Academy Juniors in the Community
Academy juniors volunteered on a recent Saturday to assist alumna Laurie Wheeler, ’82 at the Arms Library in Shelburne Falls, along with Sra/Madame Valdez.
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News From The Academy at Charlemont
Black History Month: Week of February 20
2/20: President’s Day. School closed. 2/21: Stokely Carmichael’s “Black Power.” Full text here. 2/22. A speech by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor called “How We Get Free.” Full text here. 2/23. Excerpt from Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. Excerpt here. 2/24. Excerpt from Audre Lorde’s “The Uses of Anger.” Full text here.
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Learning to throw in Advanced Ceramics with Christy Knox.
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Sculptural Feltmaking with Fafnir Adamites.
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Latin Jazz with Jon Weeks. 22
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The Originals with Scott Helander – students working on their first original song of the semester.
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Computer Coding with Marco Almeida.
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Artistic Human Anatomy with Andrae Green.
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Audio Collage and Composition with George Langford.
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Seventh grade students in Climate Connections class study whether temperature affects the rate of chemical weathering. Each of the five groups of students had a single beaker of water, ranging in temperature from 5 to 45 degrees Celsius. They timed the dissolution of an antacid tablet and then graphed their results.
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