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April 7, 2022

6th Grade News: 4/8/22

Humanities These past few weeks, students worked hard to write, edit, and polish their Rome research essays about a wide range of topics, including Roman engineering, architecture, art, and more. They should be proud of their final drafts; for most of them, it’s the longest essay they’ve ever written at 6-8 paragraphs! Students also learned how to adapt ideas from research and cite their sources responsibly, writing both in-text citations within the body of the essay as well as a complete and properly-formatted bibliography at the end of the essay. I’m sure you’ve seen your child working hard on their...
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8th Grade in April

Happy April and Happy Spring to everyone! Humanities Over the past few weeks, 8th Grades have concluded their study of the nonfiction novel Just Mercy, in which lawyer Brian Stevenson defends his clients on death row. The students ended the unit with a discussion-based Socratic Seminar that they led completely independently. Students did a wonderful job questioning and dialoging with each other in a respectful manner on a contentious and controversial topic! Students are now reading Maus by Art Spiegelman and we are studying the Holocaust in history class. Using curriculum from Facing History’s Holocaust and Human Behavior unit, students...
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