history

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 [...]

Seniors have spent a lot of time with teachers over their many years at Beaver. Perhaps they have thought at one time or another that they could do just as good a job of leading a class as their teachers. A few students in Alex Gould’s senior elective Modern Controversies got to see just how [...]

Seventh graders have begun working on the culminating project of their school year, the Cultural Heritage Project (CHP), and they are using a wiki to keep themselves organized.
Students are asked to choose a country and a culture to explore then research the reasons that people from that culture came to America. Were the pushed out [...]

This year, Global History and Social Studies Chair Kader Adjou’s classes have participated in Skype video conversations with students in Afghanistan, Israel, and now South Korea.
On Thursday, March 11, Beaver students talked with students at Taegu Foreign Language High School in Seoul, South Korea. The conversation touched on South Korean perspectives on North Korea, U.S. presence in South Korea, [...]

Final exams usually conjure up images of students sitting at their desks, pencils in hand, darkening bubbles or writing in a blue book. Students in Melissa Catarra’s 10th grade U.S. history course were instead given a final assignment which asked them to examine the events they studied from different perspectives.
Here is one part of the [...]