by Liz JURKOWISKI | Oct 24, 2017 | Grade 8, Humanities, Secondary History, The Grades, Uncategorized
Wrapping up the unit on Africa, G8 students wrote essays demonstrating their knowledge of African culture, geography and history. They spent the week working on their rough drafts in class, and turned in the final copy on Tuesday.
by Meghan KENNEY | Oct 12, 2017 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Humanities
Grade sevens have been investigating into some very remote parts of the world, and creating a promotion to try to get people to immigrate to their destination. As part of this, they have to demonstrate an awareness of the pushes and pulls with why people stay or leave...
by Liz JURKOWISKI | Oct 9, 2017 | Grade 8, Humanities, Secondary History, The Grades, Uncategorized
Grade 8 Humanities students are creating, directing, and starring in their own movies about early African civilizations. After a week of research and creating, their homemade movies are wrapping up. Students have learned that history is not always about dates and...
by Liz JURKOWISKI | Oct 4, 2017 | Grade 8, Humanities, Secondary History, The Grades
Students in G8 Humanities are learning that writing skills are valuable in all disciplines. This week the students became experts of African geography and culture. To demonstrate this new knowledge, they were asked to write about what they learned.The goal is to move...
by Liz JURKOWISKI | Sep 21, 2017 | Grade 11, Grade 8, Humanities, Secondary History, The Grades
G8 Humanities took their first unit test today and looked confident and ready! They now are experts on physical geography and ocean ecosystems. Way to go grade 8! G11 IB History students also finished their first unit on the Renaissance and Reformation today with a...
by Todd DAVIS | May 4, 2017 | Grade 9, Humanities, Secondary History, The Grades
Solving complex global issues calls for us to listen to a wide-range of perspectives so we can pull the pieces together, make connections and extensions to our thinking, and begin identifying possible scenarios and courses of action. To that end, G9 students have been...
