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Please note... ---- MCAS Testing (make-ups & new students) ---- ELA MCAS, 11/2 - 11/4/16 and Math MCAS, 11/9, 11/10/16 ---- The second quarter has just begun (1st quarter grades closed on 10/28/16) ---- SAT Testing, Saturday, 11/5/16 ---- No School (Presidential Election), 11/8/16 ---- Parent-Teacher Conferences (Evening Conferences only on Wed. 11/9/16, 6:30pm-8:30pm) ---- Parent-Teacher Conferences (Daytime Conferences only on Thurs. 11/10/16, 7:30am-2:00pm) ---- No School (Veterans Day), 11/11/16 ... which, by the way, is also known as Armistice Day, which marked the end of World War I.  If you'd like to read more about this,  please click here. Also, don't forget this upcoming weekend, on Saturday night/ Sunday morning, to "turn your clocks back." Regards, Mr. Chiocca ~~ aka Mista Chocka ~~

Week of 10/17 - 10/21/16 Hello, Friendly reminders... this week, on Wed. 10/19, all freshmen (9th graders) will be going on a field trip! Also, and most juniors (11th graders) and sophomores (10th graders) will be taking the  PSAT at Burlington High School, on Wed. 10/19. Thank you, Mr. Chiocca ELL Teacher, Burlington High School

Hello all, Things are busy here, as the school year gets off to a fine start.  Here are two pictures of students in my clubs, the BHS Multicultural Club and our BHS African American Student Association.  We had our building-wide activity fair yesterday, 9/22/16; this is when 9th graders (freshmen @ BHS) get to learn about extracurricular clubs we have here. Thank you to our club officers, for running our tables. Mr. Chiocca  @MistaChocka  --

Hello parents/ guardians/ families/ students: Friendly reminder, that tonight, Thursday, Sept. 15th, from 6:30pm - 8:30pm, we will have our Fall Open House . To visit with Mr. Chiocca, come on down to the Lower Library, to our ELL Classroom, LL3, anytime tonight.  To read about tonight's plan from our principal's blog,  click here. Thank you, Mr. Chiocca

Hello parents/ guardians of our ELLs: Welcome to Burlington High School!  This blog is run by Mr. Adam Chiocca, the ELL Teacher for Burlington High School, and I write this to you now, in early September, 2016. I will be sharing this ELL blog address with all students over the next two weeks so that hopefully most of my ELLs' parents/ families will follow this blog. I hope to keep you updated throughout the school year on all the important events, programs, dates and testing, here at Burlington High. If you have any questions, please feel free to email or call me (see BHS ELL Welcome Letter), or if you're coming in to BHS, please come on down for a quick visit (our ELL classroom is in the BHS Lower Library).  Ok?  Excellent. Thank you, Mr. Chiocca

Greetings!  Update, from ELL at Burlington High: Here’s a picture from our recent ELL Class & Friends College Campus Field Trip.  As you may know, it is a standard American practice, for many American parents to take their son/ daughter to visit some colleges and universities, and take the official campus tour. This is generally done during the student’s junior year in high school (11th grade), or over the summer before senior year (12th grade).  For my high school ELL students, I know that most won’t do this, and yet I know it’s important to visit the college campus, before you go, so that you can see if you think it will be a good fit for you.  This year, we went on tours at Middlesex Community College, ... https://www.middlesex.mass.edu/ ... and Salem State University https://www.salemstate.edu/ .

I think I could support this.  Sleep, as you may well know, is very important.  Thanks, again, to Patrick Larkin https://twitter.com/patrickmlarkin  , for another thought-provoking post. Excellent post_April 2016

Hello, Ok, just a quick update.  Here at Burlington High School, last week, we had the state-mandated MCAS English Exam, for all current sophomores and some juniors.  Here is a link, to  learn more about MCAS testing. In ELL, we often try to cover current events, in modern American culture, and so here is a link to learn more about  Easter's symbols and traditions, as told by the History Channel. In March, each year, I enjoy watching "March Madness," which is the largest college basketball tournament each year; as they say, it's "one and done."  This means that when a team loses, they are "knocked out" of the tournament.  It is certainly a big part of popular modern American culture, and so we talk about it in class.  Here is  a link to learn more about this fun annual tournament. Good to see you! Come back soon!  Thanks, https://twitter.com/MistaChocka

Hello parents, I wanted to share a quick post, to get me back on to a more regular schedule of blogging; let me share an update of some events, plans, and things "going on" here at Burlington High School. January 19 - 22, 2016 was Mid-Year Exams ----- Here is a great blog post Ms. Scheffer wrote, about some apps our students could use to help prepare for big exams, like the "Mid-Years."   Here is her BHS Help Desk blog. February 2 - 10, 2016 was WIDA ACCESS Testing. ----- Here is info from  the DESE page on ACCESS Testing. ----- Also, here is the  WIDA page, which guides our teaching, and aligns to ACCESS. February 2 - 10, 2016 was also Poetry Out Loud. ----- This national competition is a way that high schools can make poetry exciting, by putting it into a performance format, in which each and every student must memorize and recite a poem in class.  Students who do well then can advance to recitations, in front of the student body.  Our winner this yea