This unit explores the fiction genre through an abridged version of Treasure Island. Students focus on character development, setting, plot, and literary devices while tracing key elements throughout the novel. They draft a character sketch and write, revise, and share an original adventure story, focusing on character development, dialogue, and verb choice. Students also learn relative pronouns, the suffixes -ful and -less, and the root bio, while continuing to work with modal auxiliary verbs and coordinating conjunctions.

Working on a project that will touch on reading, writing, and math as well as cooking and time management skills. The goal will be to plan a party from it's origin. Make grocery lists, budget and factor in details like allergies and head count of the guests. The planning would include being at our home, serving food to guests and planning an activity for one child hosting a group of 1st-3rd grade age kids.

Spanish language learning for Spanish 1. Unit on Fruits and vegetables, meat and fish, bread and condiments, in the restaurant, desserts and drinks Discussion of Mexican food, culture of corn in Mexico, Mercado San Cristobal de las Casas

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Students will design and build a jewel inspired on the beauty of Geometry. They will get inspiration from geometric shapes and beauty, and with that inspiration they will design a 3D sketch of a jewel. Then they will use 3D printer to build the jewel. In order to estimate the price of the jewel they will calculate the volume of the jewel, and they will finally build the jewel through a lost-wax casting process.

Implement a weather station project, where students build instruments to measure and record weather patterns, analyzing data as part of their science and math curriculum.

Create an economics and personal finance 12th grade class studying investing and the stock trade

Create a children's book for students in a multidisciplinary class of 9th graders studying beginning Spanish and visual arts. The project should include practice of salutations, introductions, taking leave , days of the week, months numbers, weather and basic questions such as where is the supermarket or how much does the ticket cost, etc