The Owl

Walsworth is now taking orders for the the OECHS yearbook! This initial cost is $55 and will increase in November. Click on (or scan) the QR code below to order!

Women's Tennis:

Congratulations to Elli Stallard for competing in the North Carolina 1A State Championship!

Men's and Women's Cross Country:

The Boy's and Girl's Cross-Country teams will compete at the 1A East Regional Cross Country Championship held at Manteo HS on Oct 31st with races beginning at 10am.

Men's and Women's Wrestling:

Hydration test will be on Friday, Oct 30th, starting at 3pm. 1st day of practice will be Nov 2nd.

We need to submit our applications this week for our schools that were not covered under Free College Application Week.

We will talk about elements covered in this portion of our EPF project as well as some macroeconomics.

There will only be EPF on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

We are back to ACT prep this week and will take a practice test.

With recruitment visits planned in Math I classrooms this week, we will only have Jr Seminar on Monday and Tuesday.

English I Honors (Ms. Hendrix)-Next week, we continue Unit 2: Rhetoric & Research!

Please note that there are upcoming deadlines for Honors Project 2: Poetry Analysis Essay coming up in the next week. The final due date is/was listed within the syllabus provided to students on the first day of school. No late work will be accepted for the rough draft, peer review, or final draft deadlines.

All class due dates and upcoming events can be viewed at the following link:

Honors I English:

Parents can click on any events/due dates within the Calendar to view any additional information and details.

English III Honors (Ms. Meyer)-This week we concluded our study of Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and began our study of selected works by Edgar Allan Poe. Next week concludes our study of Unit with. Please see below for dates for both the Test and Notebook Check. 🎃

Upcoming Due Dates:

- Unit 4 Test – Fri. Oct. 30 (A Day), Tues. Oct. 27 (B Day)

- Notebook Check 4 – Fri. Oct. 30 (A Day), Tues. Oct. 27 (B Day)

Math II Honors (Ms. Seaman)- We will start and finish the Systems Unit this week. We will review linear systems and then learn nonlinear systems by hand and by Desmos, and linear programming. Students should continue to work on their Skills Assignment in DeltaMath.

Precalculus Honors (Mrs. Walsh)- Students will work on a review sheet on Monday covering all of Chapter 5. The test on Chapter 5 will be on Tuesday. Wednesday - Friday will be spent solving real life problems involving non-right triangles and vectors. There will be a weekly assignment due on Friday.

Tutoring is available before school with Mrs. Walsh and in the afternoons with Mrs. Propst. Extra resources are also available on Teams.

Biology Honors (Mr. Springfield)-This week in Honors Biology we continued with the Unit on Ecology. We covered the Biosphere and all the terrestrial and aquatic biomes. We also covered the Conservation and human impact on ecosystems. I hope the students really get excited about the conservation Chapter. We, as a society, need to really become more aware of our environment and do everything in our power to conserve our resources. It is getting pretty close to being irreversible damage we are doing to mother earth. So, REDUCE, REUSE, and RECYCLE. Have a great weekend!

Chemistry Honors (Mr. Stallard)-We are finishing up Unit 7 Chemical Equations and Reactions and will begin Unit 8 Stoichiometry on Tuesday. Please see the due dates below.

-Monday Oct 26 Chemical Reaction Lab

-Monday Oct 26 Unit 7 Worksheet

-Monday Oct 26 Unit 7 Test

AP Environmental Science (Mr. Stallard)-We completed Unit 3 with our test on Friday and will begin Unit 4 Earth Systems and Resources on Monday.

Civics Honors (Mr. Marsh)-We are completing our study of the Bill of Rights and other amendments to the US Constitution. We are reviewing material through Monday and will TEST on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27. Next, we will examine the Supreme Court decisions that support these amendments.

AP World History (Ms. York)- This past week, we discussed the Exchanges in the Indian Ocean and began the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes. Next week, they will do an Activity on Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo, followed by a Bubonic Plague Activity, where they will make connections on the Consequences of Networks and Exchanges. They will read Southernization by Lynda Shaffer to help prepare them for their Socratic Seminar. Their Unit 2 test will be on November 3, 2025.

American History Honors (Ms. York)- This week, they finalized and turned in their Road to Revolutions, and we talked about the agricultural south and the industrial north. Next week they will discuss the Age of Reason and how that impacted the break from England. They will read and answer questions regarding The Olive Branch Treaty, and Thomas Paine's Common Sense. That will end the week on the topic of Stirrings of Rebellion. They will have Scarlet Letter test on October 30,2026.

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"North Carolina House Bill 769 became effective December 1, 1997 and reflects a coordinated statewide effort to motivate and encourage students to complete high school. This legislation requires that a student's driving permit or license be revoked if a student is unable to maintain adequate progress or drops out of school. Adequate progress is defined as passing 70% of all courses and is determined by first semester grades and second semester grades for schools on block scheduling. For schools on a traditional six-period day schedule, grades are determined by first semester grades and end-of-year grades."

Students need to maintain "adequate progress" to remain eligible for permits and licenses while in high school. Each semester, we are to notify students (and the district) when any students are not making adequate progress at the end of a semester/year. Students will then have to earn back the ability to have a permit or license after the next semester's grades are complete (and pay $50 to the DMV to have their permit or license reinstated). Bottom line: Keep your grades up in your high school and college classes or you will lose your driver's permit or license!

October 30th-31st- Cross Country Regionals

November 11th- Veterans Day (No OECHS/CCCC classes)

November 25th-29th- Thanksgiving Break

December 15th-17th- OECHS Final Exams and Biology EOC

December 18th-January 6th- Winter Break

January 18th- Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

February 19th- OECHS Workday (No high school classes and No HW Weekend for high school classes)

March 22nd-29th- Spring Break/Easter Holiday

April 23rd- OECHS Workday (No high school classes)

May 6th- AP World History Exam (8:00AM)

May 11th- CCCC classes end

May 13th- AP Environmental Science Exam (12:00PM)

May 14th- OECHS Graduation (7:00PM @ WOHS Earl Taylor Performing Arts Center)

May 15th- CCCC Graduation (10:00AM @ CCCC)

May 18th-21st- OECHS Final Exams and EOCs

Email: james.strope@onslow.k12.nc.us
Website: https://oec.onslow.k12.nc.us/
Location: R109A, 444 Western Blvd., Jacksonville, NC 28546
Phone: 910-938-6702
Twitter: @OnslowECHS