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8th Grade Promotion Info
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Letter to Families:
Promotion Activities:
Monday, May 23 2:40-3:00PM 8th Grade Promotion Assembly (Virtual) Tuesday, May 24 8:20-9:54AM Processional Rehearsal Wednesday, May 25 8:20-11:00AM
11:00-11:59AM
12:39-3:00PMPromotion Rehearsal
8th Grade Goodbye Assembly
8th Grade Promotion PartyThursday, May 26 Promotion Ceremony 9:00AM on Mustang Field - No Tickets Required In the event of light rain, the promotion ceremony will continue. In the event of heavy rain, the promotion ceremony may be delayed or postponed.
8th Grade Baby Photos Needed!
Upload a baby photo of your outgoing Muir 8th grader for the Goodbye Assembly (May 25th) slide show! [ Submit photo here ]
Or email your photo to catherinecelaya@burbankusd.org
All submissions are due by Monday, May 23 at 3pm.Promotion Pictures:
If you missed 8th grade promotion pictures taken on Friday, February 25th, please schedule an appointment with White Studios @ WhiteStudios.com
8th Grade Activities
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Grad Night 2022
GRAD NIGHT 2022
MAY 20TH
UNIVERSAL STUDIOSDEPARTURE FROM MUIR
- At 3:00PM on Friday, go to Mustang Field and line up to get your permission slip. You WILL NOT have time to go home and change. Please go directly from Muir Time on Friday to Mustang Field.
- Once you have your permission slip, go to a bus in the Bethany lot and follow the instructions of the bus supervisors with clipboards. You are not assigned to a bus, but you must ride the same bus to and from Universal.
- You must wear a mask on the bus both to and from Universal Studios. You do not have to wear a mask at Universal.
- You may not take a regular size backpack into Universal. You may leave your backpack on the bus. You will not have access to the 200 hall lockers when we return at 12am.
AT UNIVERSAL
- Once we arrive, your bus supervisor will read rules and regulations to you. You will be given a wristband. Put it on. Once your wristband is on and your exit the bus, you’ll be given an entry ticket.
- All students and chaperones will walk from the buses to the entry of Universal Studios together. Once inside the park you may not leave.
RETURNING TO MUIR
- At 10:45 you will meet with your bus supervisors for the end of the night check in. Once all students are checked in and accounted for, you will walk together, with your bus supervisors back to the buses. If you are not checked in by 11PM, you will be considered late and you will have your promotion party privileges revoked.
- Once on the buses, your bus supervisors will share the ETA for Muir. You can text your families and ask them to be waiting for you upon our arrival. Parents should NOT park on the school side of Kenneth as that is where the buses will be parking. Parents should park on the opposite side of Kenneth, on Bethany, Walnut, Cornell or Delaware.
- You must wear your mask on the bus ride back to Muir.
IMPORTANT INFO
- If you need help at Universal, please ask any Universal employee for assistance and they can show you to the chaperone area.
- DO NOT leave Universal Studios to go to City Walk or any other areas outside of the theme park.
- You may not leave early unless arranged in advance with Mrs. Celaya.
- Bring cash or card and a sweater or jacket.
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BHS Student Athlete Physical Clearance
Physical Clearance Flyer | Exer Physical Registration Form | BUSD Physical Form
Student-athletes must be cleared by a physician. Burbank High has partnered with Exer Urgent Care to help our student-athletes achieve physical clearance. Location, dates, and times are:
Exer Urgent Care
13303 Riverside Dr.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423Saturday May 21st: 10:00 am-5:00 pm
Tuesday May 24th: 2:00 pm-7:00 pm
Thursday May 26th: 2:00 pm-7:00 pmStudents can sign up for available time slots using the QR code on the flyer. This is also a fundraising opportunity for our athletic department. The attached documents can also be found on our school website within the "Athletics" tab, under "Athletic Clearance." Remember that students are unable participate, including tryouts, until you are physically cleared.
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BUSD High School Summer Program 2022
Burbank Unified School District
High School Summer Program 2022 @ Burbank High School
Credit Recovery (in-person), Grade Improvement (distance learning), and Initial Credit (hybrid, but no in-person)
*Subject to change*
Location: Burbank High School, 902 N. Third Ave. Burbank, CA 91502
Schedule:
Class time: 7:40 to 10:10 a.m.
Nutrition break: 10:10 to 10:25 a.m.
Class time: 10:30 to 1:00 p.m.
Week
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thur.
Fri.
Total Days
Semester 1
1
6/6
6/7
6/8
6/9
4
2
6/13
6/14
6/15
6/16
4
3
6/20
6/21
6/22
6/23
4
Semester 2
4
6/27
6/28
6/29
6/30
4
5
7/5
7/6
7/7
7/8
4
6
7/11
7/12
7/13
7/14
4
Total Days
24
Program Descriptions:
Initial Credit (hybrid) - (I want to take a class to ‘get ahead’)
A limited number of classes are offered for students who will have impacted schedules during the regular school year. Synchronous portion will take place. Registration forms are time-stamped (online) and spaces will be filled on a first come, first serve basis.
Special Programs:
Extended School Year (*in-person) (My case carrier is signing me up for classes)
Students with Extended School Year (ESY) services in their IEP will receive a separate registration form from their special education case carrier.
English Language Development (*in-person) - (I want to improve my language skills)
Students in the English Language Development (ELD) program that wish to improve their language skills will be signed up by their counselor or ELD coordinator.
*If health conditions will not allow us to be in-person this summer, the credit recovery summer program will be in the distance learning format.
Registration Dates:
Initial Credit Registration opens Monday, March 28 at 3:00 p.m. and closes Friday, May 6 at 3:00 p.m.
Initial Credit Registration Link: https://forms.gle/LR7Fr2Mn1xcBexNX7
Initial Credit Course Offerings (Hybrid: online w/some synchronous portions, but no in-person):
- Health (current 8th graders / incoming 9th graders)
- World History (current 9th graders)
- U.S. History (current 10th graders)
- Physical Education (all grades)
- ELD Initial Credit
- English 9A, 9B, 10A, 10B, 11A, and 11B (current EL students only).
Middle School Math Acceleration
- Math 8
- Algebra I
Summer School Policies:
Attendance:
The first day of summer school is mandatory. Due to semesters being three weeks long, missing one day of class time may result in a student being dropped from the summer school class whether the absence is excused or unexcused. All absences require a signed note from a parent/guardian.
Grades and Credit: Report cards will be mailed home at the conclusion of summer school. Grades are viewable on the Aeries portal. Parents will be notified if a student is failing mid-semester. Credits earned will be determined by the student’s attendance and successful completion of coursework.
Contact Info:
Counselors: Please contact your current counselor if you need assistance or have questions about registering for summer school.
Initial Credit Program Questions: TBD, Summer School TOSA
2022 Summer School For Initial Credit & Middle School Math Acceleration Form
Summer School Principal: Heather Pittman HeatherPittman@burbankusd.org (818)729-5100 Ext. 51906 District Lead: Assistant Superintendent, Educational Services: Dr. John Paramo JohnParamo@burbankusd.org
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8th Grade T-Shirt/Sweatshirt Orders
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Apply to NAF Academy
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8th Grade Taming of the Shrew Day / TBD
For three weeks, eighth grade English classes learn about William Shakespeare and his early comedy, The Taming of the Shrew. The play is broken into seventeen scenes, and each English class (plus one drama class) takes one scene to work on during class time. Students either act in the scene – complete with costumes by sewing/foods teacher, Donna Collier – or help to direct it. Language learners and special needs students will also be acting in the student performance of The Taming of the Shrew. The complex play, in which a domineering gentleman “tames” a shrewish (read: wild) woman, is also an opportunity for teachers to discuss how the roles of men and women have changed over the centuries. Although the play has been called misogynistic by a few critics, Kate, the shrew, delivers the most powerful lines of the play: “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break. I will be free as I please in words.” Students are better for learning the words of William Shakespeare.
Shrew Day is a full day for all eighth graders at Muir. In the morning, the students watch an abbreviated, professional production of The Shrew, produced by Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, a professional theatre troupe based in Topanga Canyon. Then, fifteen actors from the same company will lead groups in various Shakespeare-related workshops, including jousting, juggling, scansion, Elizabethan song and dance, and comic characterizations. Each student will attend three workshops, which are active and enjoyed by students and supervising teachers alike. After lunch, the student version of The Taming of the Shrew begins. Students have a blast speaking the words of “The Bard” and seeing their friends dressed up in Elizabethan garb.
Not only are several PTA parents backstage helping students get into their costumes, the John Muir PTA supplies the funds for bringing in the Will Geer actors and teaching artists.
The eighth grade English teachers at Muir are proud that the thousands of students who have gone through our school over the past nine years have had a positive first experience with Shakespeare. The Taming of the Shrew is successful at Muir because the only way to truly appreciate and understand the greatest English playwright is to “speak the speech…trippingly on the tongue,” as Hamlet, from another Shakespearean classic, once said.
Ted DeVirgilis
Rod Rothacher
Justin Riner
Steven Moos
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8th Grade Travel
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