Capitol Hill Campus - High School

Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2010

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Chavez Prep will have a variety of events this summer for new and returning Chavez Prep families.

Mandatory New Family/Student Orientations New Chavez Prep families are required to attend one session:

- Tuesday, July 27th – 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
- Wednesday, August 4th – 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
- Saturday, August 7th – 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Mandatory Rising 9th Grade Family/Student Orientation Rising 9th grade students and families are required to attend one session:

-Tuesday, August 10th – 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
-Thursday, August 12th – 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

New Family Meet and Greet New Chavez Prep families can choose to attend either session:

-Tuesday, August 17th – 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
-Thursday, August 19th – 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Returning Middle School Family Information Session and Mixer

-Wednesday, August 18th – 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

In addition, please mark your calendars for our Back to School Night scheduled for Tuesday, August 31st from 5:30 pm to 7:00pm.

Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010

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Each summer Art Teacher Jennifer Sonkin and other staff take Chavez Students to New Orleans for public policy service projects. It is a very rewarding and enlightening experience for the students and staff. Throughout the year, students raise money to travel to New Orleans.

If you are interested in supporting our students and learning more, please view the photo gallery and watch the student videos on their website at www.neworleansandback.com or click here.

Posted on Monday, June 21, 2010

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The Washington DC Examiner featured an editorial on safety while riding the metro, written by Capitol Hill Junior, Brittnie Smith. The editorial was featured on the Examiner.com website on June 15th. Smith submitted her editorial to Latraniecesa Johnson-Wilson, who writes columns on DC Women’s Issues for the Examiner. She praised Smith for emailing her about publishing her editorial, saying, “I was overcome with emotion to hear from such a well spoken young lady who took the time and effort to write me.”

Please click here or copy the link below and paste it into the address bar of your browser to read Brittnie’s work.

http://www.examiner.com/x-38287-DC-Womens-Issues-Examiner%7Ey2010m6d15-The-Fear-of-Metro-By-Brittnie-Smith

Posted on Monday, June 14, 2010

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After a three-year search for a location, Tiger Woods’s charitable foundation will announce Tuesday that it plans to open campuses for the Tiger Woods Learning Center this fall at a pair of District charter schools, following through on a pledge to make Washington the East Coast base for Woods’s philanthropic efforts.

The campuses will be located at two branches of the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy, one at the Capitol Hill Campus in Ward 6, the other just off the Anacostia Freeway at the Parkside Campus in Ward 7 in Northeast, and are due to have construction completed in mid-August, with openings in October.

“I’m excited we are moving forward on this initiative in the Washington, D.C. community,” Woods said in a statement released through his Tiger Woods Foundation. “The two campuses will bring the best of our curriculum to some very deserving kids. A lot of people have helped to make this happen, and I’m very grateful for their support.”

Woods has one learning center open in Anaheim, Calif., where underprivileged children in grade 5 through high school concentrate not on golf, but take classes ranging from forensic science to graphic design. Officials from Woods’s foundation intended to open a similar center in Washington — and still may do so — but struggled to find an appropriate, affordable piece of property to rent, renovate or buy.

“What we’ve decided to do was to commit to the campus model right now,” Greg McLaughlin, CEO of the Tiger Woods Foundation, said by phone. “And then I think we’re going to evaluate from there and see exactly how well it’s working out. But we absolutely have not ruled out doing a bigger facility, by any means.”

Woods’s foundation will hire between five and eight staff members for the two campuses, which will be housed in renovated space within the two schools, and foundation officials said they hope to serve more than 2,000 children over the course of the 2010-11 school year. The curriculum will focus on career exploration in science, technology, engineering, math and communications.

The Chavez schools, opened in 1998, have four campuses in the District that serve more than 1,400 students in grades 6-12. Some programs will be open to other District students, but Chavez students will have the first opportunities.

“We envision it being something that our students will benefit from a great deal,” said Jeff Cooper, the managing director and chief operating officer of the Chavez schools. “It’ll bring great technological resources, and they’ve got a reputation of having a lot of success out in California. We’re really excited about what these programs can bring our students.”

Article excerpt taken from Washington Post Article on June 8, 2010.

Posted on Friday, June 11, 2010

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All new and returning Chavez Prep students are expected to read at least one book and record the summer reading in the provided Reading Journal. 8th and 9th grade students are required to read two books. The summer reading quiz is scheduled for the first day of school, August 23, 2010. In addition, the Reading Journals must be turned in to the composition teachers for full credit on Monday, August 23, 2010. The summer reading selection can be found at DC Public libraries, book stores, or the books can be purchased at Chavez Prep. Reading Journals are located in the Main Office.

Rising 6th

Epic by Connor Kostick (Fiction/fantasy)

The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Fiction/Fantasy)

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall (Realistic fiction)

Rising 7th

The Diary Of Ma Yan: The Struggles And Hopes Of A Chinese Schoolgirl by Pierre Haski (Non-fiction)

Lizzy Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (historical fiction)

Heat by Mike Lupica (Realistic fiction)

Rising 8th

The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo (Realistic fiction)

An Island Like You by Laura Ortiz Cofer- (Realistic fiction- Collection of short stories) **

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (Fiction)

Rising 9th

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines (Historical Novel) **

A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer (Autobiography)

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt (Memoir)

**Mandatory Selection