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Local Families Helping Local Families… The Mountie Closet needs your help!


If you have noticed your child’s pants getting a little too short or you can suddenly see your kid’s belly when they raise their arms, please consider sending in your child’s gently-used dress code  clothing to help replenish the Mountie Closet. (read more)

 

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Scream
National Poetry Month
The Road Not Taken

April is National Poetry Month and the beginning of spring. After what seemed to be a long winter, poetry makes spring all the more refreshing. In Ms. Amato’s Communication Skills class, students prepared for poetry recitation. Sarah C., a student in Communication Skills, blew the class away with her beautiful recitation of the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. Her visual aid was a fabulous painting that she created herself that portrayed what she believed the poem was about.

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My Inauguration Experience
Capital Building

Would you like to be amongst a crowd of almost 2 million people? My family and I went to Washington D.C. to see Barack Obama become the 44th president of the United States. It was freezing cold. It was more crowded than I ever imagined possible. Trying to walk one block took half an hour of pushing, shoving, and inching our way forward.

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Presidential Inauguration

On January 20, 2009, the 44th President of the United States was inaugurated. A train, the “Obama Express,” made three stops before the President-Elect made it to Washington, D.C. The President-Elect took the same train route that former President Lincoln took in 1861. He traveled to Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and then onto Washington D.C.

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Junior High

About Our School

The Stroudsburg Junior High School includes grades 8 and 9.  The facility provides access to several computer labs, a distance learning lab, library services, and a student run Media studio for morning and afternoon announcements.  Science, Math, English, History and Physical Education/Health are required every year.  Advanced and remedial classes in the academic subjects are offered to students who meet specific criterion.  Eighth grade students participate in a Reading Program.  Academically qualified eighth grade students may elect to take a World Language (Spanish, French or German) and Algebra for high school credit.  Other curricular offerings for eighth grade students include art, career awareness, computer applications, music, technology education and family consumer science.

 

Ninth grade student course selection allows students to select from advance placement, honors, college preparatory, career education, Tech Prep and vocational –technical courses. 

 

A variety of extra-curricular activities are available for the junior high school student to enrich the educational experience.  An activity bus is available for students on Monday, Wednesday and Thursdays.  Students are encouraged to participate in extra-curricular activities.  The Junior High School activities include:  Art Club, Band, Builder’s Club, Chorus, Drama Club, Orchestra, Math Club, Memory Book, Mountie Fitness Pride Program, Show Choir, award winning Science Olympiad team, Student Council, SADD, Spelling Bee, and Ski Club.   Intramural and team sports include Basketball, Golf, Swimming, Volleyball, and Wrestling.