By Ryley Just
SILVERDALE--Moving westward! In all five of DJ Sweet’s history classes there is a westward expansion project going on. All of the classes are doing a project to show younger kids what it was like to be involved in the westward expansion. There are many different choices of projects. Students could make a board game, make a craft, design a video game etc. Sweet gave all his classes four weeks to complete and present the project. Some classes will be showing their projects to sixth graders, and the others will be presenting to kids from Silver Ridge. Every week Sweet acts as the boss to check in with every group to see what they have gotten done. He wants to make sure everybody is making a kid-friendly project that helps kids learn more about why and how the people moved west. Story by Lexie Fortney
Recently, students from the secondary schools in Central Kitsap School District attended the Distinguished Readers’ Ceremony at Klahowya Secondary School. The students who participated in the club and read 10 books were recognized by staff and guest speaker Martha Brockenbrough. Martha Brockenbrough was a speaker at the ceremony and a current author, along with students from different schools: RMS, Klahowya secondary School, Fairview, Olympic High School, and both CK Middle School and High School. The two speakers from Ridgetop were Michelle Polo and Lexie Fortney, who are both seventh graders. There were many students who participated in Ridgetop’s Distinguished Readers’ club. The 5 students reading the most books were: eighth grader Alanna Lopez with 12 books logged, seventh grader Autumn Yi with 13, seventh grader Michelle Polo with 20, seventh grader Lexie Fortney with 21, and the student with the most books read by far was eighth grader Olivia Holland with 38 books logged! Next year, students of all grades can join the Distinguished Readers’ club. It is every month on the second Wednesday. The requirement to go to the Ceremony, is to have logged 10 books by the end of March. By Keana Quitlong
SILVERDALE -- Our eighth grader Honors History and ELA (English Language Arts) teacher, Stephanie Render had both of her history classes start an assignment based on the immigration in the Washington state. The main goal of the project was to learn more about the culture in Washington through picture analyzation and to infer what the immigrants did in the past and why they decided to move in the state. When the students did their project, they had to choose a specific culture from either Chinese, Irish, Scandinavian, Hawaiian Kanakas, German, Italian, and the Japanese immigrants. They had to find pictures based on their lives in their home country and their lives in Washington and paste those pictures onto a poster board. “We do so much writing that anytime I can find lessons that can appeal to visual learners, I would like to try and use it,” said Render. She liked the idea of using visual images for others to learn, considering students can learn information by looking at a picture. “I felt it was complicated and challenging at some parts in the project, especially things specific to Washington,” said eighth grader Michaela Tran, after being asked what was the challenging part of her project. The project wasn’t easy, mostly for the students who chose a culture that wasn’t entirely well known to Washington State. For the past two weeks, the posters have been up in the hallways for others to look at. |
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