5+January

Topic: • Utilities - what are they and how do you get them?

Resources: every city has a website & you can go to that website to see where to go to get your utilities turned on... Here is Philly's - []

Some apartments come with utilities included, like heat and hot water. That is a good thing, but then you have to get electricity turned on and internet. Since you already have a cell phone the best thing to do is get a cable type internet because then you won't have to pay for a phone line you do not use.

__**Scholarship Information:**__ The NCAA Clearinghouse website has changed. This is the website I was telling you about for current high school athletes. The new website is eligibilitycenter.org. Transcripts must be sent in for the student and Sat scores, as well as registration fee. I think this is valuable information to pass along to students as well as the counselor.

__**Capstone:**__

UPDATE: 1/19 1) The written proposal meeting the guidelines.2) A timeline of future work3) Their core values defined4) Some type of bibliography A sample of what this all looks like in one convenient location:http://docs.google.com/Doc? docid= 0AQcFR0wy9CIxZGZqajRzcmpfNDdnc W5iYjJjYg&hl=en

1/19 -23 to work: Possibly

The proposal was made that perhaps we could use class time during the week after Martin Luther King Day (or 2-3 days of it, at any rate) to have the seniors work on Capstone, which would include work time, training on creating a schedule for themselves, keeping track of progress, etc, and proposal review. Hopefully also getting them matched with a mentor.

The idea was to use some of the senior classes since grades are due Wednesday or Thursday, most of the classes are switching (I guess all except math, which is why they're not on here), so potentially you all might not have a rigorous plan for that week, and may not want to be trying to start a new class while finishing grades and/or assigning work for an old class for which the grades are pretty much finalized anyway.