NAL Photos from Our First Meet

Marshall NAL Wins First Match

Marshall NAL played their first game last night, competing against Hamilton and winning 23-14. A big part of our success can be attributed to the excellent efforts of our third-quarter team who spoke knowledgeably about their presentation subject. A big thumbs up to our third-quarter team, Sarah Billings, Sydney Climer, Aron Martinez, Heather Golden, and Allyson Kitchens.

Receving Mrs. Ott's gold star of approval for combining two sentences into one is Elisha McBride. Anna Kindle gets the social studies gold star for knowing just who Edward Kennedy was. :) We will ask Mr. Kimber and Ms. Robinson who gets the gold star for math and science!

Thank you to Gonzalo Guzman for "dropping" even though you had an injured foot.

The NAL students looked professional and conducted themselves well. Pictures to come soon!

The Periodic Table

Use this awesome website to help you learn the periodic table!

Vocabulary Wednesdays!

Ms. McPherson, a teacher at our school and an NAL judge, recommended this website. It's a vocabulary tool, and, for each answer you get right, this organization donates rice to hungry people around the world. You can help by being smart!

American Authors

Gotta get to know these!

Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughter-House Five, Cat's Cradle),

John Steinbeck (The Grapes Of Wrath),

Mark Twain (The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn),

Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird),

Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter),

Herman Melville (Moby Dick),

F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby),

William Faulkner (The Sound And The Fury),

Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man And The Sea),

Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind),

J.D. Salinger (The Catcher In The Rye),

Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-tale Heart),

Eugene O'Neill (A Long Day's Journey into the Night),

Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire),

David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross),

Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman) ...

October 26: Do You Know Your State Capitals?

Spend today's practice quizzing each other on the state capitals. Tomorrow, we move on to our next subject! (American authors!)

NAL Schedule

NAL Schedule

Focus for our First Practice

Hi, guys! Thank you for being a part of NAL at Marshall. To begin, we'll watch the first video at this link:

http://www.nationalacademicleague.org/SearchResults.asp?Cat=22

After that, we will spend some time on today's focus, which is learning all of the states and their capitals. Use this quiz at funbrain to help you! Only do the U.S. and if you get good at the easy level, then go up to the next level. You've got to know the states and capitols for NAL.

http://www.funbrain.com/where/index.html

You can access this and practice from home, too, and I hope you will! I'm happy you're here with us in NAL.

With lots of love,

Mrs. Ott

NAL Tryouts This Monday and Tuesday in Room 201

Please come to room 201 on either Monday or Tuesday from 11-11:40 or 3:20-4:00 pm for NAL tryouts. I hope to see you there!