Learning Is Blossoming as Spring Rolls In

 Read, Research, Write and Present:  Freshman English students read a nonfiction book and are researching an issue related to one in the book. After researching an issue using school databases and other resources, they are writing a speech to bring attention to it and persuasively argue a specific way to handle the issue. Some books include Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden, Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg and Spare Parts by Joshua Davis.

Infographic about Collapse of a Civilization:  Global I students created infographics to explain why civilizations collapse. Students read about a civilization in Jared Diamond's book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and applied new learning to creating an original infographic to explain Diamond's causes for collapse and societal responses. 

Invisible Influence: Sophomore English students are exploring an ideology held by our society on a specific issue (gender roles, national identity, tolerance, politics, homelife, workplace, power structure, etc.) that they feel is outdated, the problems/challenges these views create, and the influence of the media on society's change or lack of change regarding the issue. They are analyzing past and present ads looking for fallacies used in advertising to perpetuate myths.

Blackout Poems from Night by Elie Wiesel: Sophomore English students created new found/blackout poems using Elie's language. Blackout poems are a form of found poetry where one takes existing texts, reorders them and presents them as poems.

Global I: Students in Global I are depicting the role of religion in a movement, event or conflict. For example, some students chose to gain a deeper understanding of the Iranian Revolution and the Holocaust.