Global History at Evangel not only allowed students to explore the past, but equipped students to become critical and analytical thinkers. Our sessions enabled students to ask appropriate essential questions allowing thought-provoking discussions amongst students and peers. This resulted in healthy discussions of debate from all walks of life, culture, beliefs, and lifestyles in order to create well-rounded individuals to make ethical choices in their own lives.
Mr. Keeks
This year, tenth grade students studied the English Restoration & Neoclassicism, Victorian England, Realism, and Naturalism. We read classics like King Lear, Robinson Crusoe, Oliver Twist, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Some highlights included discussion of paradoxes, debating the stations of life and nature versus nurture, and writing a Regents-level Critical Lens Essay using the following quotation: “It is the responsibility of the writer to expose our grievous faults and failures and to hold up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.” (John Steinbeck)
Mrs. Foster
Shark Tank Meets High School Entrepreneurs
High School students created their own businesses. Our young entrepreneurs opened up a variety of creative businesses. From barber shops to book stores, from coffee shops to restaurants and more! It was interesting to see students take a hobby, interest, or something they were truly passionate about and turn it into a dream career. Once they had a carefully thought out business plan they designed a PowerPoint Presentation where they were able to approach the “sharks” (their classmates) in order to propose an investment from them.
Mr. Torres
It’s over?
The school year is over? Wow, how quickly it has come to an end. It’s been an interesting year teaching a bright group of international students from China and Korea. HS Intermediate English was our focus. Reading short stories, folk tales, anecdotes, how to read non-fiction, fiction, what reading strategies to use to understand the text, were some of the genres and concepts covered. I enjoyed this. What was most exciting for me were the many moments when the students reached the place were they were able to convey their opinions, and ideas in English. When they made connections with the text, their culture, their families, etc. and gained the confidence to express it was wonderful to experience. It was a great year discovering how very much alike we are. I remember a story on the life of Bruce Lee. Each text is introduced before reading, so when asked if they were familiar with this person, or if they had ever heard of him, I got some nods and a Yes or two. When we were finished reading the introduction, I added that he was my cousin. When this tid-bit of information was met with their laugther, I knew that they understood. Mrs. Hernandez
Typing Skills
Students focused on how to do research and search for reliable sources. They also did typing drills that targeted aspects and skills that they will use in college.
Mr. B
Current Events
The last quarter has been a whirlwind of work winding down to when summer releases students back to their countries of origin.
For the Nonfiction unit in 10th grade, we delved into how periodicals and current events are written and discovered the workings of the inverted pyramid structure for writing news stories and the magic of the 5W’s and H (who, what , when , where , why, and how). Groups presented their own scripted broadcast of a current news story while other students listened and recorded the 5 W’s and How from the presentation. Individually, each took a NYC post card and created their own story around the image producing an interesting variety of stories. Some were dramatic, some were historical, and some were fanciful but each was unique.
Mrs. Kemp
We had a wonderful Spring Program. Elementary students danced to Shout to the Lord, with streamers. The middle school danced to Go Fast, and high school danced and ministered the songs that they did in Hawaii. The high school electives also danced to I’m Free.
Mrs. Rosario
Lets Get Fit
Students had fun doing relay races with obstacle courses. They also did their annual physical fitness test. At the end of the school year we had a field day at the park.
Mrs. Rosario
We started in January by reading Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and then A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. During Oliver Twist, discussions focused on the theme that in order to have a successful society, we need to love and care for one another in the way that Christ shows us. Students worked on group projects investigating the Victorian time period to better understand the novel and characters. Students researched and organized mock-newspapers on Victorian England. During A Doll’s House, students focused on the roles of men and women and we discussed God’s standards. Students ended the year with a unit on poetry and a unit on short stories, where we looked at different poetic devices and aspects of short stories.
Jennifer Topale
Science Labs
In our science Lab we covered a lot of different topics. One of the first labs we did in September was to draw the Earth’s interior to scale.
Another lab we did later in May was called “Stepping out the Solar System.” In this lab students had to research one of the planets and report their findings to the class. Each student had to calculate how far from the Sun their planet would lie, using a scale of one meter = one million miles.
Mr. Loewenthal