College on the Horizon

College on the Horizon

Wednesday Sophomores and Juniors will attend a college fair at Thurgood Marshall Academy. More than 50 colleges will participate. Students will enjoy the opportunity to speak with members of the admissions staff, ask questions about college life, and get a feel for the various options for students after graduation. Our college coaching process starts with Freshmen and continues through four years. Students work with their advisors and with Ms. Latham and Ms. Richardson to plan their academic careers and decide what they value in their college plans. In October, Washington Latin also hosted its own college fair, with representatives filling both the MPR and library.  By continuing to expose students to aspects of college life through fairs, lunchtime college visits, and a tour during Spring Break, the college counseling office helps provide students with a broad variety of experiences to make choices about the future.

Salute to Our Seniors

Salute to Our Seniors

On Wednesday at 7:00pm, the Music Department honor the 24 musical seniors in the 4th Annual Senior Honors Concert. Students will sing songs by the Beatles, Palestrina, Ben E. King, Lionel Hampton, and Gershwin, as well as Broadway hits from the plays Dreamgirls, Wicked and Ragtime; it’s going to be a great program!  Several of the seniors have opted to participate in the choirs or Jazz Band for all four years in high school and worked for the whole time with choir and band director and Arts Department chair Ms. Nevola. These seniors include Maggie Dalzell, Aaron Figueroa, Allegra Hatem, Carmaya Humble, Nia Miller, Eowyn Sherrer, Tabatha Smith, Ned Yarsky, and Sophia Cisneros. Cisneros, Yarsky, and Smith all participated in the choir during middle school as well.

 

Workers’ Rights Examined

Workers’ Rights Examined

The 8th grade History simulation on the assemblyline continued this week, as students practiced designing shirt waists on an assemblyline and Ms. Coppola-Klein acted the role of Boss Lady. Real life manufacturing challenges included limited workplace quality of life (the lights went out, and the windows closed), increasing demands for speed, reduced wages, and hiring of new immigrants from the Ellis Island table to replace people who were not performing fast enough.   Eventually, some students opted to strike when they felt the working conditions became unbearable. As a result, students gained insight into the experiences of turn of the century workers and the impact of industrialization and immigration or workers’ rights.

Echoes of Nature

Echoes of Nature

This week the seventh graders will embark on the annual trip to Echo Hill on Wednesday and return at 3:45 on Friday. The Echo Hill Outdoor School is located in Kent County, Maryland and offers courses in Survival, Aqualogy, Adventure (low-ropes course) and Bay Studies (in a boat on the Chesapeake) and Scanoeing (swamp canoeing). Students will sleep over in platform tents and take hikes through the wilderness without the use of flashlights! The overnight trips that students take in seventh and eighth grade and in eleventh and twelfth grades allow them to connect with their peers and teachers in a new environment and become more aware of the natural world around them.

 

On Track For a Great Season

On Track For a Great Season

Last week’s track meets for the middle school boys and girls’ team showed fast feet and high jumps, starting the season off strong!  In the girls’ meet at Holton Arms, eighth grader Zoe Edelman arrived in second place for her finish on the 1600 and 800 meter races. Seventh grader Ezinne Ukaegbu nabbed a first place finish in her heat of the 200 meter race, and narrowly finished second place finish in her 100 meter race. In the boys’ meet at the Landon School, our team came in fifth place overall. Eighth grader Miles Tiller surpassed his goal of 14 feet in the long jump by an additional five inches. Eighth grader Darren Wright also set his person record in the 100 meter dash, landing him in fifth place in the race. Eighth graders Lucien Anderson and Phil Horrigan earned third and fourth place, respectively, in the 800 meter race. Anderson also took fifth place in the 400 meter race. Seventh grader Jonah Spiva finished 4th overall in the 1600 meter race, and seventh grader Brice Parrot took ninth. In the 4X400 relay race eighth graders Phil Horrigan, China Ukaegbu, Evan Prince, and Samir Bhojwani finished in third place and Anderson, Spiva, and eighth graders Griffin Smith and Ranvir Malik came in fourth place. The teams are coached by Ms. McDaniel, Mr. O’Brien, Mr. Torrence, and Mr. Green.