Friday: Varsity boys volleyball team won their first meet of the season against Trevor Day. They won all three sets again the other upper-east side based school. Go Lynx!
Friday: In preparation for the much anticipated Medieval Day Parade, students in this pre-K class are creating shield out of cartboard, aluminum foil and glue.
Thursday: This 10th grade ELL class is in the final stages of a project in which they are answering the question, “Is Othello a classic Tragic Hero as defined by Aristotle?” This is the same topic they addressed on a prior text, Things Fall Apart, in essay form. This time, they are making their argument using the multi-media iPad app, Explain Everything. While the organization of argument/evidence/explanation mirrors that of an explanatory essay, this assignment challenges the students to consider additional/mixed (written, visual, spoken) communication strategies to convey their message.
Tuesday: French movie director Christophe Honoré meets with the cinema option high school students. His latest features are Les Bien-Aimés (2011) and Métamorphoses (2014). Honoré was in town for the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Film Festival 2015. “Nous cinéastes français sommes des enfants gâtés. Nous n’existerions pas dans d’autres pays. C’est grâce aux aides à la création cinématographique que nous pouvons créer aussi librement”, said the French screenwriter and director.
Tuesday: Students in the 10th-grade theater option are presenting a theater production project to a jury of French and theater teachers. The students, by groups of three, had to choose a classical French play and explain how they would produce it – from choosing the actors, to stage design to costumes – in order to convince a jury of producers. Here the play is L’île aux esclaves by Pierre de Marivaux.
Monday: A 5th grade student asks a question to her classmate about a presentation he just finished on Louis Pasteur, who discovered pasteurization. Students in this class are all presenting on a 19th century discovery, invention or creation that changed people’s lives at the time.
About the Author :
Former journalist, Cecile is passionate about multimedia storytelling. With her camera, notepad and microphone, she enjoys telling the great stories that are happening at the Lycée. Cecile was formerly senior communications manager at the school.