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As part of her Senior Signature Project, Claire is writing music reviews for an online publication called The Owl Mag, which “offers daily music news, reviews, videos, and features about local artists, emerging/unsigned bands, independent DIYers, and those that have ‘MADE IT.’” Her first published review looks at “Piedmont Girls,” Bay Area band Local Hero’s …
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Arts and humanities teacher Colin Williams shares about his history students’ mock debates. What looked like a room full of students last week was in fact a room full of delegates to the New York ratifying convention in Poughkeepsie. The men of New York elected these delegates to decide whether to ratify the new Constitution. At each …
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“As anger and disillusionment toward the current state of our political system rises, the number of people voting falls? Surely this can’t be the solution.” Senior Walker spoke at Morning Meeting recently about the aim of The Bay School mock election, citing nation-wide lack of citizen participation as a serious issue that even the youngest …
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Written by Alena, Jake and Sam Our San Francisco Bay Marine Biology class went on a weekend-long field trip to the Monterey area. The trip allowed us to explore several different habitats that form where the ocean meets the land. We spent Friday afternoon collecting data on two trips coordinated by Long-term Monitoring Program and …
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Last week, Ellen Greenblatt’s Innocence and Evil class put character Doc Hata of Chang-Rae Lee’s novel, A Gesture Life, on trial. In the story, Doc Hata is an aging physician haunted by – if not fully aware of – his role in the Japanese Army’s enslavement and rape of “comfort women” during World War II. …
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