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"I dreamt a dream! What can it mean?"
William Blake, "The Angel"
After reading and analyzing David Almond's Skellig, students in Linda Vasu's Humanities classes chose an excerpt from this lyrical novel to illustrate with original sketches and watercolors.
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Iris Pagan had her science students document a recent experiment. Students used dominoes to simulate how neurons send signals to each other.
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Great Mathematician Project
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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For a unit on poetry analysis, students in Linda Vasu's class learned terminology for deconstructing a poem in order to come to an understanding of its meaning. In addition to identifying the speaker and situation, students looked for key words, images, binary structures and themes. After analyzing poems by Robert Frost in small and whole group discussions, each student chose a poem, wrote a short essay and thesis statement and selected or drew images to accompany their reading of the poem.
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 David Gordon and his music students investigated one of the main percussion instruments of India: The Tabla. Using the Indian Tabla and other world percussion instruments, the students constructed their own compositions. Each student followed a rubric to guide them through the following single musical forms as their framework for their pieces: A B (Binary Form), A B A (Ternary Form) A B A C A (Rondo Form), and A B A C A B A (Rondo-Sonata Form).
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Iris Pagan has her science students examining cells, pH, light, fish, and all sorts of elements in their hands-on lab work. Click below to see the students in action.
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Earth Awareness Newsletters
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In science class, Iris Pagan's students collaborated on newsletters to raise awareness of various environmental action issues taking place around the globe. Read their newsletters below.
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Siddhartha Graphic Novels
 Linda Vasu's Humanities students retold the story of Siddhartha using their own words and illustrations.
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 Click the image to read student postings on the Siddhartha blog.
 Click the image to read student postings on the Gandhi blog.
Click the image to read the student postings to the My Brother Sam Is Dead blog.
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7th graders worked tirelessly to complete their study of Benin with an academic and entertaining exhibition including drumming, singing, short films, disease studies, graphs, art displays, and a multitude of shared information.
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Adam Hinz orchestrated a 7th grade debate to "determine" whether or not museums should return the Kingdom of Benin's artwork. Two out of three classes decided that the artwork should remain in museums based on the arguments and evidence presented.
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Things Fall Apart Wiki Project
Linda Vasu's Humanities students posted their written responses to Things Fall Apart onto The School's Wiki. A wiki is a website that allows colloborative editing of its content and structure. The term "wiki" evolved from the Hawaiin phrase "wiki-wiki" which means "quick-quick!"
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