Week of March 3rd

Friday is a staff development day, therefore there will be no school for students on March 7th. The rest of the week, though abbreviated, will be jam packed.

On Monday all 9th grade students will be participating in an all day election activity. We will start the day with some background on the two democratic candidates as well as some insight into the role Rhode Island might play in the Democratic nomination, despite being the smallest state in the union. Then the students will design a survey to get a pulse on where voters stand. As a group they will need to create quality questions and an easy to use survey that will get the information they want without offending or turning off their potential respondents. We will also try to collect some demographic information so that when the data is compiled we will be able to look for voting trends based on age, race, gender, etc. Next the students will briefly role play how they plan to approach people in public. After that we’ll break into small groups and hit the streets to go survey the public and collect data. Following lunch we will compile the data, graph it, analyze our results, and present our findings to the other groups. On Wednesday we will follow up on this activity by comparing our survey results to the actual results from the primary.

In addition to wrapping up the election activity on Wednesday, we will also be finishing our unit on Black History Month by completing an art project with Andrea Good. Andrea is our artist in residence, she is currently working with students to create a sustainable creative arts program for the kids. You can check out some of her professional work at her website:

http://agooddesign.com

On Tuesday I will be traveling with Steve and a small group of students to the Basketball Hall of Fame. I am an avid basketball fan and I have been playing organized basketball since 8th grade but I have never been to this landmark in Springfield. It should be a very exciting trip.

Thursday will be a normal internship day. Also, congratulations to Seana, she started her internship last week at the Sports Information Office at Salve Regina University. Check out the blog from Saturday, March 1st to read more about some student internships.

Have a great week!