“Creativity and Complexity” sums up our work on The Alchemist Multigenre Projects. Students worked in groups to collaborate and create written and visual pieces to show their depth of understanding about the novel. They created these genres around themes like: following a personal legend, the unity of nature, and the danger of fear. Nice work, …
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Sep 26
Watershed Reflections Art & Expressions Contest
Start planning now to participate in Earth Day 2017 by submitting an entry into the student environmental art and expression contest. Download the flyer here: Contest Info SUBMISSION CATEGORIES (One entry per person): Traditional Media: Drawings, paintings, or mixed media artwork. Entries will be judged based on interpretation of theme, creativity, and presentation. Photography: Unaltered photographs taken …
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Mar 08
Lord of the Flies Symbol Art
Students in Mr. G’s Pre-AP MST/Magnet English 10 class recently completed their reading of Lord of the Flies. One of the main learning targets for our reading of this was for students to be able to define universal and constructed symbols and explain how the author used these to develop a central theme in the text. As part …
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Jan 21
And the POL winner is …
Magnet sophomore Alaya Mays advanced from our classroom Poetry Out Loud competition, a national poetry recitation contest CHS participates in, to the school wide competition that was held on 01/21/16 at CHS. Alaya competed against approximately 40 other class winners from various CHS English classes, grades 9-12. Guess what? She took home top honors! Congratulations to …
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Dec 11
VFW Honors Magnet Sophomore
Magnet sophomore Duy Vuong rose to the challenge (like he always does) when presented with the extra credit opportunity Mr. Greene offered in early November via the annual Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) audio/essay contest. In this national competition about “40,000 high school students from across the country enter to win a share of the $2 million in educational …
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Sep 04
Ashland Itinerary Finalized
Ashland Shakespeare Field Trip What: Field trip to see productions of Guys and Dolls and Much Ado about Nothing, participate in a “prologue” workshop for Much Ado and another workshop the following morning covering the plays we see. Where: Ashland, Oregon, site of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. We have booked the entire Ashland Commons youth …
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Dec 11
Magnet Sophomore Places in VFW Essay Contest
Magnet sophomore Nathan Chillian debated the effort to reward ratio when he considered the extra credit writing assignment Mr. Greene offered in early November via the annual Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) essay contest. In the end, Chillian decided it was worth it. Little did he know when he submitted his essay that (besides getting …
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Apr 29
MST 9 Romeo and Juliet
Students in Mr. MacGowan’s MST English class performed their scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to the delight of their instructor. He raved over their performances which were rendered with uninhibited spirit and passion. Mac said of their efforts, ”These students were wonderful to work with. To see the kids in this element and …
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Mar 26
Adventures in Non-Fiction
Sophomore Pre-AP English students in the Magnet read Malcom Gladwell’s book Outliers, in which he explores the hidden factors that play into achievement and success. For our study of the book, students are assigned sections of the book to teach the class. They design lessons tied to the Common Core standards, develop learning targets and …
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Nov 26
Caesar Videos!
Sophomore Magnet students worked to interpret scenes from Julius Caesar and update it with a new theme while retaining basic plot and tone. In the process they learned about storyboarding, screen play writing, and working with a team to make/edit a video: Bill and Ted’s Gotham Problem / Inception Caesar , High School Musical Caesar, and Hunger Games …
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