Virtual Water

Students in grades 8 and 9 are starting a project on virtual water, the water that is used to produce the products that we consume. Cleaning, showering, cooking, and flushing the toilet represent less than 10% of the water we use daily. Over 3000 liters of water is...

Finished!

With great joy – that was almost taken from us with the power outage – we finally finished Spies!!! 9th grade did an excellent job with this text, even following my homework instructions to “not read anything” so we could finish the final...

Characters on trial!

Today Grade 9 completed a “push/pull” activity for the book Spies. Two students posed as Stephen, our main character, who had to decide to stay loyal to or betray each of the other characters, whose arguments for and against loyalty and betrayal were...