Welcome to the 8th-grade, Families! We are so happy to meet you, Class of 2021!
Congratulations to Ella and Leni! Both were awarded Honorable Mention by the nationally acclaimed Scholastic Art and Writing Contest where thousands of middle and high school students compete in various art and writing genres. Ella was acknowledged for her personal essay "Totally Fine" and Leni for her personal essay "Enough."
Congratulations to Barbara, Sam, Isaiah, and all of the other Students Run LA participants!
Thanks for representing and bringing it! Four of the five finalists were our 8th-graders--Fiamma, Angela, Dylan, Leo, Hyunwoo, and Alex.
From Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson:
"You will each pick a piece of paper out of the globe...On the paper you will find one word, the name of an object. I hope you like it. You will spend the rest of the year learning how to turn that object into a piece of art...But there’s a catch--by the end of the year, you must figure out how to make your object say something, express an emotion, speak to every person who looks at it. " Mr. Freeman