Senior Izabella Nagy received Early Acceptance to American University in Washington, D.C. Izabella is an excellent student who is taking her classes in our Independent Study Program. We wish her great success at AU!
Continue ReadingThe Scarlet Letter
Mrs. Giacchino’s eleventh grade students are reading The Scarlet Letter and were required to complete a project. They had to research an individual in society (past to present) who sinned and is/was involved in a scandal like Hester. They had to find a picture of the person and write three paragraphs that consisted of a […]
Continue ReadingPhysics Lab – Out of the Book and into the Lab
Mr. Haselden’s physics students, Dani Weeks and Elias Kief, are busy converting periods to frequencies using wavelengths and time. In their lab, Qualitative Vibrations and Waves, they set up different pendulum lengths. After their calculations, they moved on to measuring and observing longitudinal and transverse waves using a modified slinky. They witnessed constructive and destructive […]
Continue ReadingJupiter Project
Riley Walsh holds up his model of Jupiter for Mr. Haselden’s Astronomy class. Complete with the Great Red Spot and opposing atmospheric pressure, the fifth planet from the sun is menacing. This gas giant was originally spotted in 1610 by Galileo, who used a telescope to first witness four large moons orbiting Jupiter. This eventually […]
Continue ReadingLeap Day Time Capsule
Mrs. Giacchino’s English classes discussed leap day and leap year and then created a leap day time capsule. After February 29, 2016, the next leap day will not happen again until 2020! Imagine how much you will have changed and grown by then. A fun way to track your changes over the next four years is […]
Continue ReadingLight It Up Blue – World Autism Day
Autism is a bio-neurological developmental disability that generally appears before the age of 3. Autism impacts the normal development of the brain in the areas of social interaction, communication skills and cognitive function. Individuals with autism typically have difficulties in verbal and non-verbal communication, social interactions and leisure or play activities. According to the CDC, […]
Continue ReadingAstronomy
Mr. Haselden’s astronomy class is studying the moon and Earth. For the first project, the students designed a model of any object in our solar system. Their models will hang in the classroom and dazzle the other students. Here we have Elias. Elias pitied our former ninth planet – now a planetoid – Pluto and […]
Continue ReadingMath Jokes
I have been putting up math jokes each day on my board. The students really get a kick out of them, and some are even learning topics from other classes (for example: The students in geometry and Algebra 1 did not understand, so it was a good way to introduce SOH CAH TOA to them […]
Continue ReadingToday Café Workers Celebrate the End of First Semester
Just before Winter Break, the workers of Today Café celebrated the end of another successful semester by going bowling together at the Brunswick Zone Roswell, just down the street from school. They enjoyed pizza and sodas for lunch first, and all played a great game! Before the trip, they narrowed down the list of charities […]
Continue ReadingFilm Studies
Mrs. Giacchino’s Film Studies class started second semester by talking about sequels and prequels–what this semester will be all about. Students created movie posters for their favorite movie series, presented them to the class, and explained why they like the movies so much. The students enjoyed creating the posters and thinking about their favorite movies […]
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