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Time and Space: An Exhibition of Student Work
id n Br y l k oo an e Br “Th sy Dunc ai by D
ge”
MARBLEHEAD COMMUNITY CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL MARCH 5TH, 2009
Time and Space ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS AND UNDERSTANDING GOALS How am I an inheritor of the past and a shaper of the future?
Students will understand...
• How does one’s time and place influence one’s perception? • How can one make responsible decisions today that respect
our past and protect our future
What are the effects of technology on time and space?
Students will understand...
• How has technology changed our lifestyles? • How has technology bridged some distances and created
others?
How do time and space vary among cultures?
Students will understand...
• How do different cultures perceive time and space in
different ways? 2
Program of Activities THE MCCPS BAND under the direction of Ms. Adria Smith “Medieval Legend” composed by Michael Story “Saxology” by Eric Osterling
OPENING REMARKS by Nina Cullen-Hamzeh, Interim Academic Director & Emil Ronchi, Chair of the MCCPS Board of Trustees
STREET LATIN DANCE under the direction of Gregory Coles A selection of Latin dance including: Salsa, Chachacha, Merengue, and Bachata
A TIME FOR US the theme for “Romeo and Juliet” performed by the Sixth Grade
STUDENT EXHIBITIONS in grade level classrooms from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
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4th Grade REGIONAL ROUNDUP
Each student has assumed the role of a State Specialist and Regional Expert responsible for researching, writing, and designing a state brochure. Each brochure describes and illustrates information that includes state history, landmarks, land forms and water forms, natural and manufactured resources, population, climate, and other interesting facts.
In Art, students created landscapes representing their states, using mixed media, and in Science students created resource maps of their states.
In Community Service Learning, each class composed letters sent to a charter school or elementary in their chosen state, using class-generated questions about community and learning in their school.
NON-FICTION READING: BIOGRAPHIES
Each student has acted as state biographer, focusing on a famous person who was born or lived in his/her state. After reading a biography of that person, students composed an “hourglass bio-poem” and “bio-doll” to represent the famous individual.
MODERN LANGUAGES
Students labeled cities, mountains, and rivers in French or Spanish on blank maps of France or Spain. Each student wrote a phrase in either French or Spanish describing five of the locations on their maps.
NUMBER PROJECT
Fourth grade mathematicians have each explored a number of their choice and designed a creative and original presentation for the number. The presentation will include important information about the number such as even or odd, factors, multiples, symbols in other number systems, as well as other significant or interesting information about the number. In art students created Jasper Jones inspired patterns to create a design visually 4
representing their number as well as making stamps using different materials and media. In Music class students composed original keyboard pieces and analyzed them through numbers. Notes on the scale, fingering, and beats will be numbered on the composition.
Look for student compositions that will hang on the wall. They are analyzed in numbers!
5th Grade PATTERNS
For your viewing pleasure the fifth grade proposes a display of samplers that they have cross-stitched to demonstrate their knowledge of symmetry and plotting points on a coordinate plane. They will also be showing movie trailers based on the book Savvy. Students have written poetic lyrics and set them to music that they composed. Some students will perform their songs tonight. On display will be a quilt with poems and 5
illustrations created by the students. Students labeled and described maps of Spain or France in their language of study.
Students have determined, examined, described, and provided examples of how patterns are present and necessary in nature. This was done through the demonstration of the water cycle, solar system, and lunar phases. Students have constructed dioramas or will perform experiments to demonstrate the pattern in nature they have chosen. They also prepared written and oral reports based on their topic.
Students have located and described how geometry and/or geometric patterns are used continually throughout everyday life. They created displays that examine examples of architecture and described how geometry influenced the design.
Mandala means “Circle ” in Sanskrit. After looking at various types of mandalas from different cultures, students have created their own mandala by measuring angles to divide a circle in equal parts and trace lines between intersecting points to create symmetrical shapes. From there, students used imaginations to elaborate on their designs.
6th Grade ROMEO AND JULIET
Students have examined several different adaptations of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet and explored the ways different authors/performers have changed, edited and adapted the story. Tonight in Charter Hall, groups of students will perform scenes from the original text. As a class, students will sing “A Time For Us”, the Romeo and Juliet theme song and “La Vie En Rose”, a song about being in love, at the beginning of the play.
G3 PUZZLES: GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, GEOMETRY
Students became geographers, geologists, geometers and cartographers and researched, designed and built a multifaceted puzzle on an European or Asian country. Tonight, students will share their knowledge of 6
European and Asian geography and geology through their puzzles, essays and Google Earth presentations. They will also communicate their understanding of the geometry involved in their puzzle. Guests will be challenged to complete the puzzles. As geographers, students studied different regions of France and created a book that features artistic emulations of the designs and techniques used by French Impressionists. The book chronicles a story about the different regions of France. In art, as geometers, students made tessellations by reflecting half designs on the sides on an equilateral triangle, to create other geometric shapes, ranging from a rhombus to a six-pointed star to a hexagon.
7th Grade NILE CRUISE
Come cruise the Nile River and visit exotic locations of ancient Egypt. Experience the culture, secrets of the pyramids, and captivating traditions of people who cultivated Egypt, Nubia and Israel. Learn about each city through student created journals, pharaoh essays, and informational displays. See for yourself a scaled version of the Great Pyramid of Cheops on the Giza Plateau and learn some fascinating mathematical mysteries. Behold the unique 21st century pyramid designs that are symbolic representations of the students, reflecting ancient traditions.
Explore the connections of Egyptian life through art, music and the sciences. Hear the stories of French Egyptologists who collected artwork for the Louvre during the mid-Nineteenth century, also the era of the French Impressionists. Appreciate parodies of ancient Egyptian tomb fresco paintings. These are contemporary scenes in the Egyptian style of painting. Experience the process of mummification and compare the organs of humans and frogs. 7
As you pass through make sure to read up on the planets through student created BIG BOOKS. Listen to a performance or two of an original keyboard or guitar musical composition of a planet.
View a public service announcement developed to educate the community on physical addictions that affect the organs and organ systems of the human body.
TABLE AUCTION
Bring your wallets!! Make bids on student made coffee tables in a silent auction. Students have been assigned roles and been given their own business job titles. They all have collaborated to design and build their tables in wood shop with Mr. Haddock. Ask students what their role is in their MCCPS business and information regarding their tables. All proceeds go towards the wood shop and the 7th grade classroom.
8th Grade INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY: INVENTIONS OF THE 1800’S
During the first half of the 19th century, America developed rapidly and industrially, going through what many historians call an industrial revolution. This revolution refers to a change from people making the things they needed primarily at home to goods being made by more complicated machines and in factories. Communication changed. Transportation changed. The production of various materials and goods changed. As a result, society also changed in many ways.
The eighth graders have been immersed in this time period and tonight will present information about the innovative technologies of the 1800’s. Each student has chosen a piece of technology and has written a research paper on its history and its connection to the Industrial Revolution. In researching the piece of technology, they also studied its engineering design. Students have drawn plans and have calculated their own scales. They have also built a model of their drawn plans. Watch the students present their
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group projects on the World’s Fairs in Paris during the Industrial Revolution. They will perform a short French skit to accompany their posters and displays. In addition, students have broken down their topic into the “Universal System Model of Technology”, in which they identify the input, process, output, feedback, and resources. This model was created at MIT and is used worldwide. Lastly, the students were asked to be creative and present material learned in a creative graphic presentation. Some students have even created slide shows or sketches in a computer graphic program.
In addition, the students have done work in their music and art classes which connect to the topics and themes covered in other classes. For music, the students will present original musical compositions made using scales and techniques used in American 19th century music. For art, the students have explored the American Romantic art movement. 1830-1870 was a period of rapid growth in the US. Influenced by the Romantic movement and their awe of nature, some American artists started painting vast and majestic scenes of the American landscape. While these artists started painting around the Hudson River Valley, they quickly moved on to other areas of the US, especially the West, the Bahamas and even the Arctic. Tonight, the 8th grade students will present their drawings and paintings of American landscapes inspired by the Hudson River Valley school, who gave birth to the first American landscape style.
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MCCPS Foundation
The MCCPS Educational Foundation is a registered 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the school. The mission of the Foundation is to develop community partnerships that enhance the resource capacity of MCCPS to deliver according to its fullest potential as an innovative public charter school.
This year the Foundation has funded thousands of dollars for new technology including the Rosetta Stone web-based language program for every student. The Foundation has also administered an earmarked donation that covered a substantial portion of the school’s debt service for the current fiscal year.
The trustees of the Foundation meet monthly to discuss potential donors, awards to the school and how to disseminate news about the good work being done at MCCPS. If you are interested in becoming a trustee, helping us achieve our goals or have suggestions of potential supporters please speak to Jeffrey Barry at the school or send him an email.
If you’d like to make a tax-deductible donation to the Foundation you can click on the fundraising tab on the school’s website or send a check to PO Box 1405, Marblehead, MA 01945. thank you for your support!
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id n Br y l k oo an e Br “Th sy Dunc ai by D
ge”
MARBLEHEAD COMMUNITY CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL MARCH 5TH, 2009
Time and Space ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS AND UNDERSTANDING GOALS How am I an inheritor of the past and a shaper of the future?
Students will understand...
• How does one’s time and place influence one’s perception? • How can one make responsible decisions today that respect
our past and protect our future
What are the effects of technology on time and space?
Students will understand...
• How has technology changed our lifestyles? • How has technology bridged some distances and created
others?
How do time and space vary among cultures?
Students will understand...
• How do different cultures perceive time and space in
different ways? 2
Program of Activities THE MCCPS BAND under the direction of Ms. Adria Smith “Medieval Legend” composed by Michael Story “Saxology” by Eric Osterling
OPENING REMARKS by Nina Cullen-Hamzeh, Interim Academic Director & Emil Ronchi, Chair of the MCCPS Board of Trustees
STREET LATIN DANCE under the direction of Gregory Coles A selection of Latin dance including: Salsa, Chachacha, Merengue, and Bachata
A TIME FOR US the theme for “Romeo and Juliet” performed by the Sixth Grade
STUDENT EXHIBITIONS in grade level classrooms from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
3
4th Grade REGIONAL ROUNDUP
Each student has assumed the role of a State Specialist and Regional Expert responsible for researching, writing, and designing a state brochure. Each brochure describes and illustrates information that includes state history, landmarks, land forms and water forms, natural and manufactured resources, population, climate, and other interesting facts.
In Art, students created landscapes representing their states, using mixed media, and in Science students created resource maps of their states.
In Community Service Learning, each class composed letters sent to a charter school or elementary in their chosen state, using class-generated questions about community and learning in their school.
NON-FICTION READING: BIOGRAPHIES
Each student has acted as state biographer, focusing on a famous person who was born or lived in his/her state. After reading a biography of that person, students composed an “hourglass bio-poem” and “bio-doll” to represent the famous individual.
MODERN LANGUAGES
Students labeled cities, mountains, and rivers in French or Spanish on blank maps of France or Spain. Each student wrote a phrase in either French or Spanish describing five of the locations on their maps.
NUMBER PROJECT
Fourth grade mathematicians have each explored a number of their choice and designed a creative and original presentation for the number. The presentation will include important information about the number such as even or odd, factors, multiples, symbols in other number systems, as well as other significant or interesting information about the number. In art students created Jasper Jones inspired patterns to create a design visually 4
representing their number as well as making stamps using different materials and media. In Music class students composed original keyboard pieces and analyzed them through numbers. Notes on the scale, fingering, and beats will be numbered on the composition.
Look for student compositions that will hang on the wall. They are analyzed in numbers!
5th Grade PATTERNS
For your viewing pleasure the fifth grade proposes a display of samplers that they have cross-stitched to demonstrate their knowledge of symmetry and plotting points on a coordinate plane. They will also be showing movie trailers based on the book Savvy. Students have written poetic lyrics and set them to music that they composed. Some students will perform their songs tonight. On display will be a quilt with poems and 5
illustrations created by the students. Students labeled and described maps of Spain or France in their language of study.
Students have determined, examined, described, and provided examples of how patterns are present and necessary in nature. This was done through the demonstration of the water cycle, solar system, and lunar phases. Students have constructed dioramas or will perform experiments to demonstrate the pattern in nature they have chosen. They also prepared written and oral reports based on their topic.
Students have located and described how geometry and/or geometric patterns are used continually throughout everyday life. They created displays that examine examples of architecture and described how geometry influenced the design.
Mandala means “Circle ” in Sanskrit. After looking at various types of mandalas from different cultures, students have created their own mandala by measuring angles to divide a circle in equal parts and trace lines between intersecting points to create symmetrical shapes. From there, students used imaginations to elaborate on their designs.
6th Grade ROMEO AND JULIET
Students have examined several different adaptations of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet and explored the ways different authors/performers have changed, edited and adapted the story. Tonight in Charter Hall, groups of students will perform scenes from the original text. As a class, students will sing “A Time For Us”, the Romeo and Juliet theme song and “La Vie En Rose”, a song about being in love, at the beginning of the play.
G3 PUZZLES: GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, GEOMETRY
Students became geographers, geologists, geometers and cartographers and researched, designed and built a multifaceted puzzle on an European or Asian country. Tonight, students will share their knowledge of 6
European and Asian geography and geology through their puzzles, essays and Google Earth presentations. They will also communicate their understanding of the geometry involved in their puzzle. Guests will be challenged to complete the puzzles. As geographers, students studied different regions of France and created a book that features artistic emulations of the designs and techniques used by French Impressionists. The book chronicles a story about the different regions of France. In art, as geometers, students made tessellations by reflecting half designs on the sides on an equilateral triangle, to create other geometric shapes, ranging from a rhombus to a six-pointed star to a hexagon.
7th Grade NILE CRUISE
Come cruise the Nile River and visit exotic locations of ancient Egypt. Experience the culture, secrets of the pyramids, and captivating traditions of people who cultivated Egypt, Nubia and Israel. Learn about each city through student created journals, pharaoh essays, and informational displays. See for yourself a scaled version of the Great Pyramid of Cheops on the Giza Plateau and learn some fascinating mathematical mysteries. Behold the unique 21st century pyramid designs that are symbolic representations of the students, reflecting ancient traditions.
Explore the connections of Egyptian life through art, music and the sciences. Hear the stories of French Egyptologists who collected artwork for the Louvre during the mid-Nineteenth century, also the era of the French Impressionists. Appreciate parodies of ancient Egyptian tomb fresco paintings. These are contemporary scenes in the Egyptian style of painting. Experience the process of mummification and compare the organs of humans and frogs. 7
As you pass through make sure to read up on the planets through student created BIG BOOKS. Listen to a performance or two of an original keyboard or guitar musical composition of a planet.
View a public service announcement developed to educate the community on physical addictions that affect the organs and organ systems of the human body.
TABLE AUCTION
Bring your wallets!! Make bids on student made coffee tables in a silent auction. Students have been assigned roles and been given their own business job titles. They all have collaborated to design and build their tables in wood shop with Mr. Haddock. Ask students what their role is in their MCCPS business and information regarding their tables. All proceeds go towards the wood shop and the 7th grade classroom.
8th Grade INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY: INVENTIONS OF THE 1800’S
During the first half of the 19th century, America developed rapidly and industrially, going through what many historians call an industrial revolution. This revolution refers to a change from people making the things they needed primarily at home to goods being made by more complicated machines and in factories. Communication changed. Transportation changed. The production of various materials and goods changed. As a result, society also changed in many ways.
The eighth graders have been immersed in this time period and tonight will present information about the innovative technologies of the 1800’s. Each student has chosen a piece of technology and has written a research paper on its history and its connection to the Industrial Revolution. In researching the piece of technology, they also studied its engineering design. Students have drawn plans and have calculated their own scales. They have also built a model of their drawn plans. Watch the students present their
8
group projects on the World’s Fairs in Paris during the Industrial Revolution. They will perform a short French skit to accompany their posters and displays. In addition, students have broken down their topic into the “Universal System Model of Technology”, in which they identify the input, process, output, feedback, and resources. This model was created at MIT and is used worldwide. Lastly, the students were asked to be creative and present material learned in a creative graphic presentation. Some students have even created slide shows or sketches in a computer graphic program.
In addition, the students have done work in their music and art classes which connect to the topics and themes covered in other classes. For music, the students will present original musical compositions made using scales and techniques used in American 19th century music. For art, the students have explored the American Romantic art movement. 1830-1870 was a period of rapid growth in the US. Influenced by the Romantic movement and their awe of nature, some American artists started painting vast and majestic scenes of the American landscape. While these artists started painting around the Hudson River Valley, they quickly moved on to other areas of the US, especially the West, the Bahamas and even the Arctic. Tonight, the 8th grade students will present their drawings and paintings of American landscapes inspired by the Hudson River Valley school, who gave birth to the first American landscape style.
9
MCCPS Foundation
The MCCPS Educational Foundation is a registered 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the school. The mission of the Foundation is to develop community partnerships that enhance the resource capacity of MCCPS to deliver according to its fullest potential as an innovative public charter school.
This year the Foundation has funded thousands of dollars for new technology including the Rosetta Stone web-based language program for every student. The Foundation has also administered an earmarked donation that covered a substantial portion of the school’s debt service for the current fiscal year.
The trustees of the Foundation meet monthly to discuss potential donors, awards to the school and how to disseminate news about the good work being done at MCCPS. If you are interested in becoming a trustee, helping us achieve our goals or have suggestions of potential supporters please speak to Jeffrey Barry at the school or send him an email.
If you’d like to make a tax-deductible donation to the Foundation you can click on the fundraising tab on the school’s website or send a check to PO Box 1405, Marblehead, MA 01945. thank you for your support!
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