Students in sixth grade completed a reflection after their Rome gallery walk, taking time to note projects of excellence. From here, we continued a lesson on Rome and have also explored the cultures of early India under Asoka and early China during the Qin Dynasty, which saw the beginning of the Great Wall and a standardized system of weights and measures.

In seventh grade, students are learning about the factors that led to the Civil War, including the many compromises that delayed that great conflict. Today, we focused in on abolitionists and activists including Solomon Northup, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass,  Lucretia Mott, the Grimke sisters, and William Lloyd Garrison.

In eighth grade, students have been exploring key moments in early American history through different inventions, infrastructure projects, wars, and land purchases. Today, we read a primary source written anonymously by one of the Lowell factory girls, highlighting the experience of working in the newly industrialized nation.