Ladies and Gentlemen! Save the date —June 1st, 2012— for our end-of-year showcase where you will be able to see music and theater performances, art, photography and video!!
Rhinelander Visits BCAL
Guest Blogger: Irene Gilbert, Service Learner
BCAL hosted a unique College Access experience. 40 hearing impaired teens visited
BCAL last Saturday had a wonderful time. We augmented the scavenger hunt and showed hip hop videos which incorporated American Sign Language (ASL). The students were able to explore the college campus with the guidance of college service learners and interpreters. The teens were full of energy and were such a joy to be with, hopefully this won’t be their last visit to BCAL.
Spelling out the team name in ASL
Group photo!
Revolution! An exhibit about the American, French and Haitian Revolutions
We have a special club here at Walt Whitman called, “Haitian Crew.” It’s a space for our Haitian students to get together and talk about their shared heritage, their common challenges, and sometimes to just have fun, eat pizza and play soccer. We recently went on a trip to the NY Historical Society to see the exhibit, “Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn.” The students had a great time and learned, hands-on, about their history.
Alison, Jeff, Ronald, Jeff, Kristelle, Shelsa, Wildina, Saqr, Rodley, Isaac, Medjine, Dodley, Sebastien, Claire, Berlie, and Hadja
Acronyms
How do you think students communicate with each other on social networks using acronyms affect their work performance in school and their writing?
Boy’s Club at the African Burial Ground National Monument
Kindersley Louis, Jeff Jean, Thales Norzeus, Meshac Fontus, Damar Weir, Cedric Desormeaux and Jonathan Riviere
From about the 1690s until 1794, both free and enslaved Africans were buried in a 6.6-acre burial ground in Lower Manhattan, outside the boundaries of the settlement of New Amsterdam, later known as New York. Lost to history due to landfill and development, the grounds were rediscovered in 1991 as a consequence of the planned construction of a Federal office building. Dane Peters, our athletics supervisor and boy’s club facilitator, brought the boy’s club to the museum and memorial to learn about the history of this sacred space.
