2023 PSAT Workshop Gallery
PSAT COVER GIRLS & GUYS
WELCOME TO THE 2023 PSAT WORKSHOP GALLERY
We IDENTIFY weaknesses & DRILL skills to ELEVATE scores, improving the APPEARANCE of your college & scholarship applications!
Click links to see animated ads featuring Betsy and Taylor. Aww, c'mon. It'll be ELECTRIFYING & FUN-ky!
Click this link for a very special message to a very special YOU from a very special girl. She's a NONPAREIL -- a real PARAGON of perfection and a HARBINGER of PSAT vocabulary to come!
I've been waiting for like 500 years to wish you a -- NO! NOT happy birthday -- rather, happy PSAT Workshop! I'd get up and do a little happy dance if only da Vinci had given me legs!
MUGSHOT MASTERPIECES!
We WORK hard & PLAY hard! Does it look like we're having fun?
MUGSHOT MASTERPIECES
Day 1 : Word Crimes - Cupid's Grammar Shuffle & Lightning Vocabulary
DAY 2: WRITING & READING - JOURNALS, JEOPARDY, & & SKIT-i-licious TIME!
MATH - MATH STORIES & UPTOWN FUNKY FUNCTIONS DANCE
DAY 3: PAJAMA DAY - JOURNALS / JEOPARDY /"CARPET TIME" / CIRCUITS / TEST PSYCHOLOGY
FIXED MINSET - "I can't do that."
GROWTH MINDSET - "I can't do that YET."
. PJ Fashionista Champs -- Kids with real sartorial flair!
Reigning Writing Jeopardy Champs
DAY 4 - WRITING & VOCABULARY RELAYS
CURRENTLY IN 1st PLACE - COOLEY'S TEAM
RELAY ROUND 1 - Cooley's COOLEST lead the pack!
DAY 5 = THAT 70's DAY
THESE FOXY LADIES & COOL DUDES have boss 70's SARTORIAL flair! Can you dig it? It's a gas!
YOUR PSAT PEDAGOGUES all have LITERAL rather than FIGURATIVE experience with 70's days!
CLICHES & CALCULATOR CARPET TIME & A "CHILLY" BLAST FROM THE PAST -- It might give you the "Shivers."
DAY 5 - GEOMETRY BALL, ROUND 1 - You'll be amazed when you see how much fun math is when it's on a beach ball instead of a worksheet!
DAY 6 - PERIPATETIC PSATers PERAMBULTE to the LIBRARY
It takes more than a power outage to knock us out!
DAY 7 - "EXACTLY"/"AT LEAST" LOGIC, MATH JEOPARDY, READING & WRITING "CARPENTRY" - Text Structure & Purpose (function) & Sentence Structure, and "GETTIN' SKITTY WID IT!"
Day 8 - MOD. 2 MATH, LIGHTNING VOCABULARY (It's an electrifying experience!), TESTIMONIALS @ 10, & READING & WRITING RELAYS
SPECIAL GUESTS - PSAT ALUMS - Annalise Kirk, Tom "Ariel" Adcock, "Boiley" Powell, and some dead dude looking for James
Day 8 Procession and Relay - Shiv's Scintillating Sprinters Take the Lead!
DAY 9 (the PENULTIMATE day) - TESTIMONIALS! PSAT PRODUCE -- APPLES, ORANGES, & BUH-NAY-NAYs! COMMA KAHOOTs, &POPs!
On the PENULTIMATE (next to the top) day at PSAT Workshop, we tested & confirmed this claim: It's way more fun to do fruity logic, kahoot our commas, and dress up & act out POPs than it is to do a worksheet!
Day 10 "Clean Up"
PSAT WORKSHOP IS GETTIN' SKITTY WID IT!
Perspicacious PSATers showcase their voluminous vocabularies is a hilarious series of silly skits -- FAUX COMMERCIALS!
WHAT?? NO POPCORN??
Actors, talk loud! Audience, be respectful!
SKIT 1 - MOVIE TRAILER for the fabulous feature film -- PSAT WORKSHOP!
Written, directed by, & starring Isabelle, Liv, Wes, Andrew, & Sara
Discover the perils of PSAT by following the zany antics of these PERSPICACIOUS PSATers and their rather eccestric PSAT Pedagogues.
--Can you guess who's playing the role of which PSAT Pedagogue?
SKIT 2 - "PIZZA POPS" CEREAL COMMERCIAL -- It's full of not-so-subliminal messages. See the signs!
Written, directed by, and starring David, Stone, Lillian, Miriam, Chaney, & Jeremy
SKIT 3 - CELL PHONE COMMERCIAL - "This phone is literally OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD in a parallel universe!
Written, directed by, and starring Paisley, Kensely, James, Carrington, and Gabe
SKIT 4 - DR. PEPPER COMMERCIAL - Just what we all need in this heat -- a refreshing, reinvigorating libation to slake our thirst!
Written, directed by, and starring Betsy, Lola, Jack, Mathew, and Ryan
SKIT 5 - TENNIS SHOES COMMERCIAL - Luke (the paragon of "court"-ly virtue) endorses them, and Emily (our very own chanteuse) sings their praises . . . figuratively, of course!
Written, directed by, and starring Emily, Luke (or is that Novak Djokovic? maybe John McEnroe?), Braxton, & Marcus
PSAT OLYMPIC AWARDS DAY
DAY 10 - ULTIMATE PSAT WORKSHOP!
--"Shut Up" & "Clean up" -- BINDERS! Big Pic/Details, Grammar Quiz B, & Math Jeopardy
--Gettin' Skitty Wid It!
--PSAT Olympics Awards Ceremony
--PSAT Chicks "Fly the Coop"
DAY 10 - PSAT OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS
TEAM EVENTS:
JEOPARDY
WRITING - Skit Group #1
MATH - Skit Group #??
RELAYS - WRITING/READING -
SHIV'S SCINTILLATING SPRINTERS
GEOMETRY BALL - ODDS
TABLE EVENTS:
CLICHES - Table: #1 QUANTUM PIGLETS
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS
GRAND CHAMPIONS
WRITING GOLD MEDALIST - Paisley A.
READING GOLD MEDALIST - Carrington B.
MATH GOLD MEDALIST- Ryan W. - Cooley's LUCKY CHARM
PODS: GOLD- James P., SILVER - Ryan W., & BRONZE- Matthew B.
ONE-A DAYS
WTW / FLO - Ryan W.
MYSTERY MAVENS -
GOLD - Liv M.; SILVER - Lola W. (readers)
Honorable Mention - Kensley H. & Gabe H. (writers)
Undisputed KAHOOTS KING - Gabe H.
LIGHTNING VOCAB - Betsy B. = our "Game On" Girl
BEST COSTUME - Betsy B. & Jeremy R.
POPs - EVERYONE EXCELLED!
We tattooed those for whom we found fitting ink.
ODD BALLS
Cool's LAUDABLE LOGICIANS: NOT mutually exclusive!
TOP BUH-NAY-NAY: Luke R.
- NECESSARY, but not
- SUFFICIENT. Gotta' recognize both!
APPLE OF MY EYE: Paisley A. -
Mill's SUPERLATIVE "TOAD" - James P.
Shiv's ROCK - Stone S.
PREMIUM PSAT PEDAGOGUE IMPERSONATORS
COOLEY-est: Sara S.
Most MILLER-tant: Andrew C.
Gives-me-the-SHIVERS: Isabelle P.
MOST IMPROVED - Emily H. and Liv M.
SPIRIT OF PSAT - Betsy B. & Emily H.
See our "Winners! Winners" --some of whom got "Chicken Dinners" or shakes @ Chic-fil-A-- for yourself!
If we LOOK like we're having FUN, it's b/c we ARE!
PSAT Workshop: A Re-AWARD-ing Experience!
JIBJAB VIDEOS - PSAT Video Parodies
CAVEAT: These silly songs & stories are just for fun. Please take them with the proverbial "grain of salt." We hope you enjoy our quirky sense of humor. We do not intend to offend!
Also, you'll note the pictures & links have been rearranged in response to popular demand. A thousand pardons for arranging them horizontally on the computer screen when most of you are scrolling vertically through single columns on your cell phones.
LEARN TO WRITE YOUR SKIT SCRIPT BY COUNTEREXAMPLE
Click HERE to watch Ryan, Andrew, and Marcus in JOWLS!
Click HERE for Luke & Lillian to show you what NOT to do with your skit script.
Click HERE for Mathew, Sara, Stone, & James to show you what NOT to do with your skit script.
Click HERE to watch Luke at HAMMER TIME.
I FEEL GOOD
Click HERE to see how good Michael feels about PSAT!
Click HERE to see how good Wes feels about PSAT!
Click HERE to see how good Marcus feels about PSAT!
Click HERE to see how good Lukel feels about PSAT!
PREVIEW OF THAT '70s DAY
DISCO DANCING
Click HERE to watch Paisley & Marcus dance.
"I GOT YOU, BABE" -- NOT so DISCO!
Click HERE to watch Emily and Wes sing.
Click HERE to watch Andrew & Lillian skate.
Click HERE to watch Ryan & Paisley skate.
Click HERE to watch these groovy chics dance. They're really mod!