6th Grade News: 3/11/22
Humanities: This past month in Social Studes, students engaged with our content through primary source exploration, role-playing activities, and discussions about current events. To learn more about the mythology behind Rome’s founding, we read an excerpt from the classic Latin epic poem The Aeneid. The language was sophisticated and complex, but students did a great job reading closely and rewriting the text in their own words. Our class has also experienced ancient Roman life for ourselves by getting into character — which students love! For example, we spent one lesson acting as “plebeians” (commoners) and “patricians” (upper class citizens) in... Read More
March 11, 2022
HUMANITIES 7th graders of been working on two concurring projects in Social Studies and English Language Arts. In Social Studies, students have been researching different ways in which housing insecurity affects our society and our communities. They have diligently been finding useful information to incorporate into letters that they are writing to inform and exhort people not to sit idly by while this problem persists. They are presenting some of their findings to the rest of the school next week while culminating the supply drive they’ve organized. In ELA, 7E and 7F have just begun the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing... Read More
Interview with the 2021 Covenant Grantees: Jews of Color Engagement, Within and Beyond our Walls
The New Class: Interviews with the 2021 Covenant Grantees in The Covenant Foundation’s online journal, Sight Line. Hannah Senesh Community Day School – To create a culture of belonging for Jews of Color by developing curricula, community programming, and a multicultural camp through the lens of equity and inclusion. What sparked the idea for this grant project? “Community” is more than our name—it’s our identity. Since 1995, Senesh has been committed to creating a community that reflects the evolving Jewish world where all Jews feel a sense of belonging. This work has matured as we’ve deepened relationships and intentionally worked to... Read More