Mrs. Giacchino’s seniors finished reading Animal Farm by George Orwell and created a project to wrap up the unit. Students were asked to pick a dramatic or arts/crafts project from […]
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Christian demonstrates his How-To project. He prepared chocolate chip and bacon pancakes.
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One of the Mentor Room students prepares to give his report on Teddy Roosevelt.
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Ms. Ammendola’s language arts students created posters representing their favorite characters in a book. They listed adjectives that describe their character, provided quotes to and from the character that provided […]
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Ms. Hrabosky’s English class celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by creating limericks. We spent a week studying the history, structure and format of limericks. Students created two of their own limericks […]
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The genre for February’s book report was Historical Fiction. Students were required to type a book report and make a poster advertising their book. Students’ posters were to be creative […]
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Twelfth grade English students composed an outline to help better understand the English Renaissance Period. In this unit, they are studying about the renaissance and reformation as well as answering […]
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Twelfth grade English students just finished a unit on Animal Farm and constructed a variety of projects to display their creativity and comprehension. Ben created a time line comparing various […]
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The literary genre for September was fiction. The project was to design a book jacket. Students designed creative and interesting book jackets while still adhering to the special instructions […]
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Mr. William’s students were required to read a “How-To” book from the informational (non-fiction) genre. Examples of books that fall into that category are cookbooks, photography books, game books, model […]
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The recent literary genre in Mr. Williams’ class was biography. Each student created a timeline on poster board about the life of his/her “biography person.” They glued key dates and […]
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Ms. Hrabosky’s English class just finished reading William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and students were asked to complete a project to wrap up the unit and to present […]
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