Plantation High School

“Plantation High School prides itself on excellence. We foster it, build it, and celebrate it!” -Susan R. Bruining, Principal

The mission of Plantation High School is to meet the diverse needs of its multicultural population through a unified effort whereby producing responsible, contributing citizens while providing an education balanced by academics, career programs and extra-curricular activities.

The Plantation Innovation Zone is comprised of Plantation High School, Plantation Middle School, Peters Elementary School, Mirror Lake Elementary School, Sawgrass Elementary School and Central Park Elementary School.

Congratulations to Jamie Aquino and her students for winning the 2008 Doors to Diplomacy Award. The Department of State announced the selection of two winning websites. Co-sponsored by Global SchoolNet, the awards recognize the websites that best teach young people about the importance of International affairs and diplomacy. There were more than 190 entries from 38 countries.

The two winning sites are:
PierPier -developed by a team of students from Plantation High School. The website raises awareness of the threats to marine environments.

The Fight Against radiation -developed by a team of students from the Joan Ekzarh Language School in Vratsa, Bulgaria. Their site investigates the relationship between nuclear energy and ecological issues.

Each student on the PHS team will receive a $2000 scholarship and the winning coach receives a $500 cash award.

Summer work and reading lists are available for downloading here.

All students enrolled in AP Government and Politics or AP Psychology during the 2008-2009 school year should visit www.dishowitz.com to download and print the course syllabus and summer work for each class. Please see Guidance to check out the requisite textbooks. All work is due the first day of class.

Students who are taking AP Art History in the Fall should contact Ms. Rine at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Students taking AP Human Geography in the Fall should already have summer work material from Ms. Lustig This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Plantation High School’s Summer “Teen Read” List
 
A Long Way Home – by Ishmael Beah
Avalon High – by Meg Cabot
A Thousand Splendid Suns – by Khaled Hosseini
Boot Camp – by Todd Strasser
Christopher Killer, The – by Alane Ferguson
City of Bones –  by Cassandra Clare
Deadline – by Chris Crutcher
Firestorm – by David Klass
Incantation – by Alice Hoffman
Life As We Knew It – by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Nature of Jade – by Deb Caletti
Street Love – by Walter Dean Myers
Thirteen Reasons Why – by Jay Asher
What Happened to Cass McBride? – by Gail Giles
Wicked Lovely – by Melissa Marr

From the Booklist for Reluctant Readers. 

Class Pictures – by Jock Reynolds
Glass – by Ellen Hopkins
Graffiti, L.A. – by Steve Grody and James Prigoff
Homeboyz – by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Quaking – by Kathryn Erskine
Safe – by Susan Shaw
Thalia Belleza!  - by Ariadna Sodi Miranda
Thin – by Lauren Greenfield and Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Tupac Shakur Legacy – by Jamal Joseph
Unwind – by Neal Shusterman

Booklist's Top Ten:

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian – by Sherman Alexie
The Arrival – by Shaun Tan
Before I Die – by Jenny Dowdham
The Invention of Hugo Cabret – by Brian Selznick
Mr. Pip – by Lloyd Jones
Tamar – by Mal Peet
Your Own, Sylvia – by Stephanie Hemphill
American Shaolin – by Matthew Polly
Champion of Democracy – by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin
A Long Way Gone – by Ishmael Beah

School Library Journal recommends:

Home of the Brave – by Katherine Applegate
Tasting the Sky – by Ibtisam Barakat
An Inconvenient Truth – by Al Gore
Slam – by Nick Hornby
Evil Genius – by Catherine Jinks
Undercover – by Beth Kephart
What They Found:Love on 145th Street – by Walter Dean Myers
Red Glass – by Laura Resau

My journalism students and I are working on an international awareness campaign to help wild dolphins and manatees.  We are also raising money to fund a high school and conservation project in Haiti.  Our website is www.pier2pier.net.

Jamie Aquino