Welcome to Emerson High School
Proud Winner of the 2007
Oklahoma
Medal for Excellence in Alternative
Education
Important Dates:
| Tuesday, September 9th,
2008 |
Open House 4:30
p.m. until 7:00 p.m |
Tuesday, September 9th and
Wednesday, September 10th |
Book Fair at Open
House in cafeteria! Check out new fall books! We look forward to
seeing you!
Book Fair in cafeteria until 12:30 p.m. |
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 |
Between the Lions! Puppet show at 1:00
p.m. in the auditorium.
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008 |
Race for the Cure! Join the Emerson
team at Bricktown Ballpark at 7:45 a.m.! To register to be a
member of the Emerson Peer Educator's Team, go online to
www.komencentralok.org/goto/EmersonPeerEducators
or
www.komencentralok.org/goto/Emerson.Peer.Educators |
Don't Forget--Open House
and Book Fair!
All students and parents
are cordially invited to Emerson High School’s Open House and Book Fair
on September 9th, 2008 from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
There will be refreshments,
student awards, PTSA elections/meeting, classroom visits, door prize
drawings, and…….THE BOOK FAIR!!! The Book Fair will begin
during Open House and last all day on September 10th. So,
all students, invite your parents/guardians and expect to have a great
evening!!!
Hope to see you there!
Welcome to Between the
Lions!
 Between
the Lions is a PBS children's
puppet show designed to promote reading. The show is a co-production
between WGBH in Boston and Sirius Thinking LTD., in New York City, in
association with Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
Between the Lions
focuses on teaching reading and a love of books to young children in a
fun, informative way. In addition to teaching basic reading,
pronunciation, and grammar skills,
Between the Lions
also strives to promote a general love of reading in its viewers. It
explores the many subjects that books can cover and shows how different
people may enjoy reading different things. It also demonstrates the
value of reference books and the importance of reading in other everyday
activities like using a computer, cooking with a recipe, or finding your
way with street signs. Above all,
Between the Lions
expresses a contagious enthusiasm
for reading, with the underlying message being "Reading is cool".
Between the
Lions will be at Emerson on
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. Teen mothers of Emerson,
bring your children to enjoy great reading and entertaining puppetry,
and receive a free and wonderful gift, courtesy of
Between the Lions.
Emerson
Peer Educators in Partnership with
Work to Bring Breast
Cancer Awareness to the Community
| October is
Breast Cancer Awareness month, and the students in the Emerson
High School program, Breast Health Education for Adolescents
and Women in their Community: A Peer Education Program, are
beginning to prepare for the annual Race for the Cure walk on
Saturday, October 4th, 2008.
The program at
Emerson is a response to an identified area of need for health
education among young women ages 15-23 and is designed to
encourage healthy practices and screening for women in minority
communities.
This program is
teaching our young women to protect themselves and encourage
their family and friends to do the same. Students work on
community outreach projects for the school year.
The Power of a
Promise
Susan G.
Komen for the Cure was
founded on a promise between two sisters. Susan G. Komen had a
3 year struggle with breast cancer and, before passing away, her
sister, Nancy G. Brinker, promised her she would do everything
in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that
promise became
Susan G.
Komen for the Cure and it
launched the global breast cancer movement. Thanks to events
that raise money for breast health and breast cancer, there has
been over $1 billion invested into that promise.
For the past five years Emerson High School Peer
Educators have joined this worthy cause! Peer educators
are a group of high school science-health career students who
believe they can decrease the number of deaths of women from breast
cancer by teaching small classes designed for their peers about
breast health. These classes teach healthy life choices for
male and female breast cancer prevention, the importance of
clinical exams, the value of knowing family health history, and how and when to perform breast
self-exams. Emerson peer educators will participate in the
Oklahoma City Race for the Cure, a 5k Race and 1 mile family
run/walk, on Saturday, October 4th,
2008.
For registration information, you can contact Mrs.
Bennett, Mrs. Pirrong, Mr. Williams, or any peer educator, or
you can visit:
Did you know . . .
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Cancerous tumors in the
breast usually grow very slowly so that by the time one is
large enough to be felt as a lump, it may have been growing
for as long as 10 years.
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Breast cancer is the leading
cause of cancer deaths in women ages 15-54 years old.
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More than 11,100 women will
be diagnosed with breast cancer this year.
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More than 1,100 will die
from the disease.
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Not only women get breast
cancer. About 600 men will die from breast cancer in the
U.S. this year.
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Annual Blood Drive Coming
Soon!
Many thanks to Cox
Communications for Funding EmersonReads Revved Up!!
How does biking, reading, and gaming
build literacy? We'll keep you informed on our progress!
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