• PSAT COVER GIRLS & GUYS

  • WELCOME TO THE 2024 PSAT WORKSHOP GALLERY

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

    MUGSHOT MASTERPIECES

  • DAY 1 - Find your table and reach consensus on your label!

    • Sleeping Sharknadoes - Table 1 
    • SLTB Club - Table 2 
    • Pizza Pals - Table 3  combined
    • Olive Haters - Table 4 
    • Sleeping Blue Pizza's Home - Table 5 
    • Cleaning Elves - Table 6 

    Go for the GOLD in PSAT OLYMPIC EVENTS!

    Kudos, plaudits, and encomiums to our current leaders:

            JACKSON RIPPLE                            ANGELA LIN

    Rippel Electrifies Lightning Vocabulary!.      Queen of Kahoots

    Jaw-dropping Jackson really charged up and electrified the room on LIGHTNING VOCABULARY.  He's the last man "Still Standin' " after 3 rounds!   And Assiduous Angela is the UNDISPUTED QUEEN of KAHOOTS!

    All these PERSPICACIOUS PSATers are VERY PUNNY, & they ROCK Mrs. Cooley's P.O.D.s even if we forget to say, "Pretty PEAS!"

    See for yourself...

  • DAY 2 - RIGOROUS WRITING  - 

    Another GREAT DAY is in the books for the 2024 PSAT Workshop. We were all in GRAMMAR JEOPARDY after Mrs. Miller prosecuted us for WORD CRIMES we committed on the May SAT Practice Test.  She sentenced us to do CUPID's GRAMMAR SHUFFLE, giving Mrs. Shiv the perfect opportunity to steal a dance with Jacob!

  • AUDIAL, VISUAL, & KINESTHETIC MATH - Mrs. Cooley followed up with some carpet time where we illustrated & wrote "graphic" math stories. Then we put our graphs into action, dancing the PARENT FUNCTIONS!

    NOTE TO PARENTS: When we play JEOPARDY, team SPOKESMEN identify themselves by wearing silly hats. Table 5's uniquely talented SPEAKER was unsatisfied to wear a mere hat. Rather, he sported a unicorn's head for the entire game! Parent, do you recognize your PSATer?

  • DAY 3 - PJ DAY - MATH JOURNALS & JEOPARDY

    Today we COLLABORATED, and our skills COALESCED. Students tutored students while our caped math crusader -- the one, the only FACTOR GIRL (a.k.a. Mrs. Cooley) -- swooped in and out rescuing those on sinking ships. Although we were in MATH JEOPARDY, together we created a rising tide of math skills which promises to raise all our scores!

    Running down the hall, Violet D. and the Marvelous Mrs. M. led us through a grammar and usage obstacle course. They made DANG sure we didn't trip over those DANG  MODIFERS in that DANG backpack!

    Alas & alack, we miss our dearly departed PSATers. Absentees, we want you to enjoy dance camp, but we can't wait for you to return!

  • Day 4 - WICs, Journals & Jeopardy, Kahoots, & Math Mysteries

    We were really HOT today, literally and figuratively. We "burned" through those WICs. We were all pretty darn WICked (LOL), but Violet was the WICkedest of all! You, go, girl! Take that score "to infinity and beyond."

    When in JEOPARDY--facing all DANG. MODs. & and disagreeing subjects and verbs,-- we were WICked smart with our wagers (especially Table 5).

    And when facing mathematical mysteries, Landon led us to the fairly obvious logical conclusion that none of the rest of us (including cool Mrs. Cooley) could see for ourselves. Great work, Landon!

  • Day 5 - Friday's FRO-day -- That '70s Day! Don't we exhibit SARTORIAL flair? . . . especially MILLIE ANN in those groovy boots and that psychedelic sheath!

    It's also GAME DAY -- P.O.D.s, Cliches, Relays, Lightning Vocabulary, and Trashketball!

    Grayson & Millie Ann are real pea-pickers when it comes to our PSAT Math P.O.D.s.

    Sleeping Sharknadoes & SLBT Club didn't just step up to the plate. They were in a dead heat in our PSAT Olympic Cliche Scavenger Hunt, which ended in a tie . . . which is no surprise  because both Tables 1 & 2 are in a league of their own verbally. . . or should I say, a league of their RUN-ON? 

     

     

  • DAY 5 - WRITING RELAY & LIGHTNING VOCABULARY- Miller called cadence as she led us onto the track. "PREP PHRASE--CROSS OUT! THE YOU DON'T HAVE TO DOUBT!"  Buty Cooley's EVEN-Stevens were off the starting block faster than Miller's ODD-MEN-AND-WOMEN-OUT. The EVENS won the first two heats easily. But the ODDs were proverbial come-back kids in the 3rd, which was NO photo-finish. It was a ROUT! 

    When LIGHTNING VOCABULARY struck, JRip was a casualty; Raine innundated us with correct answers, generating a flood that washed away all opposition.  Until next time, Raine rules!

  • DAY 5 - TRASHKETBALL - PSATers proved more adept at slam-dunking the math questions than at "trashing" the ball, but that's OK b/c there's no trashketball hoop on the PSAT -- just questions!

  • DAY 6 - PICKLES & PUNCH brought to you by LOVELY MRS. LEE

    We chased ELUSIVE ALLUSIONS, translated PHONETICALLY DEFINED TERMS, practiced logic with THREE PSAT GODDESSES, and enjoyed a little advice  given by Perspicatious PSATers from the past.  

     

  • DAY 7 - APPLES & ORANGES 

    Our "COOL" logic goddess walked us through a FRUITFUL lesson by translating an abstract problem into a concrete dilemma. ORANGE you glad she let us manipulate the variables as well as visualize them? The unicorn kid NO-AHs and will SHOW-US how to get the answer with a little help from JRip and LD. No SECOND BANANAS here! These young men are all TOP BANANAS in our PSAT FRUIT BASKET!

    AO

    JRip, LD, and the Unicorn Kid get right to the core of the logic problem!

  • DAY 8 - PEOPLE ON THE PSAT

    Our Perspicacious PSATers demonstrated SARTORIAL FLAIR and ACTING ACUMEN as well as SCINTILLATING INTELLECT in our PEOPLE YOU MEET ON THE PSAT Contest.  They illustrated sophisticated SAT vocabulary through costume & character.  

    Can you tell which is the legitimate MONARCH or SOVEREIGN and which, the USURPER and likely DESPOT or DEMAGOGUE?

    MONARCH  USURPER

                     MAGGIE                                                                                    CADE

    Can you tell which is the CONJURER or PRESTIDIGITATOR likely to ENCHANT and ENTHRALL you and which, the PACIFIST or CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR likely to DISSENT and PROTEST BELLIGERENT foreign policy?

    pacifistconjurer

                   REESE                                                                                       JULIA

    Can you differentiate the PLUNDERER who LOOTS & PILFERS with a band of MISCREANTS & MALEFACTORS in the Wild, Wild West and the CONTENDER who PILFERS spherical objects so well that he's likely to make TEAM USA and PILFER them in PARIS? 

    contender  plundeer

                       LANDON                                                                              GRAYSON

     

    In the BLOOPERS CONTEST, we impersonated our PEDAGOGUES, grading papers filled with EGREGIOUS ERRORS. Then we analyzed our own FAUX PAS & EGREGIOUS ERRORS on READING TEXTUAL COEs and WRITING SENTENCE STRUCTURE. Then in DESMOS Carpet Time with AMELIORATED errors in both in our calculations and on our calculators.  Yes, we were PROLIFIC and made PRODIGIOUS progress. . . even if we weren't quite as "fruitful" as yesterday! LOL!

  • DAY 9 - "PUT UP OR SHUT UP" DAY - RW TEST SIMULATION,  THE AMAZING RACE, & READING JEOPARDY

    Put or shut up was the order of the day! We "threw down" on an RW test simulation. We engaged in an AMAZING RACE to the finish on Mrs. Cooley's MATH SCAVENGER HUNT. Then we put ourselves into READING JEOPARDY with Mrs. Shiv.,  testing our ability to make TIMELY TRANSLATIONS, to express UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE, & to distinguish that which is EASILY CONFUSED.  What a day!

    Coming tomorrow--OLYMPIC FINALS, SKITS, and the OFFICIAL PSAT WORKSHOP AWARDS CEREMONY!

  • DAY 10 - PSAT OLYMPIC FINALS 

    We journaled our errors on the RW test, worked our way through FINAL READING JEOPARDY, and competed in a rousing WRITING RELAY, which ended in an upset!

    ULTIMATE WORKSHOP!

      --"Shut Up" & "Clean up" -- BINDERS!

      --PSAT Olympics Awards Ceremony

      --STRIKE the SET - Load Binders & Take Down the Table

      --PSAT Chicks "Fly the Coop"

  • DAY 10 COMMERCIAL BREAK - SKITS

    We used SAT vocabulary in cleverly composed commercials designed to entertain as well as to ELUCIDATE! See FRENZIED PROCRASTINATORS improvising costumes and METICULOUS planners POLISHING their performance in our PRECURSORY procedures & practice.

    PRECURSORY PROCEDURES & PRACTICE

  • SKIT 1 - DOGGIE, DO!

     

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  •  SKIT 2 - SHOO! Shoe  

    2c

     

  • SKIT 3 - PEE-YEW!

    3a

  • SKIT 4 - UNI-CORNY

    U2

     

  • SKIT 5 - JAWS 6,000,000

     

    5b

     

  • DAY 10 . . . We took a moment of SILENCE to honor our dearly departed rubber chicken, Santa Claws (a.k.a. Saint Chick), who was a casualty of skit-related violence.

     

    PSAT OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS

    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!  

    ...DRUMROLL

  • MCHS PSAT OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS 

    Olympic Gold

    TEAM EVENTS                  

      BIG BOARD JEOPARDY  

          WRITING - TABLE 4 & 5

          MATH - TABLE 4

          READING - TABLES 1 & 5  

      WRITING RELAY - MILLER'S COME-BACK KIDS    

      TRASHKETBALL - "EVEN"BALLS

       CLICHES - TABLE 1 & 2

       THE AMAZING RACE - MATH SCAVENGER HUNT - 

                 MILLIE ANN PACZAK, CADE SHAW, & JACKSON RIPPEL

        FRUITY LOGIC - Apples & Oranges - a.k.a "BUH-NAY-NAYs"

              JACKSON RIPPEL, LANDON DALE, & NOAH CLAPPER

        VERY PUNNY - TABLES 1 & 5

    INDIVIDUAL EVENTS

      GRAND CHAMPIONS               

       WRITING GOLD MEDALIST - ALEX LEE

         READING GOLD MEDALIST - MILLIE ANN PACZAK 

         MATH GOLD MEDALIST -  MILLIE ANN PACZAK (Math Mama!)   

      PODS 

          GOLD "KEYS PEAS" - JACKSON RIPPEL & GRAYSON DAVENPORT 

         SILVER  "CROC-STARS" - MILLIE ANN PACZAK & FAYE JU

     

      ONE-A DAYS

          WTW / FLO WORD PUZZLER - KINSEY WILLIAMS

          MYSTERY MAVENS  

               GOLD - ANDREA WICK, SILVER - NOAH CLAPPER, & BRONZE - ANGELA LIN   

           QUEEN of KAHOOTS  - GOLD - ANGELA LIN (Hammertime - Nobody can touch Angela!)

        LIGHTNING VOCAB - GOLD - RAINE MONCRIEF & SILVER - JULIA KIM & JACKSON RIPPEL  

          L2 L1 L3    

        BEST COSTUME & CHARACTER-

              BEST BARBIE - THAT '70s DAY - GOLD - MILLIE ANN PACZAK

                POPs - GOLD - "GIDDY-UP" GRAYSON DAVENPORT 

                             SILVER - MAGGIE MCKENZIE & ALEX LEE

                             BRONZE - *CASHEL CUNNINGHAM                   

          ODDS & ENDS 

                TCOB - TAKING CARE OF BUSI-MATH! - LANDON DALE

                  GIDDY-UP! -  GRAYSON DAVENPORT

                  GLOW-UP! - COURTNEY HEWITT

                  HOLLA Peña, Girl - MILLIE ANN PACZAK

                  BALL OF FIRE - VIOLET DANIELS & FAYE JU

                  UNIQUELY UNI-CORNY - NOAH CLAPPER

                  FANTASTIC FROGGIES - ALLY MATTERN, FAYE JU, & KINSEY WILLIAMS

                  SUPERGIRL - EGREGIOUS ERRORS - REESE RUHL

                  WHOOPIE CUSHION - (LOTS of HOT AIR) -CADEN MCKENZIE

    "BIG DILL" AWARD - APPRENTICE PEDAGOGUE - MRS. JANIE LEE

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    ALACK and ALAS, "PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW." 

    SAVE THE DATE: Practice SAT in cafetorium from 8:45-noon on Sat., Aug. 3, 2024.

    Be sure to complete Meltzer's Critical Reading Lessons & Exercises 9 & 10, KAHOOT your 201 Words, and get the "JUMP" on your fall MVP VOCABULARY QUIZZES.

    J1

    "JUMP" - GUYS

    J2

    "JUMP" - GALS