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February 10, 2022
Middle School students perform in honors concert
Ten Middle School seventh and eighth graders were chosen to represent Seven Hills in the OMEA honors choir at Princeton High School on Jan. 29. They joined more than 100 other students from schools in the Cincinnati area to workshop and perform several selections together. Students were given music and rehearsal recordings to learn their music and refine their parts during homeroom before spending the day rehearsing with the other students. The choir performed a concert for their families later that evening.
Sixth graders think outside the box at the innovation lab
Sixth graders designed cardboard boxes that contain rotating wooden rods and wheels, that when turned, moved figures standing on top of their boxes during Karen Glum’s innovation lab. Students collaborated in small groups to create their scenes. Some students focused on creating their figures, which ranged from flying fish to the Milky Way solar system, while others experimented with the size and shape of the wooden rods and wheels.
Seventh graders learn about stock market dynamics
Seventh graders are learning first-hand the trials and thrills of the stock market during teacher Doug Huff’s class. After learning how and why the stock market has changed through the last century, students participated in a stock market simulation game. Students strategized how they should diversify their portfolios, and whether they should be more aggressive and increase their chances for higher profits, or be more cautious and decrease their chances of losing money. The students will spend two days following their stocks, with the ability to sell their shares or buy more before the market closes.
Sixth grade Latin class decipher codes
Sixth grade Latin students decoded different types of puzzles to learn the 12 labors of Hercules. Students in world language teacher Marcie Handler’s class are learning Latin through stories set in Herculaneum, a city that was destroyed along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E. To learn more about the city, its culture and language, students explored the myth behind the name of the city: the 12 labors of the hero Hercules.
Middle School students differentiate between figurative and literal language
Middle School students in teacher Chris Caldemeyer’s creative writing class analyzed the power and usage of literal and figurative language to create clarity in their narratives with a lesson about ways to convey pain or discomfort. “Learning to write well isn’t just about placing a comma or using the perfect word; it’s about personal exploration. Figurative language is the road by which students get there,” Caldemeyer said. Students discussed the nature of figurative language in a fellow student’s poem and concluded figurative language could convey a personal pain to an outside in ways a literal description may not.
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Five Stingers from the Class of 2024 signed their letters of intent to continue their athletic careers in college.
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