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		<title>Beaver Students in Senegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seventeen Beaver students and three faculty chaperones recently returned from a French immersion and service trip to Senegal.
Students lived with local families in the city of St. Louis. Every morning they worked in kindergarten classes and a talibes (street children) program tutoring up to 40 children in math and French. In addition, they helped with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Update from Costa Rica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The group of students and three teachers who have spent the last ten days on an organic farm in Costa Rica are heading home. Here is the final update from the group:
We left the farm this morning and are staying at a hotel not far from the airport. We spent the weekend checking out a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update from Costa Rica</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 20 Beaver students are spending their first weeks of summer vacation in Costa Rica living and working on an organic farm. In addition to working, students use this experience as an opportunity to immerse themselves in the Spanish language. Teachers Tiffany Marsh, John Schatz, and Elisha Cho are accompanying the group on this annual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grammar Videos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ninth grade students in Robin Neal&#8217;s English class used video as a way to learn and teach others about grammar.
Working in groups, students were assigned a grammar topic such as mastering the colon, comma rules, and avoiding fragment and run-on sentences. Students worked to become experts on their topics and produce short videos explaining their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The North End Project</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2010/05/the-north-end-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 14:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston&#8217;s North End is known for its food &#8212; specifically its Italian food. But, as Beaver&#8217;s sixth grade class discovered,  the community is much more than that.
Recently the class visited the North End as part of its study of immigration, assimilation, and immersion in American culture. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the North End [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NuVu Movie Studio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The spring NuVu program is in the home stretch and students are busy completing the &#8220;Filming the City&#8221; studio coached by award-winning filmmaker Alla Kovgan.
During the first days of the studio, students watched a few of Ms. Kovgan&#8217;s films and discussed the filmmaking process. The first week also featured a visit from Leonard Retel Helmrich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seventh Graders Research Immigration Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 13:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The seventh grade concluded a six-week long project on immigration with the Cultural Heritage Project (CHP) Festival on May 19.  A capstone project in the grade’s U.S. history curriculum, the CHP challenges each student to research a country, focusing on why and how its people emigrated to the U.S.  (Many students choose countries of their family’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Modern Slavery Project</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2010/05/the-modern-slavery-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 17:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It all started with a student’s question in a 10th grade English class.
The class was reading Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, and Asa Welch ’12 asked teacher Robin Neal, “Aren’t we going to do something?”
A different teacher might have given a cursory answer about how slavery is an age-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Probing pH</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 21:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students in Lynn Bastoni&#8217;s seventh grade science class have put away the old pH testing strips that many of us are familiar with in favor of high-tech pH probes.
During their study of acidity and basicity, students filled a beaker with water and slowly added lemon juice. A probe connected to students&#8217; computers was inserted into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NuVu: Music &amp; the City Project Demos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 19:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NuVu students presented their final projects for the Music and the City studio today before an audience of classmates, the NuVu coaches and guest experts from MIT.
Using software like Drawdio and Scratch, and combining electrical circuits, duct tape, copper strips, audio components, infared LEDs, and a Wii remote, they made a musical sounds with some [...]]]></description>
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