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1. Jeremi Yoo, Taegyu Brad Uhm, Rikumu Shigeta, and Kevin Youm complete a review set about vectors together. Students
in geometry class learned topics ranging from graphing parabolas to calculating the volume of spheres. 2. Jeffer Ward

highlights the main points of an article to help him write a succinct summary of it. Lower Secondary English students consistently practiced how to summarize large texts quickly and accurately. 3. Jaime Suh listens to
the teacher lecture about the Chinese Communist Revolution. Students were expected to take notes in
their individual Google documents during class. 4. Ekagra Tomar completes a worksheet about
adding fractions. Students practiced doing basic calculations without relying on a calculator.
5. Mrs. Smith listens to Sally Kwon, Luke Won, and Monica Park reflect on the first
couple of chapters of ‘The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle’. Students completed a
bell-ringer at the beginning of every class to refresh their memory on the assigned
readings. 6. Navodit Maheshwari presents the poster his group made about
the term “point of view.” For the bell ringer activity, the students created posters explaining literary concepts such as “plot” and “theme”
in their own words. 7. Ghayeon Kim reviews the first chapter
of ‘The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle’ to complete
the assigned class activity. The objective was to select
and analyze quotes from the first and second
chapter that foreshadow future events.
8. Ms. Chey shows Ethan Park how to
solve an algebra problem. Lower
Secondary math students
had to write all of their
working processes
to receive full
marks.

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English Language and Literature is driven by student growth
in a way that extends beyond
the improvement of the English
language.

This course motivates
students to develop as a person
by learning to work with others
and gaining confidence in themselves.

For the English Language
and Literature 7, many students
felt that group projects were
most enjoyable in their class.
Sana Desai, seventh-grader, said,
“I like how we do several activities in this class. We usually do
group work.”

She felt that presentations
were the most fun type of
group work “because you get to
cooperate with other people and

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something we
know to the class.”
Julie Lee, in seventh grade,
explained that students were
provided with the opportunity
“to present topics” and “think
about what we’re actually going
to do in the next unit.”

Julie also expressed that she
liked group presentations,

“because we get to get
more ideas from it and
we also cooperate; we
get to learn things we
don’t know from other
people.”

Group presentations are a
way for students to learn how to
build team chemistry and develop their ability to work with one
another.

Brendan Hodge, an
eighth-grader, explained it as an
opportunity to “learn [how] to
express ourselves.”

Reflecting back on the past
10 years, English has always been
a course thriving through various
activities. In 2012, seventh-grade

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sat in a circle
during the month
of October, sharing scary
stories in that dark that they had
written. The students only had
one light to illuminate the room
to provide the creepy atmosphere for the reading.

In 2013, students divided
difficult words to divide their syllables using a clapping exercise.
In this exercise, a clap was executed at the end of each syllable
as the students spoke the word.

During the 2014- 2015
school year, the English classes
strongly encouraged reading
by cutting out parts of class for
silent reading and presenting the
Accelerated Reader (AR) award
to students who achieved their
personal reading goals.

In 2016, seventh-graders
exercised open-mindedness in
the areas of attitude, social beliefs, and point of views through
the book, “The True Confessions
of Charlotte Doyle”. By writing
journals while role playing as
people of Doyle’s time, students
discussed how concepts, like
the job availability of men and
women, affect daily life today.

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