In social studies we discussed the Balfour Declaration, its significance, and long term impact following an analysis of the difference between ‘nation’ and ‘state.’ We also started our Holocaust unit with the rise of fascism in Germany and how an educated nation fell under the Nazi worldview.

Your science students are surveying skeletal muscles and wondering whether feats of superhuman strength are a reflection of super-muscles or the ability of a super-stress response to maintain muscle action beyond normal bounds.

In language arts, Animal Farm is becoming a favorite. We are wondering what the pigs are going to do next. Who will win the power struggle, Napoleon or Snowball?

Students in civics engaged in a debate and discussion about public education, property taxes being the driving force of schooling, and the difficult challenges (or some easy fixes?) to education in the U.S.

In honor of International Holocaust Day, in Judaics class we learned about why Germany was so susceptible to the Nazis. On one of our tangents, we discussed how people can lose rights, and who can lose rights? We also learned about the difference between de jure or de facto.

This week in art the students continued to work on their landscape paintings.