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Ninth Grade Students present engaging Paris Trip Projects at Experiential Education Night
Last week, nearly one hundred people packed the Isham Library for project sharing by the students from the 4th Annual Ninth Grade Trip. Trip leader, Upper School English Instructor, and LBS Experiential Education Coordinator Dr. Ashley Tidey hosted the event with the aid of Kevin Shertzer, trip chaperone, history teacher, and soccer coach. This relaxed and informative evening for students and their parents involved a physical gallery of creative projects along with more than a dozen student presentations that ranged from the French Resistance in World War II to French rap, street art, and modern fashion. At once individualistic and heavily influenced by advance research in English and history classes, the projects gave students a chance to express themselves while collaborating on an ambitious group effort.
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Among the many presentations was Kate Spaulding ’21, who opened with a thoughtful and scholarly account of what made the French Resistance distinctive. Then heads turned to the other side of the room for Elizabeth Bisno’s ’21 presentation of her Hemingway’s desk assemblage, which sported a vintage typewriter, a half smoked cigar, and an assortment of other objects symbolizing the author’s Paris residency. Bella Cairone ’21 explored the evolution of Yves Saint-Laurent from Christian Dior’s assistant to revolutionary designer, crediting the glamorous pants suits of his “smoking collection” with empowering women after the Second World War.
“The powerful combination of the trip and the research projects shifts the attitudes of our youngest upper school students in dozens of ways that will only benefit them as they engage more deeply in the school curriculum and in life,” says Dr. Donelan, humanities program director.
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