CCHS IB Program Newsletter

November 7, 2024 Vol. 7, Ed. 3, Pg. 1

Coordinator’s Notes Upcoming Dates

Dear CCHS IB Families,
November 15 – IB Gives Back
The month of October was certainly not what anyone expected with being out of school for a week Luncheon, 12:30-1:30pm, CCHS
due to Hurricane Milton. I hope you and your families remained safe and that your homes were OK. Cafeteria, a celebration for all
Please never hesitate to reach out to us if we can support your students or family with needs, students who participated in the
especially in times like this past hurricane season. Our counselor, Mrs. Toadvine, and many of our fundraiser
students wanted to give back after the storms. You have probably heard about our project “IB Gives
Back.” As an IB school we want to “Think Globally, Act Locally.” This project is a fundraiser we are November 25-29 – NO
organizing to raise money for an elderly couple who were significantly impacted by the recent SCHOOL, Thanksgiving Break
storms. Each IB student is encouraged to raise $20 to bring in so that as an IB family we can raise
$8,000. We are holding a luncheon next Friday, November 15th, to present the couple with a check. December 9 – CCHS Open
You can see the story that Wink news aired about our project here. House for 8th grade students,
6:30pm, CCHS Auditorium
We had our homecoming week the week of October 21st. It is always fun to see the students dress
up for theme days and participate in activities such as powderpuff, the pep rally, and the December 20 – Early Dismissal
homecoming game and dance. I hope your students had a great time celebrating our homecoming!
December 23-January 3 – NO
As we move into the month of November I always like to reflect on what I can be thankful for. SCHOOL, Winter Break
Research has shown that giving thanks can make you a happier person. It is not always easy to
see past struggles, but focusing on gratitude can greatly benefit your health and increase your January 6 – Full Day of School,
resilience. I encourage you to take time during this month of Thanksgiving to have a conversation modified from a professional
with your family about what you are grateful for and ways you can creatively express your gratitude. duty day after Hurricane Milton

As we move into December we are looking forward to our 8th grade school choice open houses. We January 10 – End of Quarter
have our CCHS open house on December 9th and our CCHS IB open house on January 14th. If you 2/Semester 1
have or know of any 8th grade students in the west zone please encourage them to attend our open
houses! It’s always exciting to meet new potential students and their families and to speak with January 14 – CCHS IB Open
them about what our program can offer. House for 8th grade students,
6:30pm, CCHS Auditorium
Senior Families - Your students have been doing an amazing job with their college applications!
Many are finally done! There are still some priority deadlines and regular deadlines that our CAS Scholarships
students are working towards. We have been encouraged by many of them coming to the IB office
to ask us questions about their applications and get transcripts sent. Please let us know how we
On Tuesday, February 25th, we
can continue to help your students with this process and support them as they focus on scholarship
will be holding our annual IB
applications.
Senior CAS Scholarship Night.
For this event we are seeking
The end of 1st semester is now January 10th. Mrs. Toadvine and I will be checking in with students
local business/organizations to
who had Ds, Fs, or multiple Cs in 1st quarter and discussing plans with them to be more successful
donate $500 scholarships. If you
in 2nd quarter. Please know that we do offer peer tutoring with our upper classmen IB students that
have or know of a business or
students can sign up for in the IB Google Classroom if they need assistance. Students can also get
organization that would be willing
help with math on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-7pm via Connect with LEE which they can
to donate a scholarship please
access on their district launchpads.
reach out to Mrs. Uhler. Our goal
is to be able to award at least 12
Every day I am so grateful to have the opportunity to work with your children and with you. The
scholarships to IB seniors for their
students regularly inspire me with their inquiries and their plans to act in school, in their extra
outstanding work with their IB
curriculars, and with their future plans. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
CAS (Creativity-Activity-Service)
Sincerely, portfolios. These scholarships
will be awarded by the donors at
our event during which the
seniors will showcase their CAS
Katelyn Uhler, IB Coordinator
experiences.
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Counselor Notes
Hello parents! It’s hard to believe that October is over and we are into November with the holidays quickly approaching. Our Seniors
have been working diligently on their college applications – please know that if any assistance is needed or if there is anything I can do
to support your child, do not hesitate to call or email. Dr. Travis-McCarter is our college and career specialist and is a wonderful
resource; she has an open-door policy. We are encouraging students to meet with her to especially discuss scholarship opportunities.

I have had the opportunity to work with our IB students in raising money for hurricane victims, Tom and Mary Ann. Students who raise
$20 or more and hand in the money by the 13th, will be invited to a luncheon on November 15th, at which Tom and Mary Ann will be in
attendance. It will be a valuable experience for the students to present them with a check and collectively engage in the “gift” of giving
back.

I am so grateful to be a part of the IB family. I look forward to getting to know all of the students and IB parents. I am thankful for the
warm welcome I have received from you and am honored to be a part of this program. Mrs. Uhler and the IB teachers work so hard to
support the students through this program and it is such a pleasure to be a part of the team.

Thank you – Caroline Toadvine – IB School Counselor

Classroom Notes
9th Grade
FL Pre-IB English 1 - Unit 2 is called "The Call to Adventure." Students will read multiple forms of literature (fiction, nonfiction, and
poetry) and recognize how individuals learn from a journey. At the end of the unit, students will use these examples to write an
expository essay using the prompt: "What can we learn as we journey through life?"
Our first journey was "The Power of the Hero's Journey," where student learned about Joseph Campbell's iconic archetype of
storytelling that holds true from Greek mythology through the latest superhero film! As part of the lesson, students used board games
created by Mrs. Williams's classes.
Please be aware that our Unit 3 topic is called "Declaring Your Genius." I want to give you all some advance notice that your student will
need a book for our unit book study: Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell. They will need to have this in class by
Wednesday, January 15. They do not need to read over the holiday break! Thank you all for your support of your students—they are
doing great! Amy Myers
Geometry Honors - We started on the Unit 4 that is related with Triangle Congruence. This Unit is connected with other Units, meaning
that while we learn something new, we also review and understand better the material. Topics includes rigid transformations and
congruence; prove triangle relationship; prove triangle congruence; solve congruence problems; and justify triangle congruence. Grades
are updated weekly, make sure to check Focus to see if the student is completing homework. Thank you for your support.
FL Pre-IB French 1 – Students are learning how to conjugate -er verbs. We will be beginning a chapter on "la famille" next week.
Students will be able to identify family members and describe them using adjectives.
FL Pre-IB Spanish 1 – Students are working on Lesson 2 “En la clase ''. The students are learning how to form questions in Spanish.
During this month students will learn to describe the location of people and things using the present tense of regular verbs and the verb
ESTAR (to be). They will also use numbers 31 and higher to solve math problems and tell years of important events.
FL Pre-IB Art – Students completed scratchboard artwork and have begun a lesson on colored pencil and color theory. There are
several upcoming local art competitions that I am encouraging students to enter. Details can be found on google classroom or email me
if you have any questions. [email protected]
10th Grade
AP English Language & Composition – Students started Q2 with a project that tracked Joseph Campbell’s 17-step “Hero’s Journey”. We
created board games to illustrate how archetypal scenarios convey universal themes in literature. In addition, we are studying
argumentative reading/writing with specific focus on the Big Idea: evaluation of claims/evidence. By now, students should be on pace to
complete their first annotation check for this quarter’s independent text: “Outliers: The Story of Success” on Friday 11/22. Please save
the date for the upcoming 10th grade ELA F.A.S.T. Progress Monitoring 2 on Thursday 12/5.
FL Pre-IB Spanish 2 - Students are working on Lesson 2 “La comida”. The students are learning to describe food using the present
tense and preterite tense. During this month, students will be learning how to order food in a restaurant. They also will learn to make
comparisons of inequality and equality of people and things.
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Classroom Notes
10th Grade (continued)
FL Pre-IB French 2 - After wrapping up how to use the partitive, students will be learning how to conjugate in the past tense using the
helping verb "être", then completing activities to help determine when to use "être" or "avoir". They will also be exploring the
background of November 11th, comparing and contrasting how it is observed in France, Canada, and the United States.
AP Psychology – We are over hallway through Unit 2 (Cognition) and will be starting content on thinking and decision-making, as well as
intelligence.
FL Pre-IB Art – Students completed scratchboard artwork and have begun a lesson on colored pencil and color theory. There are
several upcoming local art competitions that I am encouraging students to enter. Details can be found on google classroom or email me
if you have any questions. [email protected]

11th Grade
AP English Literature & Composition - The juniors just completed their second interactive oral in class last week and they have much
improved from our first one! They are gaining confidence in their analysis and speaking skills. We are starting the study of Their Eyes
Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston this week. We will do much of the reading together, but I have posted a reading schedule in
Google Classroom just in case we do not get to all the reading in class. Please check with your students to make sure they are on track!
IB Math Applications & Interpretations 1 – We are finishing up Topic 3 – Geometry and Trigonometry, then moving onto Topic 4 -
Statistics and Probability.
IB Chemistry 1 - This month we are working on our third unit, Stoichiometry. The topics in this unit are heavy on calculations! Students
watch example problems for homework, and we use class time to work on lab investigations and practice problems from past IB exam
papers. This can be a tough unit for some students, and they should reach out to me about tutoring after school or during TOK Study
Hall.
IB Biology 1 – Students are currently learning about metabolism, cell respiration, and photosynthesis. We will be making our own soda
demonstrating anaerobic respiration, and chromatography with spinach leaves.
IB Environmental Systems & Societies 1 – Presently we are covering sustainable and unsustainable practices involved with our natural
resources, such as water, waste disposal, fishing, and forestry.
AP US History – We are finishing up our Unit 4: 1800-1848. We will test on the unit during the week of 11/11. We are also working on
writing our first DBQ (document-based question) which is an essential writing portion of the AP test in May. It is worth 25% of the overall
score for the test. Our next unit is 1844-1877 and covers the events leading up to and including the Civil War. These are very large units
that cover some major events and students should be reading the additional resources provided. Thank you! Mrs. Powella
IB French 4 - Students will be introduced to the different text types used in the IB writing exam, then will be creating a brochure following
a prompt related to tourism. They will also be reviewing many grammatical structures as well as verb tenses when reading about and
discussing topics related to the theme of 'Experiences".
IB Spanish 4 - The students are evaluating the reasons why human beings look for new experiences and how the new experiences
change our lives. Grammar: The present perfect tense.
IB Psychology 1 – We are over halfway through the Biological Approaches to Behavior unit and will work on crafting strong SAQ and
LAQ responses.
IB Business Management 1 – Students completed the first unit of the course. They have just begun working in the Human resources
unit. We are currently on a pretty consistent schedule. Study guides are due every Wednesday. Case studies are due at the start of
class on Thursday. This is important so they can participate in peer grading. Vocabulary quizzes are on Friday.
IB TOK 1 – We are wrapping up our final lessons in TOK about the relationship between knowledge, technology, and language. On
November 11, students will begin working on the rough draft of their TOK Exhibition in class. This will be the first Internal Assessment
that students complete for the IB Program. It is important that they use class time wisely, but they will also need to work on their
Exhibition commentaries at home. The rough draft will be due on Friday, December 20 at the end of the school day. There will be tasks
due each week to make sure students are working diligently on the assignment. Also, the Quarter 2 CAS benchmark should be met by
Friday, December 6 (have one completed CAS experience and have an approved second proposal).
CAS – Juniors will be completing and submitting their first CAS experience. Students should begin another experience before the first
ends. There should be no gaps in between CAS experiences.
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Classroom Notes
12th Grade
IB English Literature 4 - We are just wrapping up A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and will begin My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You
She’s Sorry by Fredrick Backman. This is a contemporary fiction is a work in translation with themes of hope, forgiveness and
embracing differences. It is a longer novel and we will finish it up just before winter break. Seniors also have the HL Essay FINAL draft
due on December 2nd.
IB Contemporary History – IA Rough draft sections 1-3 must be submitted online by 11/10, a printed copy must be submitted by
11/11. Continuing with Paper 2 Authoritarian
IB Math Applications & Interpretations 2 – The rough draft of the IA was due on 11/4, continuing to work in Topic 2 – Functions.
IB Chemistry 2 - We are working on Unit 10 Acids and Bases. Students will learn about the definitions and properties of acids and bases
and how acid rain forms. Students also have 7 days in class before Thanksgiving to test the equipment and chemicals they will need for
their Internal Assessment experiment. Students will spend an entire school day collecting data in the lab during the first week of
December.
IB Biology 2 - Students are finished collecting their data for their biology IA. This will be due before winter break. We are currently
studying human anatomy, homeostasis, and hormones.
IB Environmental Systems & Societies 2 – Presently we are practicing IB Essay writing and preparing for exams while refreshing
content learned last year.
IB French 5 – Students began working on a new unit entitled "Sharing the Planet." They are continuing to work on their reading, writing,
speaking and listening skills as we discuss this topic. Students will also work one on one with me to practice their speaking skills. This
will take place during class so it is extremely important for student to be present.
Spanish 5 - The students are exploring the social and environmental aspects that represent a challenge for our planet. Grammar:
present subjunctive, present perfect and pluperfect.
IB Psychology 3 – Students have finished learning new content in Human Relationships and are now currently reviewing this section.
IB Business Management 3 – Seniors are finishing up the unit on Finance. We will take a break from the content to complete their
Internal Assessments. This should be finished prior to the Thanksgiving break.
IB Visual Arts 3 – Students are busy creating artwork for their upcoming exhibition. The opening is scheduled for March 28th. The final
draft of the comparative study is due Nov. 11th. It should be submitted on both classroom and Turnitin.
IB TOK 2 - We have started discussing the prompts for the TOK essay. Students will have 6 prompts to choose from. From this they will
write their TOK assessment essay.
CAS - Seniors should begin looking through their portfolios to see what areas need to be addressed. Over the course of the 18 months
there should be a balance among the three strands. So, they may need to add experiences accordingly. Also, they should look at which
learning outcomes need addressing.

IB seniors visited the IB office to celebrate recent SAT scores!

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Program Photos

IB Seniors in Chemistry played a review

IB Juniors worked in groups in TOK to evaluate a TOK
game at the end of October.
Exhibition exemplar. Students will be turning in their own
exhibition rough drafts on December 20th.
CCHS Pre-IB 9th grade welcome breakfast

Students in Pre-IB Spanish 1 worked on conjugations of -ar- present tense verbs.

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Program Photos

CCHS IB students and staff met with Wink News reporter Claire
Galt about the IB Gives Back fundraiser.

Scratchboard art created by Pre-IB 10th FL Pre-IB English 1 students played Hero’s Journey board games
grade student Allison O’Boyle. that the AP English Language & Composition students made.
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Student News
Written by members of the IB Ambassadors Newsletter Committee

Powderpuff – Avril Wenk - On Tuesday, October 22, CCHS hosted its annual game of Powderpuff. Essentially, Powderpuff is football
but with a twist; the girls play on the field while the guys cheer them on. The event started off with a close game between the freshmen
and juniors, with the juniors winning by one point. The subsequent game was between the seniors and sophomores, with the seniors
coming out on top. For the finale, Class of 2025 and 2026 went head-to-head, in a fierce game; flags were ripped, people fell,
touchdowns were scored, but in the end, the seniors were the victors. Overall, the game was fun for all parties involved, with IB junior
Keira Baxter saying, “it was a fun learning experience,” and many other players sharing the same sentiment.

FL Pre-IB Sophomore Board Games in AP Language & Composition – Adalyn Ferrence - Mrs. William’s AP Lang class has finished
analyzing the common ground for the structure of mythological and fictitious stories in literature. To better comprehend the steps to a
hero’s journey, students were tasked with creating a board game that reflected the 17 common steps the stories go through. Students
were given 2 days to curate their board games using cards, boards, and costumes. On October 31st, students played the games
created by their classmates. Afterward, they voted on which they believed best represented the steps to the hero’s journey while also
being the most interactive.

Other News
IB Tutoring – IB Ambassadors are available to tutor underclassmen students in a variety of subjects. If your student would like to be
assigned a tutor please have them complete the Google Form which was posted in the IB Google Classroom. Tutoring schedules will
be agreed upon once the tutor is assigned and can be in person or virtual.

News-Press Athlete of the Week – Congratulations to IB Senior Emma Best who was voted as the Athlete of the Week for October 21-
26 for her outstanding swim performance!

Band – Congratulations to the Marching Seahawks who competed in an outdoor music festival at Tarpon Springs High School. They
placed 9th in the 1A Division! Color Guard and Rifle Line won 6th place! They were also awarded the prestigious Esperit De Corps
award which is for the band that exemplifies comradery, honor, enthusiasm, kindness, and true sportsmanship. The band also recently
participated in a Music Performance Assessment (MPA) and they received Superiors in Music 2, General Effect, and Color Guard.

Bowling – Congratulations to our girls and boys bowling teams who both won district championships and traveled to Orlando for states
last week! One of our Seahawk boy bowlers was the state champion!

Swim – Congratulations to our girls and boys swim teams! They both placed 2nd at the district meet and had 23 swimmers advance to
regionals last week. IB senior Emma Best was the regional champ in the 100 fly and junior Reily Rountree was the runner up in diving!
We will be sending 12 swimmers off to states today!

Cross Country – Congratulations to our boys cross country team who came in 2nd at districts and our girls who came in 5th! They both
qualified to compete at regionals which they will be heading to today.

Golf – Congratulations to Pre-IB 9th grade student Steven Bobovnik who placed 6th overall at the district tournament and advanced to
regionals. Congratulations to our girls golf team which included IB seniors Evalyn Klein and Abby Hawkins and Pre-IB freshman
Teegan Nichols – they placed 2nd at districts and advanced to regionals!

AP School Honor Roll – Cape Coral High School was named an AP Honor Roll Bronze school for having 40% or more seniors take at
least one AP exam during high school and 25% with a score of 3 or higher on at least one exam. CCHS was one of only two public high
schools in Lee County to earn an AP School Honor Roll designation!

Global Studies- Our campus community garden aka: Bella Verde Farms has completed a build of 15 greenhouses and implemented the
10 hydroponic towers pairing with culinary to prepare for fresh greens for Cape High School staff and café.