Students will be exhibiting work from Chemistry, Humanities, Math, French and Spanish. Here is what you can expect to experience at the Extravaganza:
Chemistry
Throughout the first semester students learned about chemistry through the lens of construction materials-building on the excitement for our new campus. As a culmination and extension of their studies, students are presenting and soliciting feedback on prototypes of educational exhibits that may eventually be installed as permanent features of the new campus. The educational exhibits will showcase high-performance aspects of the new campus that contribute to its environmental sustainability or enhance the wellness of its users-the students and staff. The exhibits will also explain the underlying chemistry of the building materials that contribute to sustainability or user wellness. The students' work is helping Animas High School achieve its CHPSs sustainability certification.
Humanities
Juniors have been exploring American democracy through the lenses of ideology and rhetorical studies. They will be presenting projects that express perspectives on issues important to them as young Americans in a variety of genre such as oratory, art, and writing. The projects seek to employ “Rogerian” rhetorical strategy, a mode of argumentation that seeks to find common ground and work toward mutual understanding.
PreCalculus
This semester, students have spent their time in Precalculus exploring the parallel studies of Coordinate and Synthetic Geometry, while developing their logical abilities through the application of Proof. Their most recently completed unit centers around an extremely complex question: "How long before there are no lines of sight out of an orchard?" In order to answer this bigger question students needed to answer a variety of smaller questions about the relationships between points, lines, circles, triangles, polygons, and three dimensional polyhedrons. They have developed the circle formulas, and built upon prior knowledge about trigonometry and the Pythagorean Theorem. Throughout the semester students worked on several larger projects involving proofs of the different relationships that exist between circles and triangles, and have produced beautiful, airtight arguments supporting their claims. For exhibition, they will be displaying a piece of work of their choosing, something that they believe best represents their growth as mathematicians during the first half of their junior year.
Spanish 2
Students in Susy’s Spanish 2 classes created Calaveras Literarias (poems and skeletons inspired by José Guadalupe Posada’s printmaking from the era of the Mexican Revolution) in order to expand our knowledge and awareness about the sacred and colonial roots behind Dia de Los Muertos, to personalize our use of Spanish, and to display our skills in the art of conjugating verbs.
French 2
French 2 students will be exhibiting their Petits Livres de la Mode books, which feature 4 Croquis (or fashion designs) along with the characters that inhabit those outfits, each in a different setting and season. This is our preparatory project showing how we can describe people, places, clothing and weather in preparation for next semester, when we'll do the Fashion Project.
Despite being Ospreys for 2.5 years, this will be the juniors first major multi-subject exhibition. Please help them make up for 'lost time' by being a real-world audience for their work by engaging with them in meaningful dialogue about important issues, providing critique on their exhibit prototypes and celebrating the richness of project-based learning. We look forward to seeing you all!
Sincerely,
Julian, Steve, Jessica and Susy
