfill and recycling burden of
  the bottles. 
• Buying and using a reusable water instead of
  bottled water saves you money over the long term.
  
• In fact, Greeniacs.com reports that bottled water
  can cost up to 10,000 times as much per gallon as
  tap water.

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SOURCES

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  king-reveals-why-color-coding-study-materials-is-a
  -good-idea/
• http//www.edudemic.com/2011/10/heavy-backpacks/
• http//tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/10-differences
  -middle-high-school.htm