Week Twenty Five - JCOWA/Posters/Chinese

This Week

This has been a really exciting (albeit FAST) week! On Monday I took many of our 10th graders to the University of Dayton where students competed in the annual Quiz Bowl competition. Long story short - we won first place for the second year in a row! On top of our successes, we also had a great time.

Mr. Lydy, Tyler, Vidur, Tess, and David will be representing Dayton in DC this year! Check out the JCOWA FB page here.

Some of our newest JCOWA members at their first Quiz Bowl. Check out more pictures on our FB page.

That was just on Monday though. We also worked on posters all week (and will be working into the next one as well). Below are some highlights from the poster process.

Linoleum block carving - safety first!

Inking the posters

As if working on posters wasn't enough, we also had a really fun field trip to Wright State for the Chinese Immersion day. I love chaperoning on this trip each year, it's always a lot of fun!

See? Told you so.

The DEP 2 students performed for other area schools as well, nice work everyone!

We had a big group this year! Find more pictures on our FB page.

Upcoming Week

Next week we will be finishing up posters and starting on our next unit: Globalization. On Friday we will have a special guest speaker come and talk to the students about how Globalization and Emerging Epidemics (which is both a topic that students are studying in their other classes and the title of a book they'll be reading in Language Arts) interact and shape the world in which we live. This is a particularly timely topic with everything that's gone on in the news in recent months about Ebola. In this unit students will explore what globalization is (both from an economic, societal, and cultural standpoint) and how it has happened, debate whether it's good or bad, and try to grapple with what can be done to reduce the negative externalities caused by globaliztion. It should be an enlightening unit for all of us, especially since this is the first time I've taught this as part of an integrated unit on diseases!

Lastly, we've confirmed a date/location/time for our poster exhibition! Students will be unveiling their posters at Wright State University's Educational Resource Center on March 18th at 5PM. They will be auctioning off work to raise money for international aid organizations in order to help those living through conflict zones around the world today. Please put this event on your calendars now!

Have a great weekend.

~Mr. Grieve