Week in Pictures March 9-13

 

VarsityBoysVBFriday: 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!

medievalparade-5Friday: 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.

EnglishClass-5Thursday: 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.

OptionCinema-3Tuesday: 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.

SecondeOptionTheatre-15Tuesday: 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.

ExposéCM2-10Monday: 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.


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