![]() It matters that what our students experience in our classrooms, especially our students of color, reflects and affirms their identities. Typically, my blog provides a weekly window into the student experience at Brooks. So, if you're interested, please be in touch with Mrs. She even provided a list of contacts for possible internships, and camps. ![]() She answered students' questions about what to study and how to gain experience in the fields of science, history and language. Zaia also talked about the pattern of her year, which involves excavations in Egypt during the winter and underwater archaeology in the Mediterranean during the summers. The deceased had curved femur bones from riding horses, and was buried with many arrowheads and a ritual bronze knife featuring the image of a ram. Zaia talked about the coolest site she ever uncovered, which was a tomb in Kazakhstan dedicated to a knighted warrior, constructed as a pit with a stone superstructure over it. candidate in Archaeology Sara Zaia (below), who Zoomed with the class from Italy! Her concentration is on long distance trade in Egypt and the Red Sea region, though she has participated in digs all over the world. Today in Pre-Modern World History, students enjoyed a visit from Harvard University Ph.D. Bruschi shared that last year, Advanced Rock Band performed 17 songs! In different stages of the creative process, some were on the wheel, whereas others were working on glazing their initial creations.Īdvanced Rock Band was fresh off their incredible Family Weekend performance, and with only one class under their belts in the time since, they were deep into practicing their next song: "Hall of Fame," by The Script. McLoughlin's budding ceramicists were practicing their first attempts at throwing mugs and pots. Now that they have learned basic woodworking skills and how to read drawings, they will design and create their own drawings for a small toy. They received the drawings and materials, and then students figured out for themselves how to cut and assemble all the pieces, before finishing, sanding and painting the structures. Spollett, students were independently constructing bird houses. This morning I took a first period tour through the Center for the Arts. I am grateful to Brooks for the opportunity to provide the same chance to another generation of students! It opened up the world as an expansive, inspiring and culturally rich classroom and showed me just how much there is to learn. Travel changed my life when I was a high school student. ![]() Along the way, olives and octopus galore were eaten, many photographs were taken, and countless memories were made in a beautiful country! To close the trip, we headed to the university town of Coimbra for some shopping, before checking out the Batalha monastery on our return to Lisbon. There we toured the palace, climbed up a clock tower, and learned how Port wine is made. Next we walked the fortifications at Óbidos, before arriving in Porto. Our journey then took us north to the coastal towns of Cascais, Nazaré and Aveiro, where respectively we enjoyed a scenic bicycle ride, trip to a surf museum and lighthouse and a gondola ride to learn about the local salt industry. We continued on to Évora to see the Roman temple of Diana and the Chapel of the Bones, with a special stop to Monsaraz Castle at sunset. George’s Castle, Belém Tower and the Jerónimos Monastery before enjoying a traditional Fado concert. We then crossed the Atlantic and landed in sunny Lisbon, where we canvassed the historic district, and visited St.
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