Middle School

Grades 6-7 Humanities
Teacher: Ray Schneider
Grade 6/7 classes have been learning
about the Russian Revolution and
Civil War between the years of 1905
and 1925 in Humanities class. To
show their knowledge of the central
themes and concepts of this
tumultuous time period in Russian
history, students chose between
various projects, such as creating a
diary with several entries from the
perspective of a Russian living at that
time, writing a poem or a rap about
the revolution or writing a skit and
acting out a scene during the Russian
Revolution.
Top: Sarah Hoeing and Nick
Steenbergen used various props, wigs
and beards to perform their skit
Rasputin and the Queen.
Left second row: Mascha Pommerencke
and Janine Rosenkranz performed a
rap entitled Russian Revolution Rap.
Mascha and Janine also put the rap
to music.
Right second row: Gianna Malloy and
Genevieve Allen acted out a skit
entitled Bloody Sunday, which showed
the mistakes that the last Czar
Nicholas II made in the lead-up to
the Revolution and his abdication.
Left third row: Drake Potter and Aden
Brown recited their poem/rap about
the reasons for Czar Nicholas II’s
unpopularity that ultimately led to
his downfall.
Right third row: Cedric Donie
performed the rap Bloody Sunday,
which he wrote and put to music by
himself.
Irene Garcia, Harry Higham and
Liana Weber acted out their skit
entitled The Tzar’s Family.
Students explored the causes and
effects of revolution and the positive
and negative consequences of
revolution. The theme of revolution
has been a very current one for
students, given the events in North
Africa and the Middle East.
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Middle School
Grades 6, 7 and 8 Homeroom
Teachers: Ray Schneider and Dr. Paul Muskett
Middle School students used Chalk Talk, one thinking routine from
Project Zero’s Visible Thinking Project, to share organizational ideas
and advice with one another. The two homerooms met together
later to discuss what had been written down on the small-group
mind-maps.