Grades 7-8: Week of 3/25/24

In Social Studies, students studied the arms race aspects of the Cold War, learning about NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and the technology that threatened but never led to confrontation between the superpowers. We also took a break from history, based on a survey of the students who asked for mo…

Grades 7-8: Week of 3/18/24

Students in Social Studies took a big test on the Holocaust & WW2. We also began our unit on the Cold War era, which will be the first historical analysis that is thematic rather than chronological: we will study the politics, the arms race, the space race, ‘hot spots,’ Civil Rights, and…

Grades 7-8: Week of 3/11/24

In Social Studies, students completed their studies of WW2 with a focus on the Manhattan Project, moral dilemmas faced by leaders leading up to V-J Day and the immediate aftermath, including the Nuremberg Trials.

Students in Science began presenting short reports about skin diseases. Will t…

Grades 7-8: Week of 3/4/24

In Social Studies, students learned about 1945 and the many events that influenced the end of the war in Europe. Among topics we discussed: Dresden, Yalta, the Battle of the Bulge, and most critically, D-Day.

In Language Arts, we are starting chapter 8 in Animal Farm. Students didn’t like…

Grades 7-8: Week of 2/26/24

Students in Social Studies continued dissecting the Second World War, specifically focusing this week on Pearl Harbor, the aftermath, including the internment of Japanese Americans, and the mid-war years of 1942 and 1943. Stalingrad, island-hopping, and the American home front were in focus.…