In Social Studies, students completed their studies of the Versailles Treaty vs. Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the post-war decisions made by the victors. We also used America’s isolationism to segway into the Roaring 1920’s, which includes a study of the XIX Amendment, Prohibition, the Harlem Renaissance, organized crime, and the booming economy…for the time being.

 

Students in Science reviewed the principle function of muscles: to contract. Ask them how all voluntary movements proceed from just that. Physics Friday was all about the atom, individuals sticker-bombed Bohr models to characterize elements from the periodic table.

 

In Language Arts, we are reading Animal Farm in earnest. It has already led to lots of interesting conversations about “comradeship” and who is in and who is out. We related it to the phrase “We the people.” The connections the students make are amazing.

 

Students in Civics connected the two seemingly contradictory notions of “a free country” with “a nation of laws” in the context of the 18th Amendment and whether there can be ‘bad law.’  This connected with the study of the 1920’s in history class.

 

In Judaics, we finished up our projects on Mizrahi Jews. Next week we will present them to the class.

 

In Music this week they had a test on the history and theory they’ve learned up to this point. We also had a performance from Miriam on the guitar!