by newschoolsyr | May 24, 2024 | affective education, Community, language arts, language arts grades 4 - 8
As banning books became much more common throughout the country we began a discussion with older students based on reading aloud a book called The Day the Book Was Arrested by Nat Hentoff. In the book, a parent objected to the reading of Huckleberry Finn...
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Our children, our students, live in a world that has developed all kinds of media and ways to transmit information, disinformation, ideas, and images. They hear the media, adults, other peers talking about events and opinions as they move through their days. Some of...
by newschoolsyr | Jan 12, 2015 | 2014-2015, language arts grades 4 - 8, Social Studies
The oldest group of students finished up their in depth study of the Civil War. After learning about the local abolitionist movement and underground railroad here in Syracuse at the Onondaga Historical Association, the students analyzed the causes of the war from both...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 28, 2014 | 2014-2015, language arts, language arts grades 4 - 8, writing workshop
A small group of older students have been discussing the important elements of a great story. First we considered setting and the children created a drawing or map of a place or setting that intrigued them. The following week we discussed character and the importance...
by newschoolsyr | Feb 27, 2014 | 2013-2014, language arts grades 4 - 8, Social Studies
Ancient Greece has been a theme discussed by all of the children recently. The oldest children started with comparing Greece to Mesopotamia. They quickly discovered, from the maps we compared, that the geography had a huge influence on each...
by newschoolsyr | Oct 20, 2013 | 2013-2014, language arts grades 4 - 8
Inspired by Kenneth Koch’s book, Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? the older students spent 6 weeks studying the poems of Wallace Stevens’ Thirteen Ways to Look at a Blackbird; John Ashbery’s Into the Dusk-Charged Air: Arthur Rimbaud’s Voyelles; William...
