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7th graders continued with their Holocaust projects on a theme from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Some of them are using clay and the projects are really taking shape.
For their last art class together, the students played pictionary.
The 8th grade did the last editing of their speeches …
The 8th graders have been working hard on their graduation speeches this week!
The 8th graders participated in their last whole-school Tefillah , where Jordan and Itamar received the Staci and J.Z. Glazier Torah Achievement Award! The award is given each year to an 8th grader who goes above…
This week we studied the beginning of the Civil War and how well the Confederate Army initially did against Union soldiers. We ended the week with the great Union victory at Antietam and President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which was a turning point in the war, moving it to a â…
In history we are starting our study of the Civil War, beginning with Abraham Lincoln’s election and the bombing of Fort Sumter six months later. Besides our text we will be using a lot of primary source documents and, of course, watching episodes of Ken Burns’ class documentary on the w…
This week we continued our study of the decade before the Civil War and the events that led up to southern secession and the attack on Fort Sumter. Yesterday we read the beginning of a paper I wrote in grad school about the huge impact that Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin had…
