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AMPLIFY UMA NEWSLETTER WEEK OF MARCH 22

UpGrade Media Arts Schools

March 22, 2024

Dear UpGrade Media Arts Community: 

For the week ending March 22nd, 2024, students have completed part one of Wonder by R.J. Palacio. Our MATC Downtown Campus culinary arts students have cooked their first meal, making eggs and potatoes. In academics, WVS teachers are conducting instructional coaching sessions with students to assist them in any assignments that might be challenging. In business, students are learning about how startups use colors in their logos to convey messages about their brand.

Winner of the 2014 Maine Student Book Award
Winner of the Vermont's Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
Winner of the 2015 Mark Twain Readers Award

Academics: 
In math, students are reviewing content from module six such as area of a circle, probability, and 3 dimensional models. In civics, students are learning about exchange rates and reviewing the concept of GDP for a country. In science, students are studying the different phases of matter and reviewing the properties of light. In ELA, students are reviewing the plot diagram and learning about different ways a novel can end during the resolution stage of the plot diagram.

Business and Media Integration (Mr. Thompson):   
This week, students are learning about the psychology of colors in a brand logo. Students then were assigned a color and found different logos with those colors. They explained what message each logo conveyed based on the colors they used in a presentation.

MATC Culinary Arts Course
Our UMA student chefs continued making delicious breakfast items this week.  They also learned how to use the online Blackboard to access content in their culinary arts course syllabus. Chef Jason explained the steps for completing and submitting work using this system.
 

*** Please read the very important reminders below ***  

  • Please call 833-922-2438 and press 1 to contact the main office to report an absence. Leave a message if there is no answer.  

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  • If students will not be using our rideshare option, please let us know ahead of time so that we can cancel their ride. 

  • Spring Break is March 25th - April 1st. School will resume on April 2nd.

  • Student Academic Performance and Project Day is April 19th. More details will be provided in the coming days.  Please mark your calendar!

Chef Jason teaching knife safety

Our culinary arts students learning how to scramble eggs

Kameron working on coordinate plane graphs