James F. Byrnes High School

💧 🪲 🐌🔬💧 Mrs. Wright and Mrs Kuronya’s Honors Biology classes sampled macroinvertebrate diversity near the Middle Tyger Library to determine stream health.

🎨CREATIVE FRIDAY🎨
Imagine. Create. Inspire. 🎻 Mrs. Grant’s, orchestra students worked on partner collaborations and analyzed new music. 💃🏼Mr. Thornton and Mr. Cohen’s Colorguard class is learning new choreography for the show. 🧑‍🩰Mrs. Archie’s Dance 1 students worked on World Dance Projects- translating dances from other countries to teach to the each other. 👩🏼‍🎨Every Friday is the day to showcase the "Artist of the Week" in all of Mrs Sheehan's art classes. A goodie bag, art stickers, and the coolest art brush ink pen are some of the perks including bonus points, and art passes. This week we worked in color, design, and creativity. Congrats Jayla! 🖼️Mrs. Long’s Art 2 class worked on their landscape pieces today.

📚 Students Become Authors! Mrs. Hollis’ English classes visited the library this week to show their understanding of George Orwell’s Animal Farm! Students combined their knowledge of the novel, the history of the Russian Revolution and USSR, and English Language concepts like allegory and satire to create their very own "Chapter 11" using Book Creator. It was so much fun seeing students apply what they’ve learned, think critically about Orwell’s message, and put their own creative spin on the story. 📖 We loved having Mrs. Hollis’ classes in the library and seeing their creativity and understanding come to life! 💙 Your Favorite Librarians: Mrs. Dickerson and Mrs. Roberts

✍️ CREATIVE FRIDAY✍️
Imagine. Create. Inspire. 👤Ms. Harris’s English students have been working on their body biographies for Of Mice and Men. Avery and Lydia wanted to share their finished body biography! 🐥Mrs. Wyatt’s Yearbook students created Duck Superheroes! Mrs. Wyatt shared her duck, Delilah the Determined Duck. Delilah’s strengths are persistence and curiosity. Her weakness is that sometimes she quacks before she thinks and quacks over others. How cute!

Today was College Colors Day!!

We would like to welcome Mr. Jemiah Wimphrie to our Support Staff in Study Hall! Welcome to the Rebel family Mr. Wimphrie!

⚛️Discover & Design Thursday — Calculate. Experiment. Create. 🦁 Mrs. Wright’s Biology students are finishing up a lion digestion lab that shows students how proteins are digested into amino acids and then are used to synthesize proteins! They are building their very own protein that is used in the body of consumers! ⚡️Mrs. Graham’s Chemistry students made the ATP/ADP cycle with play dough to show how energy is released. ✖️Mrs. Shirley’s Math students Practiced Factoring and completed their first Benchmark. 📊Mrs. Hedgpeth’s Math students created one-pagers from Unit 2. 🔤Mrs. Grimes Math students worked on a lesson about the key features of quadratics. 🎒 Mrs. Gilmore’s students worked in Collaborative Study Groups.

We would like to welcome Mr. Joseph Whisnant to our Special Education Department! Welcome to the Rebel family Mr. Whisnant!

🌎 WORLD WEDNESDAY 🌎 Speak It. Know It. Experience It. ✍️Mrs. Lopez Spanish classes played charades to practice hobby-related vocabulary! 👑Mrs. Yarmolik’s German 2 classes worked on a modern version of the Cinderella fairy tale. They had to come up with an additional scene and assign roles for an expressive classroom dramatization. 👾Mrs. Martin’s students reviewed by playing Gimkit. 🏫Mrs. Petit’s Spanish 3 Honors students created and presented mini posters of school clubs to the class, in Spanish. The lesson was on "be going to + infinitive". Some of them were: club de baile, ABC de cocina and club de teatro.

There will have an interest meeting for Boys Wrestling Thursday September 3rd at 6:00 in the Byrnes High School Cafeteria. This is for any 7th-12th graders interested in learning more about our wrestling program.

Wear your college colors on FRIDAY for College Colors Day!!

Mark your calendars for:
September 14, Senior IGP Meetings begin
September 24, College Fair at Byrnes

Join HOSA! An informational meeting will be Tuesday, September 8 during FLEX in Room 1159.

Open season for Girls Wrestling will begin Tuesday September 1st. Practices will be in the wrestling room at Byrnes High School. Practices will run 4:00-5:30 on Tuesday, Thursday, and Fridays during the month of September. Freshmen are allowed to ride the activity bus over to Byrnes high school for open seasons workouts. Any girl interested in wrestling must have a current physical and all forms completed on Arbiter. Please reach out to Coach Brandy Green at brandy.green@spart5.net and/or Coach Landon Anderson at landon.anderson@spart5.net with any questions.

We would like to welcome Mrs. Danielle Watkins to our Social Studies Department! Welcome to the Rebel family Mrs. Watkins!

🖥️ Tech Tuesday 🖥️ Power Up Your Future! 🩸 Mrs. Bracken’s PLTW: PBS class did a blood spatter lab to determine height from which blood droplets at a crime scene fell. 👥Mrs. Brinsons webpage design students were tasked with creating a website mockup using Canva. The website had to be focused around a student athlete with an NIL deal. After the students completed their mockup, they were tasked with developing and designing a webpage, from scratch, that depicted their Canva mockup. 🎧Mr. Warren’s Media Tech students ran the Jumbotron during last week’s C-Team/JV game against Dorman. This opportunity is part of a district internship program that gives students real-world experience working in live production through Media Tech. 🎥Mr. Baltz Digital Marketing students finished marketing plans last week on music streaming services.  Students wrote scripts and filmed their advertisements.

Open season for Boys Wrestling will begin Wednesday September 2. Practices will be in the wrestling room at Byrnes High School and will run 4:00-5:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the month of September. Middle school athletes can ride the activity bus over for these workouts. Anyone interested in wrestling can attend these practices. Athletes must have a current physical and all forms completed on Aribiter in order to participate. please reach out to Coach Pruitt at Kane.Pruitt@spart5.net with any questions.

We would like to welcome Assistant Band Director Mr. Harrison Thornton to our Fine Arts Department! Welcome to the Rebel family Mr. Thornton!

🏃 MOVE MONDAY 🏃 Move. Lead. Conquer. 🐶 🍪 ☄️Coach Justus’s AVID 4 students collaborated with the Life Skills Class to draw a dog, step-by-step, they shared cookies their class had baked earlier in the day and then they all went to the gym for some game time.  It was a great opportunity for the AVID seniors to spend some time mentoring other students.

There will have an interest meeting for Girls Soccer Team Tuesday September 1st at 6:00 in the Byrnes High School Cafeteria.