National Bullying Prevention Month

Bullying is a major cause of absenteeism at all grade levels. Let's help stomp it out together! 🙌.

Here is a quick run down from our AD, Coach Appleton:

• Boys and Girls XC teams won their league and Bergen county group championships.
• Girls won the state sectional championship!🥇

• Fergie Onate Avila won the individual state sectional championship🏃🏻‍♀️
• Emmanuel Marin and Ana Michel won their county group individual championships!🏆
• Emmanuel Marin and Fergie Onate Avila won the individual league championship!🏅
• Bogota girls XC took 3rd in the Bergen county meet of champions. They are only the 4th team in group 1 history to finish top three in the meet of champions in the history of the race
• XC will race at Greystone Saturday in the state sectional meet🏃
• Volleyballs Emma Fowler got her 1,000 kill and they will begin their playoff games on Monday 4:15 home Vs. TBD. They currently have a record of 19-4 and will be the three seed in the NJSIAA Playoffs🏐🥇
• Soccer won their senior day game⚽🏆

Marching band has just performed in the 78th annual North Jersey Band festival, continuing to be the only band in the festival present for all 78 years. Production of our music video has started and jazz band practices have commenced on Tuesdays.

This year’s marching show is without a doubt the best show of the last 4 years featuring the theme “The Evolution of Hip Hop” including Superstition by Stevie Wonder, Hey Ya by OutKast, Fireball by Pitbull, and Crazy in Love by Beyonce.

We are so proud of the launching of our new CTE building. Thank you to all the community members who came out to support. Special shout out to Board President Miranda, and our esteemed Board members for helping to make this amazing project possible. Special recognition to our Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Kennedy, our Business administrator Mr. Evcil, our Facilities administrator Mr. Cano, and to our Supervisor of CTE & Special Projects, Ms. Rachael Carletto💜

Assignment: Identify PC components and breakdown a chromebook/re assemble to test functionality. Rudra, Renan, and Denzel (pictured below) have some damaged Chromebooks we procured from IT and are troubleshooting issues with the devices with the hopes to return them back into circulation 10/30/25.

Step into the world of healthcare with our Medical Pathway we will be adding to our CTE programs next year. Students will explore the foundations of medical science, gain hands-on experience with real-world skills, and discover the wide range of careers available in the healthcare industry. From patient care and anatomy to medical technology and ethics, this program prepares future professionals to make a difference in the lives of others.

For Hispanic Heritage Month, our Printmaking class has been creating some amazing calavera prints inspired by El Dia de los Muertos. They focused on incorporating pattern, color and symbolism throughout their designs.

Our 8th graders explored the rich tradition of mosaic art, from ancient Roman floors to Byzantine icons and beyond. They were then tasked with creating their own digital versions using Google Drawing app. Well done!

-Mr. O'Boyle

The Drama Club has been working hard to pull together our fall show. We finished staging our scenes and now our actors are working towards memorizing their lines. Costuming, Set and prop building, and lighting / sound cues are being made with our advisors and students working hard towards completion. Everyone is excited to perform our production in our new Auditorium! Our Seniors also had a great outcome for their Bake Sale. We will be doing two more November 17th and 18th to advertise for our show.

Students completed their first project which was to create a design of their name using the Photoshop knowledge and skills they have developed thus far along with utilizing Elements of Design. Afterwards, we began learning about selection tools to understand how to isolate, edit, and collage images. Currently students are working on their next project which will be to utilize these new skills to create a collage that symbolizes their personality and interests through images.

Students have been expanding upon their knowledge from Graphic Arts 1 by learning about the Principles of Design which are key to creating compelling compositions in any visual work. Students applied their knowledge of these design principles by creating a graphic image that is representative of themselves as an individual and designer for their “About Me” page of their portfolio sites. By the end of the year, students will have a complete and professional portfolio to showcase their design work to potentially receive jobs/apply to colleges with. Currently, students are learning how to design in 3D utilizing the program Blender.

Students continued exploring how to come up with a cohesive vision for future fashion designs and finished their mood board project which they created within the industry standard design software, Adobe Photoshop. Currently, students have been developing their knowledge of garment styles while simultaneously developing their fashion illustration skills. We are now starting a new project that requires students to apply this garment design knowledge and illustration skills to design a 5 piece fashion collection of their choosing.

Ms. Atempa's 8th Gr. ELA students finished reading “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs. Our main focus was identifying foreshadowing, mood and writing techniques to build suspense. We are starting our last short story of the unit, “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl. Her Creative Writing students wrote 100 word sagas and submitted them for potential publication in the Young Writers anthology. Now we are working on free verse poetry about autumn.

• Baranello - Starting to read American Folklore. We are currently reading "Raw Head and Bloody Bones." We put the descriptive writing to use to draw what we though Old Betty looked like. We will be doing another drawing of Raw Head when we complete the story. Next will be "The Headless Bride."
• Feliciano - We are learning stem changing verbs, past tense of SER and IR and how to write a persuasive essay.
• Jerman - English 10 students are reading "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. The students are reading parts and also learning about Puritanism.
• King - In Resource ELA we have been working on grammar, active reading skills, and SRSD writing skills. Concepts covered in grammar so far have included: dependent and independent phrases, and simple, compound, and complex sentences). In reading, students have been working on a modified version of the Short Stories Unit that the general education classes have been doing. We have been focusing on identifying the elements of fiction, characterization and foreshadowing. For writing, students have started learning the parts of the POWER-TIDE-LLLC writing cycle to learn how to self-regulate when given a prompt to respond to. For POWER-TIDE-LLLC students are using Achieve3000 articles and working on non-fiction responses.

Mr. De La Cruz:

• Topics covered

• World History: Revolution (American, French, Latin, and Haitian) and Absolutism and Enlightenment periods; planning for a group project concerning their favorite Revolution.

• US History I: Foundations of the USA (Constitution, Articles of Confederation); planning on a group project concerning the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

• Monthly celebrations:

• Hispanic Heritage: completed a project about a country study (culture, religion, and history)

Ms. Duchensky:

• Topics covered

• Social Studies 8: discussed the migration of humans around the world and how the shift from hunting and gathering to the domestication of plants and animals led to the creation of cities and civilizations as well as the Sumerian civilization in Mesopotamia.

• Zombie-Based Geography: examined how physical landforms and climate patterns influence where and how people live and created mental maps of our neighborhoods and the world.

• Monthly celebrations

• Hispanic Heritage: daily quotes from Hispanic people in various professions

Mr. Siddiqi:

• Topics covered

• AP Human Geography: Cultural Diffusion and watched Ms. Marvel to apply the concept of human migration; currently working on population trends.

• Pre-AP US I: completed the unit on the Trans-Atlantic Trade system, including the enslavement of people, and starting to discuss the French and Indian War.

• AP US History II: completed the Progressive Era and working on a review, based on Colonization to the Progressive Era; students will have an opportunity to create a slideshow of this era to present to the class.

• AP Comparative Government and Politics: students were given a list of pre-approved political films to choose one to view. They will be working on a film review, based on their selected film, to show how the concepts and terms in class applied or popped up in the film. Students will complete this project and present it to the class.

• Monthly celebrations:

• Hispanic Heritage: discussed well-known Hispanic people from various countries and professions

Mr. Varon:

• Topics covered

• US History I: early American colonies and the regional differences, as well as the ideas that will influence the founding fathers.

• US History II: completed the Progressive Era and are moving onto WWI. They focused on the presidential administrations of T. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson and watched a documentary to show how American cities grew and helped attract immigrants to America.

• Monthly celebrations

• Hispanic Heritage: discussed the influence of Spain in the New World, including St. Augustine and the Caribbean.

In Ms. Adam's class, students love working on solving equations with variables on both sides.

"Their love for math is growing...exponentially!" Mrs. Grom's Algebra I students turned exponential functions into color-coded artwork in this fun blend of creativity and calculation.

Ms. DeAngelis: This week in our 8th grade math resource class we are learning how to solve different types of equations. This includes one and two step equations, multistep equations with variables on one side and both sides, and equations with special solutions.

Mr. Maeng: Students in Algebra 2 classes explore math concepts of function transformations and arithmetic sequence and series. After each lesson, we have time to practice by completing IXL assignments for each concept.

Mr. Straut: students in AP Calculus have been doing well and excelling on learning about derivatives and how to calculate them. AP Stats has been working

Ms. VanTine: period 8 geometry worked on learning different geometric vocabulary

Mr. Kordosky's classes continue to challenge and fascinate our buccaneers in the world of Science:

Anatomy: Pre-test, body types, feedback loops, and their components. Homeostasis: Disease vs illness. Vectors and risk factors for disease. Basic chemistry review, Inorganic molecules, cell structure and function.

AP Biology: Carbon’s versatility. Organic molecules. Structure and function. Cells

Forensics: Developing observation skills. Recording a crime scene. Types of photographs, Chain of Custody. Search Patterns. Locard’s Principle, Interviewing witnesses. Direct and Physical Evidence.

Engineering: Challenge 1 “One letter Logos” Challenge 2 “Free-hand versus Crating” 2 point perspective. Scale drawings.

Honors Integrated Biology: Scientific method to solve the Cafeteria Dilemma. Types of data, variables. What happens to your hypothesis? Theories and Laws. Basic Chemistry, using the periodic table. Water’s importance.

Ms. Kaur's students are having a great time with Integrated Biology and Nutritional Science!

Integrated Biology: Reaction patterns, photosynthesis (lab), cellular respiration (lab), leaf anatomy & identification, seed identification, observing patterns in atmospheric CO2, assessment, molarity (concentration), pH Scale.

Nutritional Science: Food stories, origins of hummus, nutrition in the news, 5 mins of science ppts, food & kitchen safety, food safety federal agencies, cooking terms, reading & using recipes, where does it grow, apple cultivar, genetic engineering in food agriculture.

Dr. Murphy discusses how the brain controls behavior in her AP Psychology class.

AP Psychology: How the brain controls behavior. Sleep and dreams and states of consciousness. Activities; nature neurons, playdoh brains, celebrity brain project.

H integrated Chemistry I: Atomic structure and isotopes; scientific measurements - scientific notation, significant figures, dimensional analysis for unit conversions; introduction to electron configuration.

Chemistry I: Atomic structure and isotopes; scientific measurements - scientific notation, significant figures, dimensional analysis for unit conversions; introduction to electron configuration.

Chemistry in the Community: Atomic structure and isotopes; Organization of the periodic table; graphing trends in periodic properties.

Ms. Henriquez's 8th graders are studying the engineering design process of parachutes🪂and airplanes🛫 in her STEM classes. Her integrated science classes are going over net force.

Ms. Majumder's students are solving free-fall problems and studying projectile motion!

Hons. Physics:

● Solving Free Fall ( Dropped from rest and Thrown with initial velocity) problems.

● Free Fall Lab: Find “g” experimentally - to measure the acceleration of a falling object assuming that the only force acting on the object is the gravitational force.

● Horizontal Projectile - to find horizontal range, Time of flight & Velocity of impact & angle of impact

● Motion in Two dimension: Intro to Projectile Motion

Integrated Physics

● Motion along vertical direction : Free Fall [Dropped & Thrown]: solving simple problems

● Horizontal Projectile: to find horizontal range, Time of flight & Velocity of impact

● Qualitative approach towards two dimensional motion

Essentials of Physics:

● Free Fall : Dropped from rest

● Solving problems to calculate height, Time of Fall & Final Velocity while dropped from rest

● Qualitative approach of Two dimensional motion- Projectile Motion.

To celebrate Season 5 coming out November 26th, we would like to share our Stranger Things comic and graphic novel selections available to us through our school library Comics Plus account.

Both students and teachers may check out these eBooks through their school Google Account. There are five Google Slides worth of Stranger Things eBooks, and to open and start reading them, all you need to do is click on the book of interest.

Any questions, or difficulties accessing these links provided, please feel free to email me anytime.

Stranger Things eBook Selection LINK

-Ms. Hochgesang

This month, we continued to celebrate Hispanic Heritage by featuring books set in the Caribbean Isles and Latin America. With Halloween around the corner, our Library book displays were both Supernatural Horror themed with a book graveyard, and surrounded our Mystery novels with Caution tape due to their depth of crime fiction. Along with these displays, we selected books about India to celebrate Diwali and Hindu Heritage Month. On October 10th, we featured a special Mental Health Awareness book display as well. The sticker mosaic is coming along, and students are really enjoying the new Marble Maze structure. Our Book of the Month was “In the Hall with the Knife,” a CLUE mystery by Diana Peterfreund. We also have new bookmarks, vinyl for our vinyl cutter, and new games that our students have been enjoying using.

2 of our seniors, Elizabeth Gushekim and Shaylie Tzep wrote this together and Elizabeth painted all of the illustrations in the book. I'm getting my copy, so be sure to get yours through this easy link!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FYQXL1Z9?psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp

"The Cat-Tastrophe in Purrington: Inspiring book about the environment, recycling, teamwork, & STEM + beautiful original, hand-painted illustrations. Perfect gift for kids, cat lovers, & early learners "

In this 100th year homecoming celebration, s'mores special edition, we'd like to feature are very own Mr. Brian Appleton. Coach Appleton graduated from Bogota Jr./Sr. High School with the Class of 2005. Coach Apps was hired as coach at Bogota, 13 years after graduating as a three-sport athlete, then continuing his playing career at Montclair State. He spent some time as an assistant football coach, and a physical education teacher in Oak Ridge in Orlando, Florida. Ultimately, Coach Appleton could not stay away from Bogota and returned in 2018 as our football coach, physical education teacher, and physical education department chairperson. Coach Appleton was promoted this year to become our new Athletic Director and we could not be more proud of him.💟