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Literary Characters Social Networking
Students in Linda Vasu's Humanities classes chose a character from one of the second semester novels: Siddhartha, Haruoun and the Sea of Stories, Keeping Corner, My Brother Sam is Dead, A Separate Peace. They fleshed out a profile for their chosen character on our social networking site with images, blog entries, and multimedia files.
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The Siddhartha Cinquain Poems represent the integration of the Humanities and Music Curriculum with Linda Vasu and David Gordon. Utilizing the vocabulary from the book, Siddhartha, students composed their own poems and accompanied them with original music using the performance concepts of vocal technique, instrumental improvisation, form, tempo, and dynamics.
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David Gordon's Music students are studying the music of India with a concentration on the tabla drum.
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7th graders read Herman Hesse's Siddhartha and posted responses to Linda Vasu's questions on their wiki pages.
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Students, parents, and faculty celebrated all the wonderful curricular projects from the first semester. See photos from the event and watch their musical performances below.
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Students in Linda Vasu's classes tweaked their vocabulary while helping feed hungry people around the world. Every time a vistior at www.FreeRice.org properly defines a word, the United Nations World Food Program donates 20 grains of rice.
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Eliza Bobek and Mollie Petzoldt asked their science students to create collaborative class presentations about their study of Symbiosis. Please see their projects below.
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In Linda Vasu's Humanities classes, students read and deconstructed Thing Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. They worked in groups to analyze characters, setting, cultural artifacts and customs, narrative structures and literary motifs from the story and published their findings on a Wiki.
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Interactive Maps of Africa
Students in Heather Denbow's Social Sciences classes were assigned a country in Africa. They were responsible for researching political, economic, historical, and geographical information.
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Integrated Project for The Wind Singer
Students used their Academic Enrichment periods to collaborate on an integrated project. They created a boardgame for the novel The Wind Singer as a final assessment.
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Great Mathematicians Project
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Sabrina Goldberg's math students presented their research projects to the community. Students learned about great mathematicians throughout history, wrote a paper, and shared information via posterboards, models, and props.
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