Poetry Collage – Poetry in Reading for the Logic Stage III
Students in Reading for the Logic Stage III completed “Poetry Collages” where they used lines from works in Poetry 180 to create their own poems. Students were to consider the
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Writing & Grammar
Way to go WTMA Math Club!
Congratulations to the Math Club for the Rhetoric Stage for their outstanding performance in all 6 Math League competitions. Well-Trained Mind Academy placed on the list of high scoring schools
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Math
Clubs
Driving Home in the Rain – A Poem by Sophia Hoff
Sophia Hoff’s poem, “Driving Home in the Rain,” was written for Creative Writing for the Logic Stage. Teacher Lori Huth says of her writing, “There are many wonderful things about
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Writing & Grammar
Literary Secret Santa: Showering Lawrence Selden
This year in Scholars’ Seminar, one unit’s culminating project assignment asked students to create a customized holiday gift and design thematically appropriate wrapping paper for a character selected from one
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Literature
Literary Secret Santa: A Present for Pip
This year in Scholars’ Seminar, one unit’s culminating project assignment asked students to create a customized holiday gift and to design thematically appropriate wrapping paper for a character selected from
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Literature
Reading for the Logic Stage Body Biography
Students in Dr. Roudabush’s Reading for the Logic Stage III class completed a “Body Biography” this Spring for the character “Sade” in Bevery Naidoo’s The Other Side of Truth. A
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Literature
French Cinema à la WTMA
After spending an entire unit learning the vocabulary around cinema and film-making, our French III level students had fun with a unit project that consisted of making their own short
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World Language
Well-Trained Mind Academy 2023 Nature Sketchbook Club Badges
The Nature Sketchbook Club was busy this year sketching plants, birds, and the sky! Badges were awarded in the fall for students who completed each set of requirements. Students who
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Clubs
High School Astronomy Movie: Life Cycle of Stars
Here’s a delightful student video to start the year. Enjoy watching Misha Sharpe’s stop-motion movie about the life cycle of stars, which was created for his high school Astronomy class
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Science
Telescopes & Owl Eyes in High School Astronomy
Check out how Abigail G. answered one of the weekly discussion questions – Why do nocturnal animals usually have large pupils in their eyes? How is that related to the way
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Science