Juniors had the opportunity to go see a performance of The Crucible today put on by CAST Theatre! This was such a great experience getting to see the play come to life on stage! .

After reading about the death of Julius Caesar, 10th grade students participated in a court case to put Cassius and Brutus on trial. Students either had to prepare for the prosecution or defense and work with a group to present a winning case. A big thanks to our jurors!

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After reading the Crucible, 11th grade Ss have been working on character memorials to create a visual representation of one of the characters. They have listed strengths and weaknesses, written about the character’s impact on the community, and found supporting textual evidence!

This past week my sophomore students worked on writing an escape room short story. They had to come up with characters, a setting, and plot for their stories. Now, they will be using their completed stories to create an escape room in their math class! #CHSJourneyForward

Ss played a game yesterday as preparation for reading “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. They had to form a group that did not include witches, but no one was a witch. The goal of this was to show how easy paranoia and misinformation spread, just like during the Salem Witch Trials.

Today, juniors had their public presentation of their Harlem Renaissance PBL! They have been working hard on this in English class and Coach Gamble’s History class! They used the Har. Ren. as inspiration to create a piece of art to represent themselves. #CHSJourneyForward

We had a great day with our Film/Photo Club! Students learned about composition and practiced taking full length, mid-length, and close up photos. They did a great job with this! #CHSJourneyForward

Today senior students voted on the best sword props and then used those to act out the final scenes of Macbeth! We saw some good acting today! #CHSJourneyForward

Senior Ss have been creating prop swords for us to use when acting out the final scenes from Macbeth! They had to choose a character to create the sword for and incorporate colors that represent that character. #CHSJourneyForward

Yesterday, 10th grade Ss participated in a four corners anticipation guide. They responded to statements related to the ideas we’ll be analyzing in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. They did a great job expressing their ideas and listening to each other! #CHSJourneyForward

Senior students began reading Macbeth this week! They created party invitations to the next meeting of the three witches, and they had to capture the mood created by the witches so far in the play! #CHSJourneyForward

Yesterday, 10th graders created graffiti boards to answer questions about the “single stories” we have in life. These were based on the TEDTalk “The Danger of a Single Story” from Chimamanda Adichie. #CHSJourneyForward

We had a great first day of our Film/Photo Club! Thanks to Griffin Harris with Lee Marketing Group for coming to share with the students and letting them try out all the camera gear!

12th grade students began their “Full Story” presentations today! They are explaining how a group of people has been misrepresented in society and what is the full story about those people. They are doing a great job sharing their ideas and research! #CHSJourneyForward

10th graders have been creating body biographies about themselves. They had to include 5 symbols to represent themselves, 5 adjectives that describe them, and 3 quotes/song lyrics they relate to. They’ve done a great job displaying their creativity! #CHSJourneyForward

Today 10th grade wrote commentary for each line of the poem “Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car.” They then revised each other’s commentary to try and improve it. #CHSJourneyForward

11th grade has been working on a project where they analyze how one of the sisters from Little Women is represented by a color. They also picked a color that represents themselves and created a collage using primarily that color. #CHSJourneyForward

12th grade played Blooket today in preparation for their Beowulf test tomorrow! Winners received one of my teacher trading cards! #CHSJourneyForward

10th grade students participated in a socratic seminar today to discuss ideas from the texts we’ve read so far! Their goal was to discuss, not debate, and gain a common understanding of the texts. #CHSJourneyForward

My seniors worked on writing boasts like Beowulf in Anglo-Saxon style, and they are now developing those boasts into cover letters they could use for future job applications! #CHSJourneyForward