Wednesday, March 31, 2021

From the Desk of the Principal - 

Reminder -- Students should fill out the Virtual Career Fair interest survey in Advisory today!

The link to the info and the survey were sent out yesterday to the all.

 

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

 

March 29

This week we will finish our Women’s History Month announcements. The focus will be

women who were the first to do something in their field of study or expertise.

Sally Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. She joined NASA in 1978 and in 1983

became the first American woman in space. She remains the youngest American astronaut to

have traveled to space. She was just 32. After flying twice on the Challenger, she left NASA in

1987. She continued working primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering.

She served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle

disasters, the only person to participate in both. She died in 2012 of pancreatic cancer.

The first teacher in space was Christa McAuliffe. She was a high school teacher in Concord,

New Hampshire. She went through rigorous training and was selected as the first American

civilian to go into space but died tragically in the space shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986.

Tomorrow we will learn about Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman physician in the United

States.

March 30

Today’s famous woman is Elizabeth Blackwell. She became the first modern woman to break

through the centuries old barrier to women practicing medicine. She first studied medicine on

her own with the help of tutors. Wanting more formal training, she applied to many medical

schools in the United States, but she was rejected by all of them because she was a woman.

Finally, she was admitted to Geneva Medical College in New York and received her M.D.

degree in 1849. She did her internship in England, but when she returned, no hospital would hire

her. So, she opened up a clinic with her sister in the slums of New York City. The clinic’s

success led to the women establishing the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, to

which they later attached a medical college for women, the first of its kind. She continued to

promote women in medicine through her activities in the medical community and her writings.

Tomorrow we will learn about the first woman to serve in the House of Representatives.

March 31

Today’s famous woman was the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives. She

fought for women’s suffrage in Montana which granted women the right to vote in 1915. Two

years later she was elected to serve in the House of Representatives. She was an unrelenting

pacifist, who believed “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” She voted

against the US entering World War I. That vote cost the 1918 election. She then went on to

work as a lobbyist, social worker, and lecturer before being elected to the House again in 1940.

On December 8, 1940, she cast the only vote against the US declaration of war on Japan. She

remained devoted to her beliefs and at 87 led a “Jeannette Ranking Brigade” of 5,000 women in a march on Washington against US involvement in Vietnam .

 

March 8

Today is International Women’s Day. This year’s theme is “Women in leadership: Achieving

an equal future in a COVID-19 world.” It is to celebrate the tremendous efforts by women and

girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19

pandemic and highlight the gaps that remain.

Unfortunately, women are still underrepresented in public life and decision-making according to

the UN Secretary-General’s recent report. Women are the Heads of State or Government in 22

countries. At this rate, gender equality among Heads of Government will take another 130 years.

Women are at the forefront of the battle against COVID-19 as front-line, health sector workers,

scientists, doctors, and caregivers yet they get paid 11% less globally than their male

counterparts. We see positive results when women lead. Woman, especially young women, are

leading diverse and inclusive movements online and on the streets for social justice, climate

change, and equality in all parts of the world.

So, on this International Women’s Day, join women in calling for Generation Equality so as to

have an equal future for all.

Tomorrow we will learn about Madam C.J. Walker.

March 9

Madam C.J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove on a Louisiana plantation where her parents had

been enslaved prior to the Civil War. Her family worked as sharecroppers. Sarah’s parents died

when she was 7 so she moved in with her sister and brother-in-law. She married at age 14 to

escape harsh treatment from her brother-in-law and had a daughter but lost her husband when

she was just 20. She moved to St. Louis and lived with her brothers while she took in laundry.

She suffered a scalp malady that caused her to lose her hair. She tried several treatments,

including those made by Annie Malone, a black entrepreneur. She then moved to Denver and

began selling Malone’s products door to door. She married Charles Joseph Walker and began

making and marketing her own hair care products. Her most successful product was Madam C.J.

Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower. She maintained beauty schools alongside her factories and

trained women as hair culturists who became Walker Agents.

Madam Walker was the first black woman to become a self-made millionaire. She was very

generous with her fortune and helped to counteract social injustice and racial violence.

Unfortunately, she died of hypertension and kidney failure at the age of 51. She did not let

racism stop her from achieving the goals that she built her identity around. If you would like to

learn more, watch the Netflix series titled “Self-Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J.

Walker.”

Tomorrow we will learn about Billie Holiday.


March 10

Billie Holiday was born illegitimately to a black teen in Baltimore around 1915. She was named

Eleanora and took the surname Holiday at age 3 when her father married her mother. She chose

the name Billie after an actress named Billie Dove. She grew up lonely and poor and after her

father abandoned, she and her mother at the age of 10, she moved to New York and earned most

of her own living running errands for a local brothel owner. Her education ended at the 5 th grade.

In 1931 she started dancing at a Harlem nightclub to support her sickly mother. She was asked

to sing for tips and later debuted at the Apollo, a famous nightclub in Harlem. She toured with

the Count Basie and Artie Shaw bands from 1937-1938 but was excluded from hotel rooms and

concert halls because she was black. Unfortunately, she escaped from the pain with alcohol and

drugs and could never recover from it. She served time in prison for drug possession but was

able to recover enough to perform for a while. She died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1959.

You can learn more about Billie Holliday in a new movie on Hulu called The United States vs.

Billie Holiday. It tells the story of her career in the 1940’s when the government targeted her in

a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs. Their ultimate goal was to stop her from singing

her controversial ballad, “Strange Fruit” which was about the lynching of black men.

Tomorrow we will learn about Ma Rainey.

March 12

Ma Rainey was born Gertrude Pridgett in 1886. She performed as a young teenager and became

known as Ma Rainey after her marriage to Will Rainey in 1904. She was known as the “Mother

of the Blues” because of her powerful vocal abilities, energetic disposition, majestic phrasing,

and a moaning style of singing. She toured with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and made over 100

recordings. She retired in 1935 and died in 1939.

You can learn more about Ma Rainey in the Netflix movie “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” The

movie takes place in 1927 when she joins her band for a recording session in Chicago.

 

Attention Model UN members - please remember 

to pick up your information packets from Ms. Dolan this week.  

They are available now through April 2.


WRVC Announces Another Student of the Semester

 It is with great pleasure that we share this exciting news... Tanis Hartery has been selected as the WRVC’s Student of the Semester for their program! The teacher(s) in each program thoughtfully selects a student that best represents the Center’s core values as well as shows dedication to their learning.  Our core values are Respect, Integrity, Inclusivity, Continuous Improvement, Innovation, and Pride.  

Congratulations Tanis!

Monday, March 22, 2021


 Attention All Students:


Please DO NOT delete your Trimester 2 Google Classrooms or unenroll from them until the end of this week.  If you delete or remove your Google Classrooms for T2, you will lose all of your work that is still being graded.

Thursday, March 18, 2021

 

    SPRING SPORTS

    PLAYER INFORMATION MEETINGS

Baseball ---- 3/22 - first day of practices Fr/Soph 4:45 & Jr/Sr 5:45 - GYM
Softball ------ 3/15 3:00 - GYM
G Lacrosse - 3/24 2:10 - CAFE
B Lacrosse - 3/23 2:30 - AUD
G Tennis ---- 3/16 and 3/18 2:00 - RM 12 
B Tennis -----
B & G Track - 


 

The free breakfast and lunch program has been extended through the summer for anyone who wants or needs it.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

 

The newspaper club is holding another competition on www.behsnews.com: whoever is able to correctly guess the winning teams for both the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments will win a Dunkin' Donuts gift card. All entries must be submitted by the deadline, Thursday, March 18th.

 March 15

 

In honor of our March Madness Spirit Week, we will learn about “mad women” in American history.

 

Our first mad woman is Lizzie Borden.  Lizzie Andrew Borden was born in 1860 in Fall River, Massachusetts.   She had a normal childhood and after her mother died, her father married a woman named Abby Durfee Gray.   After the marriage, Lizzie and her older sister had frequent arguments with their father and stepmother.  On the morning of August 4, 1892, Lizzie’s stepmother and father were killed in their home.  Lizzie was arrested and tried for their murders.  The trial was well covered in the press and there were numerous issues with the search of the home and the collection of evidence.  After a half hour of deliberations, the jury acquitted Lizzie.  She lived out her life in Fall River but was ostracized by society.

 

There are numerous theories about how and who killed the Bordens.  There have been books and even a Broadway musical written about her.  It is still a mystery today.

 

Tomorrow we will learn about Nellie Bly.

 

March 16

 

Our famous mad woman today is Nellie Bly.

 

Nellie Bly was born Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman and was the best-known “girl reporter” of her day.  She was famous for her colorful exploits.  She was largely self-educated and embarked on her reporting career in her early twenties.  To gain employment at the New York World in 1887, she finagled admission as a patient to Blackwell’s Island, a notorious mental institution.  After spending a few weeks there, she wrote about the inhumane conditions at mental institution which led to several million dollars’ worth of improvements.  Nellie is also known for her 1888-1889 solo around-the-world voyage in seventy-two days.  When she died, the Evening Journal eulogized her as having been “the best reporter in America.”

 

March 17

 

In honor of our March Madness Spirit Week, we are learning about mad women.  Today’s mad woman is Carry Nation.

 

Carry Nation – whose first husband was a hopeless drunk – came to believe she had been chosen by God to destroy saloons.  She was the co-founder of a local Texas branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the director of a campaign that eventually resulted in the closing of every saloon in Medicine Lodge, Texas.  She took direct action when she went to saloons.  She smashed bottles and beer kegs with her hatchet.  She had the support of many women, but not her second husband who divorced her.  She often found herself in jail for her antics and raised bail through speaking engagements and the sale of souvenir hatchets.

 

Tomorrow we will learn about Calamity Jane.

March 18

 

Today’s mad woman was Martha Jane Cannary, otherwise known as Calamity Jane.  She was born in Missouri and raised in Montana.  She grew up to become a sharpshooting, hard-riding gender nonconformist of the Old West whose colorful life has become part of its folklore.  Accounts of her life are sketchy.  She lost both parents at about the age of twelve and became a drifter.  She developed a fondness for liquor, a distaste for wearing women’s clothing and did all kinds of jobs to survive.  She probably got the nickname “Calamity Jane” from either the compassion she showed the unfortunate or from the warning she gave to men of what might befall them if they got on her wrong side.

 

Tomorrow we will learn about Dorothea Dix.

 

March 19

 

Today we are wrapping up our mad women week with a person devoted her life to caring for those with mental illness.  Dorothea Dix was born in Hampden, Maine, in 1802.  Little is known about her childhood other than she had abusive and alcoholic parents.  Due to this, she went to live with her grandmother in Massachusetts and became a teacher when she was older.  Unfortunately, she was very sickly and had to stop teaching.  It was recommended that she go to Europe, so she did.  She met with groups of reformers and toured hospitals for the mentally ill.  She brought her findings back to the states and began pushing states to care for the unfortunate and established mental hospitals in three states.  She served as a nurse during the Civil War and when it was over, she went back to fighting for social reform.  Her work culminated in the restructuring of hospitals in America and abroad and changed the way the mentally ill were treated.

Monday, March 15, 2021

More... WRVC Students of the Semester!


Congratulations to Jacob McDonald, Keegan Moseley and Hayden Sargent for being awarded WRVC’s Student of the Semester for their program! The teacher(s) in each program thoughtfully selects a student that best represents the Center’s core values as well as shows dedication to their learning. Our core values are Respect, Integrity, Inclusivity, Continuous Improvement, Innovation, and Pride. BE Proud!

Thursday, March 11, 2021

BEHS Parent/Community Forum on Synchronous Teaching & Learning



BEHS Parent/Community Forum on Synchronous Teaching & Learning:

We'll host our forum from 6p-7p to share information

about Synchronous Teaching & Learning

Here's the link to the meeting: meet.google.com/niu-ruub-utc

Join by phone: ‪(US) +1 617-675-4444‬ PIN: ‪422 325 009 5818‬#

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

 

Are you wondering what electives you're going to take next year?  Looking for something different, challenging and fun?  Then sign up for Mock Trial with Mrs. BK and Mr. Fox.  This fall only elective class is open to sophomores-seniors.  We work as a team to prep an entire court case and compete at the Mock Trial Competition in the Fall.  Find it under the social studies section in the course selection guide or swing by room 125 for more info.

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

WRVC Students of the Semester


Congratulations to Delia Havu and Mark Goncharov for being awarded WRVC’s Student of the Semester for their program! The teacher(s) in each program thoughtfully selects a student that best represents the Center’s core values as well as shows dedication to their learning. Our core values are Respect, Integrity, Inclusivity, Continuous Improvement, Innovation, and Pride. BE Proud!

 

Monday – March 1

March is Women’s History Month.  Since many of the women's suffrage centennial celebrations originally scheduled for 2020 were curtailed, the National Women's History Alliance is extending the annual theme for 2021 to "Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to Be Silenced.  Each day during the month of March you will learn about a woman who has made a difference and many of them were involved in the fight for the right of women to vote. 

 

Since February was Black History Month, it seems appropriate this week to focus on women of color who made a significant impact on history and Phillis Wheatley is one of those women.  Phillis was captured in Africa and transported to America in 1761.  She was purchased by the Wheatley family and became the personal servant of Mrs. Wheatley.  The family recognized her intelligence and began nurturing it.  Phills began writing and her first book of poems was published in 1773.  She corresponded with important men of the times and even traveled to England.  She was emancipated in 1767 but struggled financially and lived in poverty for the rest of her short life.  Her work was so powerful that the abolitionists used it as an example of the intelligence and promise of black people.

 

Tomorrow we will learn about Sojourner Truth.

 

March 2

Today’s historic woman of color is Sojourner Truth.  She was born a slave under the name of Isabella Baumfree in upstate New York and was due her freedom in 1827, but her owner planned to keep her enslaved, so she ran away with her infant daughter leaving her son behind.  She later filed a court case saying her son had been sold illegally.  She became one of the first black women to file a court case in America and she won.  In 1843 she changed her name to Sojourner Truth and became a preacher.  She traveled the country sharing her message of women’s rights and the abolishment of slavery.  Her most famous speech was entitled “Ain’t I a Woman?”  She continued to fight for women’s rights until her death in 1883. 

 

Tomorrow we will learn about Harriet Tubman.

 

March 3

In honor of Women’s History Month, today’s famous woman is Harriet Tubman.  She was born into slavery and was fortunate to remain united with her parents throughout her youth.  When she was 15, she was hit in the head with an iron weight and suffered from narcolepsy which caused her to fall asleep at random times.  She ran away so her owners would not discover her condition.  Starting in 1849 and working for 11 years, she returned to the South 13 times and lead more than 70 men, women, and children to safety via the Underground Railroad.  During the Civil War she served as an army nurse and spy for the North.  She lived in poverty for the rest of her life and donated her time, money, and property to people in need.  In the future, her picture is going to be on the $20 bill making her the first woman on the front of US paper currency. 

 

Tomorrow we will learn about Rebecca Lee Crumpler.

 

 

 

March 4

 

Today’s famous woman is Rebecca Lee Crumpler.  She was born in 1831 and raised by her aunt in Pennsylvania.  As a young woman of color, she attended a private school in Massachusetts and went to work as a nurse for 8 years.  In 1860 she applied to an all-white medical school, the New England Female Medical College.  She was accepted and graduated in 1864 as the 1st African American woman physician.  She practiced in Boston specializing in the care of women and children.  After the Civil War, she went to Richmond, Virginia, and worked with the Freedmen’s Bureau treating former slaves.  Rebecca spent her life caring for others, especially women and children and published what may have been the first medical article by a black woman, a two-part text titled A Book of Medical Discourse.

 

Tomorrow we will learn about Mary Bowser.

 

March 5

 

Our famous woman today is Mary Bowser.  Very little is recorded about her life.  We know that she was born into slavery in Richmond, Virginia, around 1840.  She was purchased by the Van Lew family as a companion for their daughter, Elizabeth.  The Van Lews were Northern spies and abolitionists involved in the Underground Railroad.  Elizabeth granted Mary her freedom and arranged for her to receive her education in Philadelphia.  After that Mary wanted to assist the Van Lews in their efforts against the Confederacy so she became a slave spy in Jefferson Davis’s Confederate White House and passed on information about troop movements and army plans to Elizabeth.  After the war, Mary educated freed slaves and traveled around the country giving speeches under a variety of aliases.  Eventually she disappeared completely.  In 1995 she was inducted into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.

 Are you interested in an internship or extended study?  Want a chance to learn from a hands on real world experience and earn credits?  BEHS will be offering these programs for juniors and seniors starting next fall.  Programming will need to be completed in advance so if you are interested please email Mr. Burleson now to set up a meeting.




March 3rd is the Special Olympics’ Spread the Word Inclusion day. It started off as Spread the Word to End the Word where pledges were given with the goal of ending the use of the R-word to show respect towards those with disabilities. With support of Organizations such as the Special Olympics, it has grown to what it is today in the hopes of making the world more inclusive to people with disabilities. Help spread inclusion with the Civil Rights team!


 The Yearbook is still looking for photos:


SENIORS:  Throw Back pictures.  Any photos of you and your classmates from elementary or junior high?  Or earlier high school years?  Please send them to the yearbook.


ALL STUDENTS and FACULTY/STAFF:  Take a selfie of you with your favorite pet...for our Pet Spread. 


Send photos to yearbook@bonnyeagle.org


CLUB PHOTOS - Will be taken next week.  Make sure to check in w/your advisor for the times that will be determined this week.

 

 Attention Baseball Players - Check your Synergy email 

                                            regarding some pre-season fundraising details.