// curriculum update: week of May 3 //

Students continue to grow their knowledge of plant classification and have learned about flowering and non-flowering plants., as well as the roots of plants and their function. In History, they have been reading and taking notes about groups of hunters and gathers in pre-historic America. Students have continued reading and writing poetry. They learned about the literary device of voice, and about the distinctions between lyrical, narrative, and dramatic voice. Students were also introduced to odes, notably from Pablo Neruda’s “Odes to Common Things,” and are working on writing their own odes to ordinary objects. In Language, students had a lesson about active and passive voice, and when it is useful to use each one.