Dear Quest Parents and Students, We are embarking on a fascinating journey for your last year at Quest. I thought it would be helpful for you to have an overview of the year ahead. I look forward to sharing more… Continue Reading
Students began Holocaust literature circles this week. Each student is a member of a group that has selected one or two books to read. They meet at least four times during the next two weeks to answer questions and discuss… Continue Reading
Today 8F started on Holocaust literature so they can begin reading over tech week. We looked at the Milgram and Stanford Prison experiments to try and understand how entire societies can act unethically. This week students read their children’s books… Continue Reading
While reading Animal Farm, we learned that using allegories with complex ideas can make the ideas much easier to understand. With that goal in mind, the eighth graders wrote their own allegories about major economic events in the U.S. The… Continue Reading
How is that for an enigmatic blog title? Today the eighth graders tried to convince their fellow classmates that something that had little worth was actually worth something. I based this challenge on an anecdote in Predictably Irrational, a book… Continue Reading
The eighth grade is presenting poets and poetry to the class. Today we had a wild debate about why Smokey the Bear would start a forest fire. Ask your students about the poet Billy Collins today.
Thank you for reviewing your students’ All Quiet on the Western Front essays. I am trying to get students into the practice of having someone look at their writing before they turn it in. Although I always have my students revise… Continue Reading
Today students were paired together to review one another’s essay for All Quiet on the Western Front. They are tasked to have an adult read their essays tonight. I am trying to prepare them for high school, where they will… Continue Reading
Which poem best represents WWI? That was the question before our two student judges today. Sara and Winston had to decide which poem to add to a “textbook.” The choices were “Break of Day in the Trenches,” “Dulce Et Decorum… Continue Reading
Watch as 8F tries to stop WWI from happening. Each student is an ambassador from a European power. Each student has a list of demands from his/her country, but their overall goal is to stop the war.