Welcome to Lion’s Share: Scheck Hillel Community School’s Grade 6-12 bulletin covering news about curriculum, college counseling and our community. Connect with the names, faces and initiatives that make Scheck Hillel a college preparatory school that develops global citizens with enduring Jewish identity and values. For more school information, please visit eHillel.org.
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January 2016 Tevet-Shevat 5776 Curriculum Study of Literature College Make Summer Count Community Hillel Alumna & Parent Curriculum Welcome to Lion’s Share: Scheck Hillel Community School’s Grade 6-12 bulletin covering news about curriculum, college counseling and our community. Connect with the names, faces and initiatives that make Scheck Hillel a college preparatory school that develops global citizens with enduring Jewish identity and values. For more school information, please visit eHillel.org. Juda and Maria Diener Lower School | Samuel and Henrietta Scheck Middle School | Ben Lipson Upper School Depth and Diversity Mark Literature Curriculum LION’S SHARE What Students Are Reading: Sample Titles Grade 6 The Giver The City of Ember Things Not Seen Walk Two Moons Grade 7 Chernowitz! The Outsiders Star Girl Five People You Meet in Heaven Tuesdays With Morrie Grade 8 Phoenix Rising The House on Mango Street Animal Farm The Chosen Maus/Maus II Grade 9 Night Romeo and Juliet Lord of the Flies A Separate Peace Grade 10 Call of the Wild Fahrenheit 451 The Scarlet Letter The Great Gatsby Grade 11 1984 Beowulf Othello AP Literature A Streetcar Named Desire The Invisible Man Hamlet Judaic and Israel Studies Bamidbar Book of Ruth Talmud: Tractate Megilah The Case for Israel The study of literature plays a significant role within Scheck Hillel Community School’s overall Program of Studies. By the time students graduate, they will have tackled literary works using multiple skill sets, from basic decoding and vocabulary building to higher-order thinking, which involves complex analysis, interpretation and criticism. To cultivate these abilities, Grade 6-12 teachers expose students to a range of literary genres, including poetry, short stories, novels, plays and biographies, to name a few. Exemplars of each are chosen to target key learning goals and foster versatile reading tastes. Some of the titles that make up class reading lists may vary from year to year, while others endure as permanent selections thanks to their status as major literary works. (See side bar.) Literature study takes place in both General and Judaic Studies. Grade 6-12 Curriculum & Instruction Director Craig Carpentieri points out how faculty develop a special connection with the works they teach. This, in turn, drives rich classroom conversations. Critical analysis ramps up further in AP Literature classes; to prepare students for this challenge, English teacher Gerry Cirulnick assigns How to Read Literature Like a Professor as a summer reading selection. In the Beit Midrash track, students read from primary and secondary sources in history, Tanach and Rabbinic literature. As Rabbi Avi Greene, Upper School Judaic Studies Department Chair, points out, “...the goal is to stimulate critical thought and help students find personal relevance in all the literature they encounter.” As a tool for learning, transmitting culture and nurturing personal and spiritual growth, literature will continue to play a prominent role in Scheck Hillel’s classrooms.
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January 2016Tevet-Shevat 5776
CurriculumStudy of Literature
CollegeMake Summer Count
CommunityHillel Alumna & Parent
CurriculumWelcome to Lion’s Share: Scheck Hillel Community School’s Grade 6-12 bulletin covering news about curriculum, college counseling and our community. Connect with the names, faces and initiatives that make Scheck Hillel a college preparatory school that develops global citizens with enduring Jewish identity and values. For more school information, please visit eHillel.org.
Juda and Maria Diener Lower School | Samuel and Henrietta Scheck Middle School | Ben Lipson Upper School
Depth and Diversity Mark Literature Curriculum
LION’S SHAREWhat Students Are Reading:
Sample Titles
Grade 6The Giver The City of EmberThings Not SeenWalk Two Moons
Grade 7Chernowitz!The OutsidersStar Girl Five People You Meet in Heaven Tuesdays With Morrie
Grade 8Phoenix Rising The House on Mango StreetAnimal Farm The Chosen Maus/Maus II
Grade 9Night Romeo and Juliet Lord of the FliesA Separate Peace
Grade 10Call of the WildFahrenheit 451The Scarlet Letter The Great Gatsby
Grade 111984BeowulfOthello
AP LiteratureA Streetcar Named DesireThe Invisible ManHamlet
Judaic and Israel StudiesBamidbarBook of RuthTalmud: Tractate MegilahThe Case for Israel
The study of literature plays a significant role within Scheck Hillel Community School’s overall Program of Studies. By the time students graduate, they will have tackled literary works using multiple skill sets, from basic decoding and vocabulary building to higher-order thinking, which involves complex analysis, interpretation and criticism.
To cultivate these abilities, Grade 6-12 teachers expose students to a range of literary genres, including poetry, short stories, novels, plays and biographies, to name a few. Exemplars of each are chosen to target key learning goals and foster versatile reading tastes. Some of the titles that make up class reading lists may vary from year to year, while others endure as permanent selections thanks to their status as major literary works. (See side bar.)
Literature study takes place in both General and Judaic Studies. Grade 6-12 Curriculum & Instruction Director
Craig Carpentieri points out how faculty develop a special connection with the works they teach. This, in turn, drives rich classroom conversations. Critical analysis ramps up further in AP Literature classes; to prepare students for this challenge, English teacher Gerry Cirulnick assigns How to Read Literature Like a Professor as a summer reading selection.
In the Beit Midrash track, students read from primary and secondary sources in history, Tanach and Rabbinic literature. As Rabbi Avi Greene, Upper School Judaic Studies Department Chair, points out, “...the goal is to stimulate critical thought and help students find personal relevance in all the literature they encounter.”
As a tool for learning, transmitting culture and nurturing personal and spiritual growth, literature will continue to play a prominent role in Scheck Hillel’s classrooms.
CommunityQ&A With Jassi (Lekach) Antebi (‘00)
Making the Most of Summer Break College
Share with us! Please email your comments, questions and ideas for future editions of Lion’s Share to [email protected].
The summer months are the ideal time period for students to explore interests, improve skills, take a college-level class or step out of their comfort zones to explore possible careers.
Vanessa Donaher, Director, and Dennis Eller, Associate Director of the Office of College Counseling, strongly believe that students who engage in meaningful summer activities continue to grow as people. Those activities can take many forms: a job, volunteer work, travel with a service component or summer camp.
Planning early is recommended. Now is the time to gather information, send inquiries and check application deadlines, as some internships, jobs and programs do fill up quickly.
Keep in mind that some of the best summer experiences can be found around the corner from where students live; colleges value a genuine commitment to learning and growing regardless of where opportunities are located.
For guidance on summer options, feel free to contact Mrs. Donaher or Mr. Eller at [email protected],[email protected], or in the Office of College Counseling.
Michal Paniry (Grade 12) spent a month at Brandeis University, where she took a World Religions course. She gained a new perspective on religious differences through her interactions with students of many backgrounds.
American UniversityBabson CollegeClark UniversityFlorida Atlantic University Florida Gulf Coast UniversityFlorida International UniversityFlorida State University Full Sail UniversityHofstra University Indiana UniversityLaboratory Institute of MerchandisingLong Island University Lynn University
Miami International University of Art & DesignMichigan State UniversityNew York UniversityNortheastern UniversityParsons School of Design Savannah College of Art & DesignStern CollegeSuffolk UniversitySUNY BinghamtonSyracuse UniversityTulane UniversityUniversity of Colorado at Boulder
University of Alabama University of ArizonaUniversity of Central FloridaUniversity of DenverUniversity of HartfordUniversity of Miami University of MassachusettsUniversity of Michigan University of North FloridaUniversity of Pennsylvania University of Texas West Virginia University Yeshiva UniversityYeshivat Ashreinu
Class of 2016 College Acceptances As of 1/15/16
Name of your business: J Group Events
Type of business and length of time in business:Event design & planning - 11 years with a 5-year maternity pause
One key quality someone in your field should possess:Resilience
One major mistake and what you learned: Accepting to work with a client that I knew would be extremely difficult. It was not worth our time and sanity, and I learned to trust my gut.
One major success and what you learned:The first event I did on my own was for a celebrity in another country. I worked day and night with my brother and the team we put together, and we ended up producing a highly successful event and product launch. Even though I had been nervous about accepting this huge responsibility, I learned not to place limitations on myself. I’ve been pushing boundaries and creating new things ever since.
As a Scheck Hillel alumna and parent, your perspective on what has changed through the years and what has remained the same:
Mr. C is still around, Pam Burd is in the office, my former classmates are still walking the halls… it’s the same Hillel! The biggest change is that we now have the amazing Athletic Complex that I wish we had had when I was a student.
Essential skills/tools you received from attending Scheck Hillel:Confidence and kindness
Uri Epelbaum (Grade 12) describes his participation in the Ramah Israel Seminar last summer as an intense blend of cross-cultural, physical, intellectual and spiritually fulfilling experiences.
