Mr. Day’s English 10 class and Ms. Seid’s AP Literature Class will perform a scene in the Text Alive! Hamlet production at Shakespeare Theatre company. The performance will be at 10 am on April 28 at Sidney Harmon Hall and will feature sophomores Eva, Antoine, Sara Auriemma, Dante Belcher, Ryan Bradley, Perrin Brady, Justin Burgon, Nora Butler, Zoe Crute, Nona Douglas, Ava Evans, Shelby Ferncrombie, Will Geist, Simon Hall, Gabby Micheli, Bea Mott, Emma Olson, Christly Patillo, Sofia Posada, Felicity Ryan, Aya Salem, Oliver Stevens and Dakota Turnage.
Students from the Upper School Poetry Club and AP Literature will be meeting with the author Eugina Kim, who wrote The Caligrapher’s Daughter with students from Banneker and Holton Arms at Potter’s House in Adam’s Morgan. The event will be part of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation encourages the art of writing by pairing authors with students.
Juniors Jania Claire, DJ Okuleye and Tate Wright will travel to Rome through the Paideia Institute for language and history study abroad. Last year Isaiah Smith studied in Rome through this scholarship. Students will read selections of Latin texts from the late antique, Patristic, medieval, Renaissance and modern periods. They will experience informal conversational Latin sub arboribus, interactive visits to important historical and literary sites in Rome, lectures in English on different aspects of Latin and its literature, and weekend trips to important sites outside of Rome. Meanwhile, sophomore Kim Motpelier won the essay contest to go to Greece from the Living Greek in Greece Program.
Juniors Dyllan Cole and Chandler Brossard won scholarships to study foreign languages abroad through the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) Exchange Programs, sponsored by the State Department. The program provides merit-based scholarships for high school students to learn less commonly taught languages during a summer or academic year of immersion. Dyllan will send 6 weeks in Jordan studying Arabic, and Chandler will spend 6 weeks in Chengdu, China, studying Mandarin.
On Friday, the AP Latin class will visit an exhibit on Black Classicists at the Center for Hellenic Studies. The exhibit focuses on the first generation of Black PhDs in Classics. Colleges like Howard University played an important role in offering a range of classes on Classics and Latin and Greek to African American students during the 19th Century. Classicists in the exhibit include Wiley Lane (1852-1885), Helen Maria Chestnut (1880-1969), William Sanders Scarborough (1852-1926), John Wesley Edward Bowen (1855-1933), John Wesley Gilbert (1864-1923), Frazelia Campbell (1849-1930), William Henry Crogman (1841-1931), Reuben Shannon Lovinggood (1864-1916), Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912), Lewis Baxter Moore (1866-1928), Richard Theodore Greener (1844-1922), George Morton Lightfoot (1868-1947), Daniel Barclay Williams (1861-1895), James Monroe Gregory (1849-1915), and William Lewis Bulkley (1867-1933).
