All three sections of Honors English 10 at Second Street are participating in Shakespeare Theater Company’s residency program, in which a teaching artist from the theater frequently helps the class to explore acting, theatrical design, Shakespearean text, and King Lear, which both the 9th and 10th grades will be attending at Shakespeare Theater Company in March.
Sixth graders at Cooper Campus in Ms. Adeosun’s English classes are starting a non-fiction unit focusing on research through the lens of climate change. The class is reading Climate Change for Teens: Your Future is Green. The class plans to have a future outdoor activity to accompany their research.
Students on both campuses have started new clubs this year. New Clubs at 2nd Street include the Mythology Club, The Wednesday Adams fanclub, Fashion Design Club, and Cartoon Club. Students at Cooper Campus also started several student-lead clubs including an LGBTQ rights club, a World Building Club, a Movie Making Club, and a Chess Club. Clubs meet at lunch or during tutorial and are lead by industrious students, with help from faculty advisors.
Upper school student-athletes attended the Women’s Basketball game at American University on Wednesday. The group included members of the cheerleading squad lead by Ms. Griffiths, the varsity girls’ basketball team, lead by Ms. Woods, and the Varsity track team, lead by Mr. Callum and Ms. Dreux.
In the first few weeks of January Ms. Foley’s ninth grade English class at Second Street, completed a short “Foods of the World” unit in which students read literature from different cultures of the world where they were from and ate food from there also. Families sent in food, and Ms. Foley brought Yugoslavian crescents from her great-grandma’s recipe. The class read “Bridge on the Zepa,” to go with the food. Another day, students ate homemade Irish soda bread and read “Limbo” and “Digging” by Seamus Heaney. One day they ate Italian pastry and read “In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound and “The Flowers Come As Gifts” by Amelia Rosselli, and lastly students learned about the origins of hush puppies in America through a nonfiction text.
The varsity boys and girls basketball teams were busy this week, taking on the Basis Red Giants on Thursday. In between the game, coaches recognized the senior athletes on the basketball, cheerleading, and track and field teams with a celebration in the annual Winter Senior Night. This is the first Winter Senior Night since 2019, because sadly Covid precautions prevented the last few events from taking place. This week the boys’ team also played Washington Leadership Academy on Wednesday and Capital City on Friday.