Our students will create a personal coat-of-arms, to display their family name, a special place, an animal that represents them, a passion, a book genre, a movie, something EXTRA , and a personal motto. The order does not matter.
PROJECT 13
TUNNEL OF EXPERIENCES
As a final expression of learning, students will design a Tunnel of EXPERIENCES, and fill it with WRITING and ARTWORK depicting the dynamic experiences they learned about in seventh grade. They are encouraged to draw from all of our projects, as well as their personal experiences this school year. The outside of the Tunnel will be covered with a large tarp, on which students will create urban art, where almost anything goes. OWN IT!
Old Indian Cave?
DEAD POETS SOCIETY
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." ― John Keating (Dead Poet's Society)
THE STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS OF THE TEENAGE EXPERIENCE
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ― e. e. cummings
Personal Coat-of-Arms
Project 13 focuses on the varied experiences of teenagers, as seen through their own eyes. Students will start from personal experience, then journey down various pathways in order to learn about the multitude of teenage experiences across the globe. Each "pathway" has been curated by students, so that they not only have voice and choice within the project, they also have agency in the project design process. Our resource list includes fiction and nonfiction books, articles, films, music and poetry. Students can choose how far THEY want to travel down each pathway. They will also discover that many of the pathways intersect, creating new opportunities for critical thinking and collaboration.
ALUMNI
TATTOOS
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