The high light of the year was the dance elective for the fall/spring program. The students worked hard on their dance routine. The students started by warming up, stretching, and then working on their movements either individually or with their partner. The students learned sign language, flags, streamers and acrobat. They worked in partners, solos, and duets in these dances. Also, different types of dance moves in those routine like, hip-hop, salsa, house, ballet, b-boying or b-girling. The main thing is they had fun. They enjoy it and it ministers to them, so the students can minister to God and the audience.
Ms. Rosario
This year in 10th and 11th grade Bible, we were able to truly dig into the word of God. Most importantly we learned that God’s word is alive and He is still speaking to us and has a purpose for our lives.
Mr. Diaz
In the U.S. History class we tried to “see the forest from the trees.” What this means is that there is a danger of students getting bogged down with so much factual information that they fail to see the big picture or the drama. In some ways it’s how an English teacher tries to move from a summary of events of a novel to writing about theme and characterization. Since History is essentially a story, to really understand it one needs to see the main themes and characters involved. Hopefully by using this approach an interest in History and political events will allow students to be more interested in current events during the rest of their lives.
Mr. Drake
This year the students were involved in a variety of activities involving hearing, speaking, reading and writing. We reviewed the basics of the regular Present tense and stem changing verbs, Past tense, and later in the year they were introduced to Imperfect tense. Vocabulary in context with progressively more difficult reading passages were also studied. Cultural studies involving film and information about Latin America and Spain were part of the course.
Mr. Drake
This year the students were involved in a variety of activities including hearing, speaking, reading and writing. We emphasized the basics of the regular present tense and stem changing verbs, and later in the year they were introduced to the past tense. Vocabulary in context and use of adjectives were studied. Cultural studies involving film and information about Latin America and Spain were part of the course as well.
Mr. Drake
This year the students were involved in a variety of activities including hearing, speaking, reading and writing. We emphasized the basics of the regular present tense and stem changing verbs, and later in the year they were introduced to the past tense. Vocabulary in context and use of adjectives were studied. Cultural studies involving film and information about Latin America and Spain were part of the course as well.
Mr. Drake
In the Resource Room students get extra academic support. IEP students get individualized and small group engagement to address educational challenges. This year in Resource Room we saw students in each grade improve in their subject classes. There were many success stories and students showed confidence in their academic abilities.
Ms. Neal
Psychology explores the idea of controlling behavior and mental process. It’s the type of class that lends its self to debate and self-evaluation of one owns thoughts and behavior. This year we had some amazing debates and experimental group work. Some of the more memorable experiments were applying classical condition to fellow students, testing hearing and touch absolute threshold and testing visual difference threshold.
Miss Kemp
Students read and analyzed texts of several genres including poetry, prose, and theater. In the analysis of the works students paid attention not just to the literary techniques employed by the authors corresponding with the literary fashions of their time but also explored the social, historical, ideological, religious, philosophical, aesthetic and political backgrounds that contributed to their creation.
At this level of Spanish, students emerge into the literary richness of the language, while reviewing and continuously practicing the conversational and vocabulary concepts of Spanish. The goal is to refine and enhance in proficiency that will last a lifetime through immersion of the language.
Students approached the literary material confidently and made impressive text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.
Mrs. Haughton
These are the first three years of advanced class to the Spanish language and Hispanic culture. Students continued to learn the conversational and vocabulary concepts of Spanish, with the goal of refining and advancing proficiency by the end of the year.
These Spanish classes focused on the following four skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. Class time was used to engage skills such as situation dialogues; mini-skits; group work; conversations with classmates and teacher
Students learned that in order to achieve success in this course, it is essential to be prepared for each class. Language learning is a discipline that requires steady, cumulative preparation; a discipline in which each point builds upon its predecessor, such that if you do not master a given grammatical concept or vocabulary cluster, this will prevent assimilation of the following lesson. It was amazing to see the students take on the challenge and put forth so much effort.
Mrs. Haughton