By:Shawn Leary Considine
We all gathered at Lenox Memorial High School and were entertained by two duos of rappers--one hometown and one from Monument Mountain High School down the road--who rapped about the dangers of global warming. We heard speakers including our State Representative and State Senator. We ate well, thanks to students who offered to bring food left over from the morning's Walk for Darfur. And we took a great picture, don't you think?
By:Shawn Leary Considine
Our lovely posterboard banner was made by the Morris School Service Club and the Art Department (thank you, Kathy Pezze and Debby Kain).
And, after speakers and entertainment, our Step it Up rally had its finale in a showing of the film, An Inconvenient Truth.
By:Shawn Leary Considine
And not to be missed at our Step it Up event was the colossal "Exponential Growth of World Population" posterboard timeline created by Laurie Carroll's Lenox Memorial High School Math classes. Thanks to all who contributed to this informative display.
By:Laurie Carroll
A week before the Step it Up Day our sophomore Algebra Honors class started a new topic called Exponential and Logorithmic Functions. So I asked them to write essays in response to the quote "the biggest mistake that we humans ever made was not understanding exponential functions" - using the population growth of the planet as the example for them to study. I have to admit it was a powerful and impacting lead in to this usually mundane topic. The timeline we created was 26 feet long by 19 feet high and had it been to scale it would have been 300 feet long!
The kids wrote some very moving things about their concerns and also their optimism that WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT if we act NOW!
We created the poster itself in a miraculous 24 hours and many thanks to all who assisted in doing so - my other math classes all rose to the occassion on their last day before the break to pitch in and help.
Making the poster was a source of inspiration that anything is possible once we put our collective mind(s) together to create!
Congratulations to everyone for an amzing day and statement of purpose and intention.
