Middle School
Middle school students have successfully completed their first assessment in which they practiced their skills of recall and short essay responses. They are learning the value of taking thorough notes and asking good questions as they move through lessons.
Students have since moved into a unit on Europe in the years leading up to the Renaissance. Seventh and eighth grade students are each creating a piece of art to reflect what they need to know about different terms we’ve discussed in class. Upon completion of this project on Tuesday, their art will be hung in the history classroom to encourage their use of the vocabulary.
High School
High school students are also spending time in research and project development. They are working on their paper covering a 21st century issue in American politics, and they’ve also begun their comparative government research project, which they will present to the class. These projects allow students to continue to build on and strengthen their knowledge of the American political system.
Counterfactual History
Students in this elective have completed their first project, in which they chose a counterfactual to research and present to their classmates. From Julius Caesar’s assassination, to the Zimmerman Note, to the Black Plague, to the outcome of the Civil War, students did a fantastic job digging in to understand the history of each of these key moments in order to understand what might have gone differently.
