Our class count for the 2012/2013 Support Drive stands at 65%.There is still time to get your envelope in
and show your support for our School!
MCS back ground screening the web site is up and running. If you would like to be a chaperon for any field trips this year you must complete this screening. Please stop by the library Monday - Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. -- Friday 7:30 a.m. to 8:25 a.m. - or - Monday - Friday 2:35 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. It only takes a few minutes to enter your information. Once completed MCS can take up to two to three weeks to approve an application. Please do not wait until just before a field trip. Even if you completed the screening last year you must do it again - we have to renew each school year.
Skate Night - Friday, August 31st - Cordova Skate Center - 5:15 to 7:15 - The Skate Center closes to the public during this time. This is a private party for Campus students, teachers, friends and family. Plan to join the fun!
Grandparent's Day - September 7th - look for more information to come home soon.
We are having a great year so far! Have a wonderful weekend. Below is some background information about our next class novel.
Chris Brabson is full of hate. He hates the Yankee soldiers who are camping in his beloved Tennessee woods; he hates their snotty Northern ways and their belief that they know what's best for the South; he hates that they've taken all of his family's food to feed their own troops. And he hates that his own brother has joined the Union side of the war when, to Chris, it is clear that the Confederacy is the side to fight for. When his hatred proves more powerful than good sense, Chris spies for the Confederates, revealing that a Union wagon train is camped in a valley near his home - and his brother is probably in that train. Caught in the bitter battle at dawn, Chris discovers that in war, nothing is clear-cut-good and bad are equally laid to waste by the horrors of the battlefield.
WILLIAM O. STEELE (1917-1979) published thirty-nine books over his long career, many of them award winners. A native of Franklin, Tennessee, he set many of his historical adventures in the hills and valleys where he grew up.
