Academic Decathlon

MEETINGS EVERY TUESDAY 2:45 - 3:30 in the Media Center !

http://www.usad.org/ http://usad.org/students/Curr_Outlines.asp

IMPORTANT LINKS BELOW !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF4lPWU_qxY http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/march99/gouges2.html http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/sans_culottes.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY9f1ySZ2kY

Welcome all Young Bright Academics to our School's Finest ACADEMIC DECATHLON TEAM !

Basically this is what we're about: The Academic Decathlon is a team competition wherein students match their intellects with students from other schools. Students are tested in 10 categories: Art, Economics, Essay, Interview, Language and Literature, Math, Music, Science, Social Science and Speech.

LIBERTE, FRATERNITE, EGALITE !

UPDATES...

10/9 - January 30th competition. We will do 2 more weeks of history so that we feel confident with the events and personalities of the French Revolution. Then we'll move to art. We'll start to brainstorm and get going on the speeches in 2 weeks as well so that way we have enough time to write them, practice them, edit them, practice them, re-edit them, practice them. When we do those, we'll keep in email contact to work on them.

Check Out new link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFPsEwV38Q0

10/3- COME ON TEAM ! DECATHLON ISN'T A SOLO ACT, EVERYONE HAS TO CONTRIBUTE AND WORK TOGETHER. THE BETTER OUR TEAM WORK AND COOPORATION, THE FARTHER WE'LL EXCEL !

10/1- Everyone check out the link posted. The first one is a quick youtube. the second is on the Declaration of the rights of man (preamble). Third is on Olympe de Gouges. 4th is on the Sans-culottes. Last is on the Haitian Rev.

9/30- EVERYONE THAT RECEIVED MR.O'S EMAIL DONT FOGET TO WRITE YOUR SENTENCES DOWN FOR THE NEXT MEETING!

9/29- HAD FIRST MEETING TODAY. EVERYONE MAKE SURE TO READ EVERYTHING ON THAT DISK ! MEETING NEXT TUES.