The school year program began the third week in September. While we continue to work with Mr. Basmajian and Ms. Marlowe, we have three new after school teachers. We do math with Mr. Fisher and Mr. Older, and language arts with Ms. Welsh and Mr. Fisher. We are just finishing reading and acting out Monster by Walter Dean Myers. The story is told in film script form and set largely in a court room. It is particularly real to the 8th graders because of the visit they made last summer to Judge Berger's court last summer.
On October 25th some students, including returning 9th graders Bethany Dillard and LaShandalese Johnson, went to the Newseum in Washington, D.C. It is an interactive museum dedicated to the 1st Amendment of the Constitution. We went to a 4D movie, saw a display of Pulitzer Prize winning photos as well as pieces of the Berlin Wall and the World Trade Center. Some of us got to be newscasters, too. One of the highlights of our visit was watching KAL, an editorial cartoonist, draw quick caricatures of political figures. Many of us got to take his original art home. Afterwards we took a bus tour of D.C.
