KIPP
Y EAR 2, I SSUE 1
Thank you to our students, families, and friends that came out to celebrate our Second Annual Homecoming. Go Bull Dogs!
N OTE FROM M S . W EBB
Hello! Welcome to the
first edition of our 2010-11
monthly newsletter. We are
excited to share with you the
great events and happenings
each month, so that you have
all the information needed to
support your child in our
school. You will hear from
teachers about their classes,
learn about upcoming events,
and find out how you can get
involved in our school. As
always, if there are issues and
events that you would like to
read more about, please let us
know. We want this newslet-
ter to work for you!
In this packet, you will also
find your child’s report card.
As we start the year, it is vital
for you to stay on top of your
child’s grades and continue to
push them to seek the support
they need to be successful in
their classes. As we have
mentioned before, we have
tutoring available before
school, during lunch, and after
-school. Additionally, many of
our teachers are here each
Saturday providing enrich-
ment work and extra help.
Since this is the end of the
first quarter, there is still
plenty of time for our kids
to improve their grades, get
extra help, and make better
choices inside and outside of
class to end the year with
the best results possible.
Please reach out to us if you
want more information.
Secondly, it is that time
of year again—time to plan
for our end of the year
trips! As you know, this
year students will have the
opportunity to apply to 9th
and 10th grade trips. Our
9th graders will be going to
Puerto Rico. We are cur-
rently working with our
sophomores to determine
where we will go for the
end of the year trip.
Applications will go out to
students in the spring—but
it is important to know now
that acceptances will be
determined based on
grades, behavior,
NYC
KIPP NYC C OLLEGE P REP N EWSLETTER
IN N EWSLETTER ...
THIS
attendance, teacher recom- Note from Ms. Webb
mendations and the applica- November and December Calendars
tions. We are thrilled to be Scholar Shout-Outs
able to offer these opportu- KIPP Online
nities and look forward to In the Classroom
sharing more with you as Counselors Corner
the trips get closer. KIPP Block
One of most important From the Field
upcoming events is the fina-
lization of our permanent
hesitate to ask your child’s
space. As you know, we
advisor or myself. We look
have spent the past four
forward to continuing this
years working with the
exciting and positive year!
DOE to find a H.S. building
Thank you for your continued
that meets the needs of our
faith and
kids. We have spent many
support.
hours in meetings working
out the details and are still Ms. Natalie Webb
working to determine both Principal
our space for next year and 917.687.0052
the finalization of our per-
manent space. As always, I
will let you know as soon as
we have any updates. Please
feel free to reach out to me
or Mr. Levin with questions
and concerns.
If you have further
questions about space, our
end of the year trips, or our
school, please do not
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N OVEMBER
N OVEMBER 2010 S CHEDULE OF E VENTS
November 17: Report Card Night
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Students dismissed at 12
1 2 3 4 5 6 November 19: Rewards Trip for Q1
8 9 10 11 12 13 Award Winters
November 20: Thanksgiving Dinner
15 16 17 Report 18 19 Q1 20 Thanksgiv-
Card Night Rewards Trip ing Dinner November 22 - 26: Thanksgiving
Break. NO SCHOOL
22 23 24 25 26 27 November 29: School resumes
November 30: Fall Play, 3:30 p.m.
THANKSGIVING BREAK—NO SCHOOL
for students
29 30 Fall Play
for students November 29 - December 2: No
KIPP Block. Students dismissed at
3 (3:40 on Wednesday). Only
No KIPP Block (basketball, volleyball only)
students trying out for basketball or
practicing for girls volleyball will stay
late.

D ECEMBER

D ECEMBER 2010 S CHEDULE OF E VENTS

December 1: Fall Play, 5:30 p.m. for
students, families, and friends
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat December 2: Audition for Dance KIPP
1 Fall Play, 2 Audition for 3 4 School Open Block
5:30 Dance KIPP Block (optional)
December 4: School open (optional)
No KIPP Block (basketball, volleyball only) December 6: Winter KIPP Block begins
6 7 8 9 10 11 Saturday
Winter Add/Drop School
December 10: Add/Drop day for Winter
KIPP Block for Winter (mandatory KIPP Block
begins KIPP Block only for stu-
December 11: Saturday school
dents in winter
(mandatory only for students in the holi-
show)
day show)
13 14 15 16 17 18
Progress Reports December 16: Progress reports sent
Second Newsletter home
Holiday Show
December 16: Issue 2 of newsletter
20 21 22 23 Early 24 25 December 16: Holiday Show
dismissal at 1:15
December 23: Early dismissal at 1:15
SCHOOL CLOSED
27 28 29 30 31 1 December 24: School closed
December 24 - 31: Winter Break. NO
WINTER BREAK—NO SCHOOL SCHOOL
Y EAR 2, I SSUE 1
S CHOLAR S HOUT -O UTS
From Mr. Routhier:
Shout-out to Tony
Turner for keeping his
eyes on the prize in AP
World History. Not an
easy class, and you’ve
figured out how to have
success.
Shout-out to Pamela
Negrin, Sabrina
Sultana, Tracy Bonsu,
Lofatou Paye, and
Raquel Warner for their
consistent, thorough, and
interesting work in global
history.
Shout-out to Aslyn
Contreras and Briana
McCall for working on
their essay-writing skills
this fall in global history.
Shout-out to Harold
Mercedes for the positive
energy and grit in history
class.
From Ms. Wondwossen:
Shout-out to Pamela
Munoz—Pamela wrote
an amazing personal essay
that every student and
teacher should read! She
has grit—and will be un-
stoppable.
Shout-out to Devella
Freeman—Devella has
come such a long way
since the beginning of the
year. I’m very proud of
you.
Shout-out to David
Olea—David is such a
kind and talented student.
He works hard and is re-
spectful of everyone
around him. That and his
sense of humor make him
a pleasure to teach. Keep it
up!
From Mr. Imwold:
Huge shout-out to Leah
Collazo for the immense
amount of progress that you
have made not only with your
Spanish but with the
confidence with which you
attack the language. I am ex-
tremely proud of you!
Shout-out to Stephanie
Jurado for the best essay
that I have ever seen!
Shout-out to Cleirys Perez
for your never-give-up
attitude. Keep working, you
will get there!
Shout-out to Marilyn
Garcia for your curiosity and
drive in Native Spanish. Your
work ethic will take you far!
Shout-out to David Olea
and Jhessett Estrella for
your focus and positivity in
class every day!
Shout-out to Alejandro
Rosario, Sharlyne Marte,
and Georely Germosen for
your self-advocacy. Watching
you mature and become more
independent is really an awe-
some thing. Thanks for letting
me be part of the process.
Shout-out to Abdul Diallo
for setting a positive tone in
cross-country. You have a
special talent, kiddo, and
your positivity and humility
combined with your talent
will help you run farther than
your feet alone could take
you.
P AGE 3
From Ms. Greendyke: From Ms. DeSario:
Shout-out to Deshai Dykes Shout-out to Rachel
for the enthusiasm and energy Hutchinson for all your
you bring to class each day! feedback on this newsletter. I
¡Gracias! was really impressed by your
suggestions—you really
Shout-out to Tianna
helped make this newsletter
Herrera for asking great
great.
questions. Your curiosity and
attention to detail are Shout-out to Cheryl
awesome! Liburd for helping me with
my own school work. It has
Shout-out to Atelia Deaza been a pleasure to work with
and Olvis Peralta for being
you!
our reigning princesa y
From Ms. Niewald:
príncipe del pretérito. Your
Shout-out to Destinee
hard work shows!
Outlaw for getting the only
Shout-out to Natasha
A in the school on the Unit 2
Solorzano and Brian
Hybrid exam!
Peguero for working hard
Shout-out to Ammenab
and asking great questions.
Bennerson for getting a
Shout-out to Joytza Diaz 100% on the Unit 2 Biology
for your enthusiasm, focus,
exam!
and drive every day in class.
You are doing great!
Shout-out to Marquis
Brunson for always helping
me out in the mornings and
helping me begin the day
with a positive attitude.
From Mrs. Kratz:
Shout-out to Aslyn
Contreras. You have been
doing so well this quarter—I
love to see your spirit shine!
From Ms. Woods:
Yael Bermudez is doing
great work in global history.
He is consistently on task
and ready to answer any
question with well thought
out complete answers. Yael
is a pleasure to teach on a
daily basis. We hope you can join us on
December 1 at 5:30 for our
performance of
An Evening of Ives.
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In The Classroom...
Students must complete
2400 minutes of labs in
science class this year.
W ITH M R . R OUTHIER , 10 TH G RADE G LOBAL H ISTORY
“Learning about the
Enlightenment makes me
feel more enlightened
every day.”
- Shirley Acevedo,
Class of 2017
W ITH M R . L EVENTHAL , C HEMISTRY
Students in chemistry
have been working
hard to explain matter
and the atoms that
make it up. We had
our first hands-on la-
boratories and we are
In his classic novel, “A Tale
of Two Cities,” Charles
Dickens describes how the
late 18th century was both
“the best of times and the
worst of times.” And so it is
that in 10th grade global
history, we are examining
how Dickens’ time period
began the modern era while
working towards writing
full-length lab reports and
having more time in lab to
watch reactions occur. In
class, students are pushed
to take notes and keep
themselves organized, a
also leaving an ambiguous
legacy. Old institutions
such as absolute monarchy
and a powerful church
crumbled, while
government based on life,
liberty, and protection of
rights prevailed. In an
attempt to fully grasp
these ideas, some students
debated whether
challenge that many of them
are rising to as they keep up
with the difficult vocabulary
and strange conceptual ideas
about the ways our world
works from a perspective of
its smallest parts.
Napoleon Bonaparte of
France furthered or be-
trayed his nation’s
Revolution. Meanwhile,
others are examining the
writings of Enlightenment
philosophers such as John
Locke and Voltaire. It’s an
exciting time in our course.

W ITH M S . W ONDWOSSEN , S PEECH AND C OMPOSITION

Ms. Osborne took her journalism students on a
field trip to Harper Collins to learn one of their
new books.
After writing and sharing powerful
personal essays with their class, stu-
dents in Speech and Comp have re-
cently moved on to their current
events unit. In this unit, students
recently completed a scrapbook pro-
ject in which they found 12 articles of
interest and wrote summaries and
reflections on each article. We have
now moved on to studying the Millen-
nium Development Goals that the
United Nations has set to be reached
by 2015. Over the next few weeks,
students will work in groups to identi-
fy and reflect on current events
articles that relate to these goals
(which include stopping the spread
of HIV/AIDS, environmental sus-
tainability and reducing hunger
worldwide, among others). At the
end of the unit, each student will
have written a short paper on the
articles that they found. As a group,
they will produce a PowerPoint
presentation which they will have to
present to their whole class. When
we finish that, we are off to our De-
bate/Persuasion unit!
Y EAR 2, I SSUE 1 P AGE 5

W ITH M S . P AUL , H EALTH

Hello families! I am very excit-
ed to be joining KIPP NYC
College Prep as the new health
teacher this semester. As I
work through my teacher edu-
cation program at Teachers
College, Columbia University,
I am also working hard to bring
dynamic learning opportunities
about your children's health
into the classroom. The topics
in health are full of important
life skills and information
essential to making good deci-
sions in today's world; I am
proud to be able to share
those learning opportunities
with your students. If you
would like to chat with me, I
am available by phone at
917.858.1578 and by e-mail
at hpaul@kippnyc.org. I
look forward to meeting you
all over the course of the
year!

M S . J ANELLE , 9 TH G RADE E NGLISH

My name is Ms. Janelle,
one of the 9th grade ELA
teachers. It is a pleasure to
have your kids in my class-
room, with their great
personalities, creativity,
and great discussion of
text. The students are
practicing how to write
the “perfect paragraph”
using topic sentences,
supporting details,
quotes, analysis, and a
deeper reflection of the
work. I look forward to
seeing their growth over
the course of the year!
Students in the visual arts KIPP Block show off their latest mas-

C OUNSELORS C ORNER KIPP O NLINE

Mr. Chen, Ms. Isabelle, Mr. Javier, Mr.
Miller, and Ms. Rodarte make up the
counseling team. They are available to
meet students in the counseling suite
(B89) and also organize groups and pro-
grams for the school. Here is a recap of
our past events and ongoing groups.
Ongoing Lunch Groups for Students:
Girls Talk: Small groups meet with
Ms. Gilchrist from KIPP Through
College to discuss female issues.
Anger Management: Small groups
meet with Mr. Miller to discuss ways to
develop self-control.
Past events: We’ve gone virtual and want
Internet Safety Workshop for Parents to share some helpful online
October 23: Over 30 families attended with resources with you.
Mr. Javier. Information from the workshop
is available on the family documents page on KIPP NYC CP Website:
our website: www.kippnyc.org. www.kippnyc.org
Alcohol and Drug Awareness Seminar Find updated information
November 17: Part I of a series of workshops about our school (including a
for students to prevent drug and alcohol copy of this newsletter).
abuse and addiction, with a presentation
from the Deputy Director of the Phoenix Power Parent:
House. More information to come about https://
future workshops in this series. powerschool.kippnyc.org/
public/
Check your child’s grades to
stay updated on their attend-
ance and academic progress.
 KIPP B LOCK
We are excited to have our Winter KIPP
Block activities start on December 6.
Students selected their KIPP Block
preferences in advisory today and will get
their assignment the week of November 29.
This season we are offering are: basket-
ball, weight training, indoor track,
music, film, newspaper, debate, stu-
dio arts, slam poetry, martial arts,
dance, chess, yoga, and drama.
Students have the option to switch their
KIPP Block on Friday, December 10 by
completing an Add/Drop Form with Ms.
DeSario from 7:30-7:55 a.m.
Basketball Tryouts
Basketball tryouts for girls and
practice for boys will be held for the
week of November 29 - December 2.
Students must tryout if they want to
be on the team, for students that do
not make the team, they can begin a
new KIPP Block on December 6.
There will be no KIPP Block the
week of November 29 -
December 2, except for
basketball tryouts/practice and
girls volleyball practice.
Academic Support
Many teachers are available for extra
help before school at 7:30 a.m. or after
KIPP Block at 4:40 p.m. on Monday,
Tuesday, and Thursday. Students should
schedule time with their teachers for
these extra help sessions.
Lunch study hall is available to students
who want a quiet place to work on
homework and projects.
Students with low GPAs are placed on
Academic Probation and removed from
their KIPP Block activity or sports
team.

F ROM THE F IELD

This has been an exciting past few
weeks for the KIPP NYC College
Prep Athletics Department. On
Thursday, October 28th we cele-
brated the success and commitment
of our fall sports programs with our
first Pot-Luck Dinner. Thank you to
all the families who came out to
support our teams and feed our hun-
gry athletes. We look forward to
hosting Pot-Luck Dinners in the
winter and spring!

Our 2010 Fall Athletic Teams…

Upcoming Games Homecoming

Girls Volleyball Games, Dates, Locations
Nov. 20, 11:00 a.m., Bronx Prep
Nov. 22, 6:00 p.m., Democracy Prep
Dec. 4, 11:00 a.m., Bronx Prep
Dec. 8, 6:00 p.m., New Heights
Dec. 11, 11:00 a.m., Playoffs, Bronx Prep
Dec. 17, 5 p.m., Championship, Bronx
Prep
On Saturday, October 30th
the entire KIPP NYC Team
and Family came out to the
2nd Annual KIPP NYC
College Prep Homecoming
at Columbia University’s
football stadium. Our boys
soccer team also played an
exhibition game versus South
Bronx, falling 4-0.

Special thank you to our team leaders Coach Mike, Mr. Rodgers, Mr. Capellan, Mr. Chen, Ms.
Greendyke, Mr. Routhier, Coach K., Ms. Niewald, and Mr. Leventhal for an amazing season!