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High School 9th and 10th grade students explored the suspense genre this trimester, reading The Telltale Heart and The Monkey's Paw and listening to the classic radio play Sorry Wrong Number.

The students decided to write and perform their own original version of The Monkey's Paw as their Showcase project.

This trimester, Middle School students read and analyzed the books, Julie of the Wolves and Touching Spirit Bear. Each book is set in the Arctic tundra. To help understand that terrain and ecosystem, the students participated in a National Geographic Explorer Classroom webinar about the Alaskan Tundra with students from around the world.  Two Birch middle school students were selected to be some of the “on air” students for this presentation, and were able to ask questions during the session.  You can see Spencer ask his question at 27:33 and Oliver asks his question at 35:30.   Before the webinar the class discussed what question to ask and chose these questions for our class representatives to pose live.