// Curriculum Update: Week of Jan 28 //

This week, students learned that several ancient civilizations existed at the same time as Mesopotamia, including Persia, Egypt, China, India, Greece, and Rome. Over the next few weeks, students will be choosing a civilization to research and study independently. In Science, students are studying fungi, including its classification and different types of fungi. In Readers’ Workshop, students are learning about the hero’s journey as defined by Joseph Campbell, and are looking at how the same patterns and archetypes emerge in many familiar stories and myths. In Writers’ Workshop, students shared their memoirs in a publishing gathering with Orion and Perseus Rooms. They had a chance to read one another’s work and comment on their stories.