Exploring Life in the 13 Original Colonies

In Ms. Gamble’s class, students studied famous US colonists and learned a lot about what life was like for men and also for women in those early years of American history. Her students created posters about early American colonists and were asked to present them to the class. Fourth-grader Alexander

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Confronting Discrimination

Atticus Finch said, You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view; until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. On Monday, June 8, eighth-grade students at the LFNY attempted to do just that. The focus of the LFNY class delegates this

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Head of School for a Day

Luc ne savait pas qu’il serait proviseur pour un jour mais ce fut une une formidable expérience pour ce jeune élève de 4ème. Comme son camarade, Luc a l’expression de quelqu’un qui a passé une journée bien remplie. Une expérience inoubliable. “Ce qui m’a le plus impressionné, c’est de visiter

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Lessons from Hiroshima

On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 the Y11 students of the Lycée Français welcomed an extraordinary program to our school. Youth Arts New York’s Hibakusha Stories initiative organized a conference regarding the lessons one can learn from the atomic attack on Hiroshima August 6, 1945 seventy years later. (Learn more about

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The Analog Platform

The Analog Platform. That’s the phrase that came to my mind as I watched my twelve 5eme advisees. Some were writing and drawing on the wall-sized whiteboard of Student Resource Room A. Others were at the table drawing logos for our advisory that would decorate our room. Another student worked

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