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This winter the Upper School play will look a little different. Instead of the traditional 10 weeks of rehearsal leading up to two nights of shows, the performing arts department will produce a 3-episode video series which will culminate with a live on-stage finale on Thursday, February 11 at 7:30 p.m.
During the term, students will [...]

Students in Jen Sobel’s elective “Spanish V: Art, Music, and Dance” don’t just learn the language, they learn the Spanish culture as well. For one project, a small group of students represented and reenacted one of Spanish painter Franciso Goya’s Capricho prints. The resulting video produced by seniors Joanna Georgakas, Emma Marshall and Rachel Maltz [...]

Beaver’s modern language department offers a unique class titled Spanish for Native Speakers. This course offers Spanish-speaking students the opportunity to study Spanish formally in an academic setting in the same way that native English-speaking students study English language arts. In this course students review grammar structures and develop academic vocabulary that will help them critically [...]

The power of social networking and web 2.0 was on display in English teacher Sarah Akhtar’s senior elective on memoir. Students were reading Mary Karr’s 1995 memoir The Liars’ Club and were so moved that they wondered if there was any way to get The New York Times bestselling author visit their class to talk about [...]