Hello All,
Hope everyone is having an enjoyable winter break. I wanted to provide a little status update. When practice resumes next week, we will begin preparations in earnest for the State tournament in March. I will email a letter later this week providing details for the tournament. The cost per student this year for the tournament will be $335. This includes registration, room, board, meals, and transportation to and from the tournament. We will have limited scholarship money available.
Some important dates coming up in early January:
Saturday January 11 - Saturday tournament
Monday January 13 - Linguishtik worksheets due. Presidents and Propaganda questions from 8th graders due.
Friday January 17 - State tournament money and health form due
Monday January 20 - No practice
Tuesday January 21 - Special practice, State tournament teams announced.
Please note we also have an Academic Games sponsored fun night coming up (more details coming really soon). This is our big fundraiser for the year, and we ask all Academic Games parents to volunteer at the Fun Night.
I will post some info detailing the Propaganda techniques we learned before break and some that we are going to learn right after break. I have also posted a set of Presidents worksheets on the right. No points will be awarded for these, but they are a very useful study tool. I would also recommend everyone take a look at AGLOA.org, the official national AG website. They have a section called online learning that has both Presidents and Propaganda quizzes.
Only 64 more days until States!
