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Lori Cohen's Advanced Composition class is undergoing a bit of a flip. This week, students have become the teachers. In small groups, students were asked to take on writing basics such as thesis statements, introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions. Their objective was as follows: You and your group members will be responsible for designing a …
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I just returned from a trip to New Orleans where Mio Berk, College Counseling Associate, and I attended The National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC) annual conference. This conference gathers approximately 5,000 college admissions officers and high school counselors from every corner of the country (and beyond). While there, we had the opportunity to …
In the art studio we have been talking about color. How does color affect you? What colors do you gravitate towards? Students in the Drawing 1a class have been working with colored pencils to "scale-up" an image from a magazine. Math skills set the foundation for the project, as students gridded off an image from a …
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." —Pablo Picasso On September 28th, the Drawing 1b class ventured (with sketchbooks in hand) to the de Young Museum to see the Picasso Exhibition. Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor, and one of the most …
This past Friday in Model United Nations Club, we read an article from The Economist about the struggle over statehood with Palestine. After some background on Palestine’s recent bid for statehood at the United Nations, we had an informal discussion sharing our personal views, and pointing out what we saw as problems and benefits to Palestine being …
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