Students took part in their annual reading of the Dickens holiday classic “A Christmas Carol,” in the library before break. Meanwhile, Second Street eighth grader Ravi Mampara was featured in the Ford’s Theatre performances of “A Christmas Carol.”

Upper school students started their own writing center. The new club, the brainchild of junior Natalie Timberg, is open Tuesdays and Thursdays during tutorial on the Arabic side of the library. The club is advised by upper school English teacher Ms. Feist. 

Students in Mr. Torrence’s AP environmental science and Mr. Finkelman’s environmental science class visited the Baltimore Aquarium on Tuesday to observe and explore animals from all over the world.  The Aquarium has a wide variety of aquatic habitats, including the northern Australian river gorge, the tropical rainforest and the Indo-Pacific reef. 

Students in the upper and middle school of Second Street participated in the performance of Clue, a comedic play directed by theater teacher Mr. Birkenhead. The play will be performed on the 8th through the 11th. The play was double-cast, with two specific sets of actors. The play, based on the board game, includes the iconic characters, Professor Plum, Ms. Scarlet, Ms. Peacock, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, and Col. Mustard. In the third quarter, students will take part in a musical called Curtains, directed by Mr. Baldwin.

Sixth graders at the Cooper Campus in Ms. Adeosun’s sixth grade history class are engaged in a multi-disciplinary unit called Heroes in History. Students have read stories about and researched the lives of Emmett Till and Anne Frank, the play Anne and Emmett by Janet Langhart Cohen and the young reader’s version of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. Students have taken part in discussions and book logs analyzing why it is valuable to remember, honor, and retell their stories and legacies. They have also written about the concepts of oppression, courage, and resilience, and what defines a hero. On December 12, the sixth graders will visit National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) to learn more about the historical events that gave context to both Frank and Till’s tragic deaths.