Week 5

Week 5

It was a tough week for the Polar Bears and Lady Polar Bears. The Polar Bears suffered losses to very tough Meridian junior high and high school football teams on Thursday and Friday. Injuries affected the varsity with the loss of our two senior linemen, but the Bears gave their best effort to make up for their absence on the line. The boys are working hard in practice to get ready for Cross Roads on Friday.

The Lady Bears lost to Milford, on Tuesday in three games and to Avalon, on Saturday morning, in four close games. We are gearing up for a better week with Junior High games in Cayuga and High School games in Kerens on Tuesday and back home on Sat. against Cross Roads.

Activities for this week:

Monday - Junior High Volleyball Game @ Cayuga - 5:00pm

Tuesday - Varsity Volleyball Game @ Kerens - 5:00 pm JV & V

District FFA Meeting @ Midway H.S. 6:30 pm

Wednesday - Fall School Portraits

Thursday - Junior High Football vs. Cross Roads (Here) beginning at 6:00 p.m.

Jostens meets with Juniors @ 1:00 pm

Friday - Varsity Football @ Cross Roads 7:30pm

Saturday - JV & Varsity Volleyball vs Crossroads (Here) at 10:00am

Remember that this is the fifth week of the the 1st Six Week Period. If you are in danger of failing a class, this is the week to buckle down to raise your grades. Your teachers are here to help you, but you have to make your best effort as well.

Week At A Glance

Monday - Begin "Beowulf" Burton Raffel Introdution to "Beowulf" pg 31 & 32 See it Video DVD- Complete Listening & Viewing Worksheets during DVD presentation

Tuesday - Vocab Warm-up list and exercises/Builder, pg 33, 34 and 39

Wednesday - Read children's version of "Beowulf" for understanding out loud.

Thursday - Read Textbook version together- Look at different translations.

Friday - Continue reading Beowulf together. Discuss essay project, and poster project.


Vickery's Vit and Visdom:

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
~Oscar Wilde~

" The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." ~Mahtma Gandhi~

One of the best pieces of advice that I ever received was that when someone hurts your feelings, then you have chosen to allow that person to affect your self esteem. You have chosen to be hurt. Yes, the person was probably insensitive or intentionally hurtful, but you chose to let it get to you. The hardest thing to do is to let ugly things that people say to hurt us, roll off of our back. This is where forgiveness comes into play. If you immediately forgive the person for the hurtful comment, then you will not give them the satisfaction of hurting you. Your self esteem and self image should not be formed by other people. You are in complete control of your emotions and feelings. You are in complete control of your self image. You are in complete control of your desire to retaliate. You are in complete control of of your ability to forgive. When you allow your feelings to be hurt, you give up your control of your own emotions to someone else.