High School Newsletter - March 6, 2026
We’ve started off this semester in exciting fashion!
January’s minimester was a huge success, where students got to dig into student-led projects like making a stop-motion animated film, learning 7 songs for a performance, or working at a local non-profit restaurant serving the community and making a difference!
After that, the semester has been a bit of a slog through some tough weather!
In Outdoor and Service Learning, students learned to rock climb at Cultivate Climbing, to cook with Andrew, or volunteered at a rescue farm.
We’ve also added some new electives this semester, including Poetry, Board Game Design, and Mythology, as well as continuing the Community Kitchen Build class that started last semester.
Students and teachers participated in a march downtown protesting violence perpetrated by Immigration Control (ICE). And, just this week, students began new OS&L units: Farm Skills, Community Kitchen Build, and Theatre!
Ask your student about the work they’re doing in OS&L!
Here’s what students are learning this semester:
From Lisa in the Math Matrix:
● In our upper level math class, we’ve moved from quadratic functions to polynomial functions! We’re currently practicing with all the ways in which polynomials can be simplified and played with.
● In Geometry, we have completed a full unit on congruent and similar figures and have now moved on to transformations. We’re currently practicing dilations and finding the connections to art, specifically with making murals, as well as scaled figures of all sorts.
From Gabe in the Wordsmith’s Forge:
● In American Literature, our first unit is focused on Black Americans, and we are reading the play A Raisin in the Sun as the central text. We will be looking at the ways in which black Americans have had to struggle for rights and equality throughout the history of the country and explore the myriad ways in which the leadership and resilience of minorities has improved life for
everyone.
● In Modern Literature, we are studying the Dadaists, Absurdists, and Existentialists. We’re reading the play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, as well as reading a variety of essays, poems, and short stories that explore modernism through the philosophical lens of absurdism and existentialism.
From Andrew in the Science lab:
● In Earth Science we are learning about earthquakes, reading seismographs and designing structures to survive earthquakes.
● In Chemistry we are learning about the different groups and families of elements in the periodic table. Next we are learning about the different types of chemical bonds. How ionic!
From hadley in the histories den:
● In World History we are going to the age revolutions: the Haitian and French revolutions, the Latin American wars, and the wars of independence.
● In Environmental History, we are studying car-country and how automobiles shape the landscape in America.
What to know this month:
Mapp Testing - High school Freshman and Sophomores will take the standardized
Mapp tests at the end of this month.
Junior/Senior Trip - Juniors and Seniors are heading down to Cumberland Island for their annual Junior/Senior trip from March 31 - April 3rd.
