Lisa Swope, coordinator

540 731-3649, ext. 6619

lswope@rcps.org

Students may see Mrs. Swope at Dalton first period (104) and sixth period (108).  She is at Radford High School periods 2-5, and after school.

Beginning this fall, the Gifted Newsletter will be published online only.  It can be accessed through the secondary gifted program Web page :

Go to http://www.artandwriting.org/enter.htm after October 1 for information about the 2010 Scholastic Magazine art and writing awards

Dalton gifted students have received information/permission slips about the December 9 trip to the Science Museum in Roanoke.  Students will participate in an in-museum lab during which they will extract DNA from strawberries!  We also will see a film about the science behind amusement park rides.  Students should bring $3 (exact change) and permission slips to Mrs. Swope when they attend either of the REQUIRED enrichment sessions (Wednesday, Nov. 11, during 5th in the computer lab or after school Friday, Nov. 13, in the computer lab).  Join us!!!

The local gifted advisory committee will meet at the School Board Office on Wadsworth Street at 4:00 p.m. on November 11, February 10, and April 14.  The meetings are open to the public.

Summer Residential Governor's School and Foreign Language Academy information is posted online at http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Instruction/Govschools/SRGS .  Mrs. Swope has shared information with music, drama, art, and foreign language teachers.  She will contact each gifted student (sophomores/juniors) Monday and Tuesday (Nov. 9 and 10) about the academic academies (students who are absent should ask their English teachers for the handout I will leave for them).  The academic academies require students to be in the gifted program (as does the art program).  For other Visual and Performing Arts academies and for complete information, applications, and parents' guides to each of these programs, please visit the Web site above.  VPA completed applications (with letters of recommendation) are due to Mrs. Swope by November 17.  Academic academy and Foreign Language applications are due by December 11.  See Mrs. Swope if you have questions. Foreign language academy information also is available on this Web site (and from your foreign language teacher).

Interested sophomores can tour the SWVGS campus with Mrs. Swope on the afternoon of December 3.  Applications are available after December 3 and are due to Mrs. Swope by February 1.

Dalton students identified in math have been invited to take the American Mathematics Competition exam (AMC 8) in the RHS library on Tuesday, November 17.  You can find practice problems/solutions on the gifted Web page.

Are you a high school student who plans to earn an Advanced Diploma (with Governor's Seal)?  Are you committed to earning fifteen hours of college credit while in high school?  Will you keep a GPA of 3.0 or higher?  See guidance to sign up as an Early College Scholar.  Virtual Virginia AP class tuition and exam fees are waived for Early College Scholars!

And later this year....................

• Barter Players will present The Scarlet Letter for upperclassmen English classes at Radford High School on Feb. 3 (thanks in part to grant funding from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts)!
• Brown Bag Book Club (postponed to second semester due to my bout with H1N1--sorry!)