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Arts instructor Ascha Drake shares a start-of-school project. Students in the Drawing 1B class had a session of experimenting. Our familiarity with picking up and holding pens and pencils for writing creates a habitual approach to handling them. Students attached a drawing tool of their choice onto a long stick that became their "extended arm." …
The students in Miles Chen’s astrophysics class enjoyed a trimester immersed in studying the stars, which culminated in a recent field trip to the Aardvark Observatory. Two such students, Sam and Izzy ’14, shared about their experience at and after the class trip to the Aardvark Observatory. “We went to Gary and Cynthia Bengier’s,” Izzy …
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Humanities instructor Ellen Greenblatt discusses her class' recent visit to the Presidio's own Walt Disney Family Museum (WDFM). Before going to the WDFM, students in the Writing Workshop class were working on honing their interpretive and analytical skills, using "The Book Thief" by Marcus Zusak as a model text. Students focused on plot, character, setting …
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Freshmen in Humanities 1A have been working hard to understand bias. All through the Mexico unit, students have considered how different artists, writers and historians have seen the world. In their culminating assignment, students collaborated to make a Diego Rivera-style mural that shows how they themselves see Mexican history. They depicted the pre-Columbian period of the Aztecs …
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For the past three months, sophomores taking Research in the Community have been building their research skills by exploring topics of personal interest that are also relevant to their communities. They've gathered scholarly information, conducted field research, written about their findings and created a project and presentation. As a culminating exercise, these students had the …
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