AP Exams are scheduled for May 2-13, with late testing the following week. Talk to your AP teacher or Mr. Kennelly if you have any questions. The schedule with testing locations can be found here.
docs.google.com/document/d/1J7S2sJKMq4OjPftLPZjOXfBYAxl49IFsMjC1JwOakF8/edit?usp=sharing
Congratulations to the BLS Mock Trial Team on their performance in the Yale Moot Court Tournament! Michelle Chen (IV), Emily Yu (IV), Rachel Roncka (I), and Gabriela Vasquez Rosado (I) all placed among the top 6 speakers. Michelle Chen and Amirah Redwing (III) won third place in the finals! Mirabelle Berman-Reinhardt (II), Gabriel Feinberg (III), Caroline Song (IV), Arianna Sun (V), Kate O’Riordan (V), and Ryan Murphy (VI), and Mairead Gagnon (VI) also won many victories over 5 rounds!
BLS Mock Trial Deputy Captains Mirabelle Berman-Reinhart ’23, Mira Yu ’23
BLS Mock Trial Captains Rachel Roncka ‘22, Gabriela Vasquez Rosado ’22
No Assessment Day: Eid al-Fitr, Monday, May 2
In observance of Eid al-Fitr, Monday, May 2 is considered a “No Test Day” and classroom assessments should not be administered. Students in Class V who are absent for Eid will be able to make up the science MCAS upon their return and will be excused for the day with the submission of this form.
Also known as the “Festival of Breaking the Fast,” Eid al-Fitr is celebrated by Muslims worldwide and marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. To all who observe Eid al-Fitr, we say “Eid Mubarak!”
Congrats to the BLS students who competed at the 2022 Harvard Certamen Tournament last weekend! There were over 60 teams competing from across the nation competing in their first in-person event in two years, and we’re very proud of your performance!
Novice (3rd place): Joseph Hemr, Mila Matteson, Emmy Zamora, Cynthia Francis, Thomas McMahon
Intermediate (1st place): Andrew Lai, Ailin Sha, Mark Snekvik, Hannah Stoll
Advanced (3rd place): Biya Brook, Alex Chou, Louisa Hemr, Kyler Hoogendoorn-Ecker
Remember to include a photo/selfie of yourself (or screenshot if virtual) performing your service as well as your supervisor’s name and email when submitting service to Innerview.
The 2022 Prize Night Scholarship and Financial Aid Survey is OPEN! Please apply now! This form will close on Sunday, May 1st, 2022 at 11:59 PM. Email Ms. Murray with any questions.
Looking to get henna done? Come join BLS Desi for Henna week from Tuesday 4/26 to Friday 4/29 from 2:30-4! Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday will be in room 136 and Friday will be in room 208. You can pick from a selection of designs or bring your own (if it seems reasonable). Prices will range from $4-$10+ depending on intricacy and size. We are aware that the spring concerts are taking place on Thursday and Friday, so performers will be prioritized on those days to ensure that they have enough time to remove their henna beforehand. Students and faculty are welcome!
Artist Sergio Beltrán-García worked with youth artists from Boston (3 of the students are from BLS: Emily Gillis; Tia Hashem and Molly Griffiths)) to make sense of monuments, and memorials, memory, representation, and justice. Through a series of collaborative art workshops, site visits, readings, and conversations, they explored how a memorial can become a tool for positive change and how to critique existing monuments. Together they researched, conceptualized, and built a collaborative memorial in public space that honors personal and collective histories that are important to them. In the process, the students learned about inclusive and participatory approaches to monuments and memorialization, and how to think creatively about questions of history, representation, and accessibility.
Register Here: www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/bos/ver.cfm?event_id=22904596 to see their collaborative memorial on Sunday 5/1 at the Goethe Institute
The Topol Fellows have organized a selection of books from the Keefe Library that have recently been challenged or banned in schools across the U.S. Please visit our display in the library to explore why certain titles are challenged and banned, and how the banning of books can be dangerous.
There is still time to apply to paid summer internships! State Street, MGH, Brigham and Women’s, and more are looking for candidates. Must be 16+, vaccinated and boosted, and available to work July 5-August 19. Apply as soon as possible! application.bostonpic.org/Account
A few reminders about coming and going from the library: -a 5-minute pass from any class or study hall (to print, find a book, or ask us a question) is intended for a quick drop into the library. Students should present the pass to Ms. Ellis or Ms. Harari upon arrival. -If students want to come for the entire period, they must sign up for a spot in Oculus. -If students need to make up a quiz or meet with a teacher, they should sign out/in before leaving in the binder near the front door. If gone more than 10 minutes, please provide a pass (or email) upon return. Thank you!
The BLS English Department is pleased to announce the 2022 Prize Reading competition: Prize Reading is an annual event that awards students who have excellent skills in reading aloud. No memorization or preparation is necessary. Simply complete a registration form, available outside room 519, then show up on the appointed day, choose a text, and read it aloud as clearly and expressively as you can when your name is called. The competition this year will be held on Wednesday, May 4 at 2:30 p.m. in rooms to be announced. We hope you’ll join us! Winners at each level are awarded the Gardner Medal, a distinct honor. Deadline for registration: Monday, May 1 at 2:30 pm.
Friendly and spirited students in Class III-I are needed as in-person tour guides for newly invited students and families. The Open House for future members of the Class of 2028 and 2026 will be held in May (date TBD). Because this will be our first Open House on campus in over two years, interested students should attend the Tour Guide Training and Information session during W Block, Wednesday, April 27, in the Black Box. Students who are unable to attend because they are peer mentors should email Ms. Pierce.
To indicate interest and secure a pass to the training, please complete the Tour Guide Sign Up Form by Monday, April 25 at 6:00 p.m. Students who speak languages other than English are especially needed. Community service hours will be awarded. For more information, please email Ms. Pierce at: mpierce5@bostonpublicschools.org.
Square Tech Training Program is now accepting applications for their Hybrid Summer Internships 2022! The deadline for applying is June 3rd, 2022. Students can apply online at www.cstoboston.org/square-tech
Please note the following upcoming changes to the Keefe Library’s after school schedule: Fri., 4/8: closed after school for Faculty Talent Show
Tues.,4/12: closed after school for professional development
Thurs., 4/14: closed after school for April vacation
Due to MCAS testing, please note that the Keefe Library will be closed during R5, R6, & R7 from Monday, 4/11 to Thursday, 4/14. “Closed” means no study hall sign-up or visits to print/borrow Chromebooks. Morning hours and R1-4 study halls are not affected by this change.
Interested in learning graphic design? Become an associate layout editor for Catapulta! On Monday, 4/11, and Tuesday, 4/12 we will be designing the layout of our spring magazine. All meetings will run after school from 2:30 – 3:30 pm in room 330. You do not need to attend every day to get credit, and you may work remotely on assignments if you cannot join us in person. Feel free to view past magazines at bit.ly/catapultasciencebls to get a sense of our design style, and email catapultasciencebls@gmail.com with questions. See you soon
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Imprambo No. 5
1, 2, 3 4 5, Everybody in the BlackBox for an improv show!
Thursday, April 14th at 3 and 7 PM, the Yellow Submarine Improv Trope will be hosting a trumpet-stopping showcase of improvisational comedy. You don’t want to miss it! At the door, tickets are $3 for students and $5 for adults, or tune in to the live stream: bostonlatin.ticketleap.com/imprambo
Calculus Field Day is the major annual outreach event sponsored by the Mathematics Department at Northeastern in partnership with BPS Math Department. Over 100 students from across Boston Public Schools join together one day a year to compete in teams of three, in challenging and stimulating tests in Precalculus, regular Calculus, and AP Calculus. For more details, please see the attached flyer.
We’d love for as many students to attend as possible! We ask that all interested students are registered via a form available from your math teacher, by Wednesday, April 13th. If it is easier, you can just send us the list of students, and contacts and which test they will take.
Description: The BLS Guidance webpage has been updated to include resources to help students find employment opportunities for this summer. Some applications have upcoming deadlines, so don’t wait!
Congratulations to Emily Gillis (Class II) Tia Hashem (Class I) and Molly Griffiths, who have been accepted to the Goethe Institute Spring 2022 workshop with Teaching Artist Sergio Beltran Garcia. Emily, Tia, and Molly are part of a small group of students, who will research, conceptualize, and build a collaborative memorial in public space that honors the personal and collective histories that are important to us. Students will learn about inclusive and participatory approaches to monuments and memorialization, and think creatively about questions of history, representation, and accessibility.
The School Store will be open this week on THURSDAY since there is no school on Friday. Stop by and see the new merchandise that has arrived or browse online at :
www.bls.org/bookstore
Class of 2022 lawn signs are now available and can be found online in the senior section.
Come watch the 3 V 3 basketball tournament and support your friends on April 14th at 2:45 in the upper gym! Audience entry is $2, with snacks and drinks available for purchase at the door. If you have registered as a team to play in the tournament, please bring your $20 registration fee to Ms. Sarkis in Room 208 by Thursday to officially be registered.
Need Community Service? Of course, you do! Attend the BLS Community Service Fair Thursday, April 14 after school in the dining hall to connect with 15+ community service agencies.
Congratulations to the top performers in our 4th BLS Public Declamation!
First Place: Alex Chou ~ Class I
Second Place: Ailin Sha ~ Class IV
Third Place: Mirabelle Berman Reinhardt ~ Class II
Thank you to everyone who participated and to the members of Class III, who were the audience for the assembly. As the fourth Public Declamation is the final assembly per tryouts, we look forward to seeing interested students next year. Prize Declamation, which will take place on Saturday, May 7th. It is only open to qualifying students, those who have performed in at least three of the four Public Declamations within the academic year. We wish those qualifying students good luck next month.
Grades 7 and 8 begin MCAS ELA testing next week. Please make sure your Chromebook is up to date:
Click the three vertical dots in the upper right
Choose Help -> About Google Chrome
If your Chromebook finds an update, install it
And make sure to bring your FULLY CHARGED Chromebook to school on your MCAS days. Please see Mr. Hourigan with any problems.
The BLS AP testing schedule can be found here. Speak to your AP teacher or Mr. Kennelly if you have any questions or exam conflicts.
YEMA (Youth Emergency Medicine Association) is looking for BLS student-athletes who are interested in providing feedback about sports. We aim to give student-athletes the opportunity to be educated on sport-specific injuries and hope to have several workshops for people this year. In order to host the workshops, we are looking for firsthand input from BLS student-athletes.
Please fill out this survey if you are open to doing so: Sports Injury Survey
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqS4Yj1itSJkGxF60iRwppjNp_DBsnPd7bPfVgPNTwh90cXQ/viewform
Need community service? Of course, you do! Connect with 15+ community service agencies at the BLS Community Service Fair Thursday, April 14. Find volunteer opportunities, for now, this summer, and next school year.
Congratulations to the BLS Show Choir, Pizazz, on earning a silver medal at Saturday’s Eastern Show Choir Festival. The Show Choir’s band also earned the Best Band award – amazing work!
Due to special programming, pool testing will take place on Monday, April 11 instead of Wednesday for next week only. We will resume pool testing on Wednesdays following April break.
Order Your Yearbook Today!
Each senior who wishes to order a 2022 yearbook is asked to order a yearbook by April 30, 2022. In 1998, the cost of the yearbook was $95.00 for 143 pages, only 60 of which were in color. Through the years, in spite of rising costs due to inflation, we have been able to negotiate with Balfour because of our strong relationship with the company for over thirty years, and have capped the cost for our students. Today, Liber Actorum is $100.00 for 200 pages of full color! Payment envelopes are available from Mrs. Craven in Room 105. If paying by check, please make the check payable to Boston Latin School and include your name /homeroom/yearbook in the memo section. Payments must be submitted in the distributed payment envelopes. The envelope is kept as a record of your payment for yearbook pickup in November. In order to represent all of our senior end-of-the-year activities, including prom, prize night, and graduation, our yearbook is scheduled for fall delivery. Please note: we are only able to order a yearbook for the students who submit payment to Mrs. Craven by April 30, 2022. Unfortunately, we no longer have the funds to order additional books for students who might decide to order a book after the order has been placed. Please order soon!
Attention all students who like to have fun! Come see your teachers dance, step, sing, juggle, play the guitar, or strut their stuff showing off their fashion at the Annual Faculty Talent Show on Friday, April 8th at 2:45. Tickets will be on sale during lunches starting Thursday, March 31st through Friday, April 8th for $5. The price at the door will increase to $7, so buy your tickets ahead of time. All proceeds will go to the Senior Class.
Girls and Boys State will be held from Saturday, June 11th to Friday, June 17th at Stonehill College in Easton. These programs are designed to teach democratic values and local, state, and federal government operations, politics, and policy. Students are immersed in mock-government organizations and attend classes, lectures, and debates during their week-long stay on campus. Two nominees will be chosen from Class II for each program. Deadline: Monday, April 11th. Please see Ms. Sweeney in 107 if you have questions.
PLEASE NOTE THE NEW DATE AND TIME — All returning football players and all those interested in joining the football team, please join Coach Butler and Coach McQuade in ROOM 028 at 2:15 on THURSDAY, April 7. Beat English!
At the end of the unit, AP German students were tasked with thinking of someone, either from their family, their community, or simply someone they know, who has an immigration/migration background, and to tell their story. However, this assignment went beyond a writing assignment. Students needed to show and describe the immigrant’s story by choosing a pair of shoes and when possible decorating these to represent the immigrant’s “path” in life.
Ms. Harari and Ms. Deeth were so kind to agree to display the shoes and excerpts of the students’ writings. There are some very personal stories the students have shared in their writing (the texts are displayed in German and English) and depicted visually, “tread” carefully and respectfully as you read and view them.
Always keep in mind, that there are many roads we and those before us must walk down to become the person we are.
An excerpt from Goethe’s Faust comes to mind when reading these stories:
“There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.”
The American Repertory Theater is excited to announce that applications are now open for the Youth Action Team! The Youth Action Team is a paid arts leadership program for incoming high school juniors consisting of a 6-week summer workshop and monthly meetings during the school year. Participants will work closely with the A.R.T. to develop community arts initiatives as valued voices in the A.R.T. producing network. Further details for this program can be found on the flyer attached. The application consists of three short-answer questions, a personal statement, and an interview (all applicants will have the opportunity to interview). The timeline for the program is as follows:
Timeline: March 31, 2022: Application opens
May 1, 2022: Application closes
April/May 2022: Rolling Interviews
End of May 2022: Participants notified
June 2022: Orientation celebration
July 5 – August 16, 2022: Summer Sessions
September 2022 – May 2023: Monthly Sessions
June 2023: Closing celebration
Learn more about the A.R.T.’s education programs at their website, and please direct any questions to us at education@amrep.org.
Seniors are reminded to enter all of their community service hours in Innerview by April 25. While there is no differentiation between in and out of school service for seniors, all students are still expected to meet the 100-hour community service graduation requirement. Students that exceed that expectation with at least 250 hours entered on Innerview will be eligible to receive the green community service cord at graduation. Students still needing hours should see postings on Innerview, follow @blscommunityservice on Instagram, and attend the BLS Community Service Fair on April 14.
BLS JCL attended the Massachusetts State Convention this past weekend and won a plethora of the whole school and individual awards! Congrats to all who participated and competed, thank you to all the chaperones and sponsors who helped out and supported the club, and shout out to Mr. Howard who ran the first in-person convention in 2 years!
Specific awards can be found in this Doc.
docs.google.com/document/d/1IQ2RvFeeHILzKPYaL1zU2glfY05X2Xs_90dhZ5OgOVw/edit?usp=sharing
Calling all juniors and seniors!! Are you planning on going to your class’s prom? Wondering how you can get a ticket for cheap? Enter a raffle to win a prom ticket! Raffle tickets are $5 per entry and will be sold during lunch all week from Monday, April 4th to Friday, April 8th. While you’re there, buy your Faculty Talent Show ticket!
BLS Theatre was Regional Winners at the METG High School Theatre Festival on Saturday with A Clown Show About Rain.
All-Star Company Awards were given to
Quinn Carley and Amalia Whetstone for stage management and backstage management
Sam Ringrose, Mary Bosch, Ethan Mostoslavsky, Rowyn Haynes, and Cynthia Wang for ensemble clowning
Ben Zaborksi for lighting design
Creighton Banitt for sound design
YWOC (Young Women of Color) is hosting a food drive for the St. Mary’s food pantry in to conclude the celebration of Women’s History Month! St. Mary’s food pantry is a member agency of the Greater Boston Food Bank and receives most of its food from there. The pantry also relies on Partner churches, community groups and individuals to help keep its shelves stocked, so let’s do our part to help out!
Our goal is to donate 100 non-perishable food items to the organization. Community Service hours will be provided to those who donate! For every donation of 10 non-perishable food items, you will receive 1 hour of community service! (Please take a photo for innerview and list Ms. Delorme-Metayer as the program supervisor.) Our drop-off location is the box labeled “ST. MARY’S FOOD DRIVE” outside the main office. Thank you in advance for your contribution!
Interested in STEM, journalism, and/or science journalism? Become an associate editor for Catapulta! Spring production begins next week: the copy (grammar editing) and content (scientific accuracy editing) departments will meet from Monday, April 4th to Thursday, April 7th, while the layout department (graphic design) will meet on Monday, April 11th and Tuesday, April 12th. All meetings will run from 2:30 – 3:30 in room 330. Students of all levels of experience are welcome to come. Please email catapultasciencebls@gmail.com with questions, and we hope to see you soon!
Do you struggle to ask your teacher for help? Have you been out and needed assistance from your teacher to get back on track but did not have the confidence to speak up? Are you someone who just comes to class and leaves when the bell rings? Building a stronger relationship with your teachers is imperative to your success here at Boston Latin School and beyond. Join Ms.Delorme-Metayer for this month’s Strategies for Success Workshop. We will teach students to email communication skills and in-person communication skills to strengthen their student-to-teacher connection. The workshop will be held in room 135 this Thursday, April 7th, 2022 from 2:30 – 3:30 pm. Please email Ms.Delorme-Metayer at rdelormemetayer@bostonpublicschools.org if you have any questions.
The fourth Public Declamation of the school year will take place on Wednesday, March 30th (Day 2) during W-block and possibly part of R3 in the auditorium. Members of Class III will attend the assembly. We request that teachers take attendance and promptly arrive, to start the program as early as possible. We look forward to the performances of the invited student declaimers. Please see the list of participants. Thank you.
docs.google.com/document/d/1jWutsv0-zIZpMoWffcyk2ekQ9FntsXFsw1ZLf6TOp9M/edit?usp=sharing
Many organizations around Boston are now hiring students ages 14+ for summer jobs and internships! Check out the link for an updated list of opportunities.
docs.google.com/document/d/1ild8Rdy8OlCN3cLctdLa0KJCDxOl6oPeKkO56DQ_imQ/edit?usp=sharing
At the end of the unit, AP German students were tasked with thinking of someone, either from their family, their community, or simply someone they know, who has an immigration/migration background, and to tell their story. However, this assignment went beyond a writing assignment. Students needed to show and describe the immigrant’s story by choosing a pair of shoes and when possible decorating these to represent the immigrant’s “path” in life.
There are some very personal stories the students have shared in their writing (the texts are displayed in German and English) and depicted visually, “tread” carefully and respectfully as you read and view them.
Always keep in mind, that there are many roads we and those before us must walk down to become the person we are.
An excerpt from Goethe’s Faust comes to mind when reading these stories:
“There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.”
Come see an encore performance of BLS Theatre’s A Clown Show About Rain on Thursday at 7 pm and Friday at 3 pm in the Black Box Theater before we take it to regionals for the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild Festival on April 2 at 1:30 pm at Wayland High School. Tickets are $3 for students and $6 for adults.
To watch it remotely (though we highly recommend in-person over remote) go to bostonlatin.ticketleap.com/clownshow otherwise get tickets at the door.
Cynthia Wang for Acting
Sam Ringrose for Acting
Creighton Bannit for Sound Design
Ben Zaborski for Lighting Design
Quinn Carley for Stage Management Tegan Trueblood and Mitchell Phesay for Props Design
Bailey Wright and Gwen Trueblood for Directing
Would your service-themed club like to promote your community service opportunities at the upcoming BLS Community Service Fair on April 14? Complete this community service club form if your club would like to participate.