Today Mary Heller Osgood was my substitute, as I was at a meeting with other Heads of School from Putney talking about community service. Mary had been the 7th grade teacher a few years ago and had a great day. She finished up with small groups reporting out on Supreme Court Cases and then started the lesson on "What is a constitutional government".
We will finish the lesson on Tuesday and then take a detour for a week or two and begin our study of the continent of Africa, in particularly the Maasai culture. This years school wide Global Education Theme will be about Tanzania and Kenya. As you know, in general, the continent is struggling politically, economically and climatically. This weeks homework assignment in the Upfront magazine points out some rays of hope for some of the countries on this continent.
We will compare how these countries are fairing compared to Tanzania, Leyeyo's place of birth. Paul and Sarah and Leyeyo will be doing an all school presentation on October 18 (more details to come), and we will be starting to read the book, "Facing the Lion".
In between we will continue our American Studies continuing to focus on the "constitution" and current events anx awaiting a date for our first class with Ken Burns.
The homework is to read pages 8-11 for Tuesday!
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