WELCOME TO THE 2023 PSAT WORKSHOP GALLERY

We IDENTIFY weaknesses & DRILL skills to ELEVATE scores, improving the APPEARANCE of your college & scholarship applications!

Click links to see animated ads featuring Betsy and Taylor. Aww, c'mon. It'll be ELECTRIFYING & FUN-ky!

BETSY STRIKES LIKE LIGHTNING!

UPTOWN FUNKY MATH

PRACTICE - IT'S UP TO YOU!

Click this link for a very special message to a very special YOU from a very special girl. She's a NONPAREIL -- a real PARAGON of perfection and a HARBINGER of PSAT vocabulary to come!

Message from Mona

I've been waiting for like 500 years to wish you a -- NO! NOT happy birthday -- rather, happy PSAT Workshop! I'd get up and do a little happy dance if only da Vinci had given me legs!

MUGSHOT MASTERPIECES!

We WORK hard & PLAY hard! Does it look like we're having fun?

Day 1 :  Word Crimes - Cupid's Grammar Shuffle & Lightning Vocabulary

DAY 2: WRITING  & READING - JOURNALS, JEOPARDY, & & SKIT-i-licious TIME!  

             MATH - MATH STORIES & UPTOWN FUNKY FUNCTIONS DANCE

DAY 3: PAJAMA DAY - JOURNALS / JEOPARDY /"CARPET TIME" / CIRCUITS / TEST PSYCHOLOGY

      FIXED MINSET - "I can't do that."

     GROWTH MINDSET - "I can't do that YET."

.                           PJ Fashionista Champs -- Kids with real sartorial flair!                  

                                        Reigning Writing Jeopardy Champs                    

DAY 4 - WRITING & VOCABULARY RELAYS

   CURRENTLY IN 1st PLACE - COOLEY'S TEAM

DAY 5 = THAT 70's DAY

THESE FOXY LADIES & COOL DUDES have boss 70's SARTORIAL flair! Can you dig it? It's a gas!

YOUR PSAT PEDAGOGUES all have LITERAL rather than FIGURATIVE experience with 70's days!

CLICHES & CALCULATOR CARPET TIME & A "CHILLY" BLAST FROM THE PAST -- It might give you the "Shivers."

DAY 5 - GEOMETRY BALL, ROUND 1 - You'll be amazed when you see how much fun math is when it's on a beach ball instead of a worksheet!

DAY 6 - PERIPATETIC PSATers PERAMBULTE to the LIBRARY

It takes more than a power outage to knock us out!

DAY 7 - "EXACTLY"/"AT LEAST" LOGIC, MATH JEOPARDY, READING & WRITING "CARPENTRY" - Text Structure & Purpose (function) & Sentence Structure, and "GETTIN' SKITTY WID IT!"

Day 8 - MOD. 2 MATH, LIGHTNING VOCABULARY (It's an electrifying experience!), TESTIMONIALS @ 10, & READING & WRITING RELAYS

SPECIAL GUESTS - PSAT ALUMS - Annalise Kirk, Tom "Ariel" Adcock, "Boiley" Powell, and some dead dude looking for James

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DAY 9 (the PENULTIMATE day) - TESTIMONIALS! PSAT PRODUCE -- APPLES, ORANGES, & BUH-NAY-NAYs! COMMA KAHOOTs, &POPs! 

On the PENULTIMATE (next to the top) day at PSAT Workshop, we tested & confirmed this claim: It's way more fun to do fruity logic, kahoot our commas, and dress up & act out POPs than it is to do a worksheet!

PSAT WORKSHOP IS GETTIN' SKITTY WID IT!

Perspicacious PSATers showcase their voluminous vocabularies is a hilarious series of silly skits -- FAUX COMMERCIALS!

     WHAT?? NO POPCORN??

      Actors, talk loud! Audience, be respectful!

SKIT 1 - MOVIE TRAILER  for the fabulous feature film -- PSAT WORKSHOP! 

Written, directed by, & starring Isabelle, Liv, Wes, Andrew, & Sara

Discover the perils of PSAT by following the zany antics of these PERSPICACIOUS PSATers and their rather eccestric PSAT Pedagogues.

    --Can you guess who's playing the role of which PSAT Pedagogue?

SKIT 2 - "PIZZA POPS" CEREAL COMMERCIAL -- It's full of not-so-subliminal messages. See the signs!

Written, directed by, and starring David, Stone, Lillian, Miriam, Chaney, & Jeremy

SKIT 3 - CELL PHONE COMMERCIAL - "This phone is literally OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD in a parallel universe!

Written, directed by, and starring Paisley, Kensely, James, Carrington, and Gabe

SKIT 4 - DR. PEPPER COMMERCIAL - Just what we all need in this heat -- a refreshing, reinvigorating libation to slake our thirst!

Written, directed by, and starring Betsy, Lola, Jack, Mathew, and Ryan

SKIT 5 - TENNIS SHOES COMMERCIAL - Luke (the paragon of "court"-ly virtue) endorses them, and Emily  (our very own chanteuse) sings their praises . . . figuratively, of course! 

Written, directed by, and starring Emily, Luke (or is that Novak Djokovic? maybe John McEnroe?), Braxton, & Marcus

DAY 10 - ULTIMATE PSAT WORKSHOP!

  --"Shut Up" & "Clean up" -- BINDERS! Big Pic/Details, Grammar Quiz B, & Math Jeopardy

  --Gettin' Skitty Wid It!

  --PSAT Olympics Awards Ceremony

  --PSAT Chicks "Fly the Coop"

DAY 10 - PSAT OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS

TEAM EVENTS:                  

  JEOPARDY  

     WRITING - Skit Group #1

      MATH - Skit Group #??

  RELAYS - WRITING/READING - 

      SHIV'S SCINTILLATING SPRINTERS

  GEOMETRY BALL - ODDS

TABLE EVENTS: 

  CLICHES - Table: #1 QUANTUM PIGLETS

INDIVIDUAL EVENTS

  GRAND CHAMPIONS               

    WRITING GOLD MEDALIST - Paisley A. 

     READING GOLD MEDALIST - Carrington B.

     MATH GOLD MEDALIST-  Ryan W. - Cooley's LUCKY CHARM      

  PODS: GOLD- James P., SILVER  - Ryan W., & BRONZE- Matthew B.

  ONE-A DAYS

      WTW / FLO - Ryan W.

      MYSTERY MAVENS - 

           GOLD - Liv M.; SILVER - Lola W.  (readers)

           Honorable Mention - Kensley H. & Gabe H.  (writers)

       Undisputed KAHOOTS KING - Gabe H. 

    LIGHTNING VOCAB - Betsy B. = our "Game On" Girl

    BEST COSTUME - Betsy B. & Jeremy R.

    POPs - EVERYONE EXCELLED!

          We tattooed those for whom we found fitting ink.

      ODD BALLS

        Cool's LAUDABLE LOGICIANS: NOT mutually exclusive!

            TOP BUH-NAY-NAY: Luke R. 

                        - NECESSARY, but not 

                        - SUFFICIENT. Gotta' recognize both!

             APPLE OF MY EYE: Paisley A. -

         Mill's SUPERLATIVE "TOAD" - James P. 

         Shiv's ROCK -  Stone S.  

   PREMIUM PSAT PEDAGOGUE IMPERSONATORS

          COOLEY-est: Sara S.

          Most MILLER-tant: Andrew C.  

          Gives-me-the-SHIVERS: Isabelle P.                           

   MOST IMPROVED - Emily H. and Liv M.              

   SPIRIT OF PSAT - Betsy B. & Emily H. 

 See our "Winners! Winners" --some of whom got "Chicken Dinners" or shakes @ Chic-fil-A-- for yourself!

     If we LOOK like we're having FUN, it's b/c we ARE!

JIBJAB VIDEOS - PSAT Video Parodies

CAVEAT: These silly songs & stories are just for fun. Please take them with the proverbial "grain of salt."  We hope you enjoy our quirky sense of humor. We do not intend to offend!

Also, you'll note the pictures & links have been rearranged in response to popular demand. A thousand pardons for arranging them horizontally on the computer screen when most of you are scrolling vertically through single columns on your cell phones.

LEARN TO WRITE YOUR SKIT SCRIPT BY COUNTEREXAMPLE  

Click HERE to watch Ryan, Andrew, and Marcus in JOWLS!

Click  HERE for Luke & Lillian to show you what NOT to do with your skit script.

Click HERE for Mathew, Sara, Stone, & James to show you what NOT to do with your skit script.

Click HERE to watch Luke at HAMMER TIME.  

I FEEL GOOD             

Click HERE to see how good Michael feels about PSAT!

Click HERE  to see how good Wes feels about PSAT!

    Click HERE to see how good Marcus feels about PSAT!     

Click HERE to see how good Lukel feels about PSAT!

PREVIEW OF THAT '70s DAY

DISCO DANCING                                        

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Click HERE to watch Paisley & Marcus dance. 

"I GOT YOU, BABE"  -- NOT so DISCO!   

 Click HERE to watch Emily and Wes sing.              

Click  HERE to watch Andrew & Lillian skate.

Click HERE to watch Ryan & Paisley skate.

Click HERE to watch these groovy chics dance. They're really mod!