Op Docs Project

Grades: 11

Teachers: Anne Tommaso and Mandy Lewis
Subject: AP Language and Composition
Project Name: Op Docs
Resources: Op Docs Project

To be creative, expressive, and make a short documentary film about a topic about which you are passionate; To explore rhetorical modes and strategies through film, artistic decisions, and voice; To increase our media literacy.

Click here to see the movie

Vocab Minute Songs

Grade: 10
Teachers: Maritia O'Neil
Subject: English
Project Name: Vocabulary Minute Songs
Resources: Project Website

This project is modeled on the Princeton Review's Vocabulary Minute. Using a list of SAT vocabulary words, students created their own songs to help them remember what they have to learn. The results are quite creative!

Class 1 and Class 2

Grade: 11
Teachers: Anne Tommaso and Mandy Lewis
Subject: English
Project Name: Community Book Discussion
Resources: Project Website

Students choose a book to read based on a theme. Members of the community are invited to participate by reading one of the books on the list and joining a group for a student generated discussion.

Grades: 9-12
Teacher: English Department
Subject: English
Project Name: Poetry Out Loud
Resources: Project Website

Poetry Out Loud is a National Recitation Contest. It was created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. This is the second year that Yarmouth has participated.

The Power of 1

Grade: 9

Teacher: Grade 9 Team

Subject: Social Studies, Science, Math, English

Project Name: Power of One Project

Resources: Power of One Website

Hunger and food insecurity impacts people in our own communities and around the world.  Students at Yarmouth High School will learn about the issues of hunger, and develop projects that can make a difference.  Projects are open-ended.  There is no one pathway for making a difference.  Through the work, students will:

• Collaborate with peers and adults
• Plan and implement a long-term project
• Engage in discourse around social change
• Model Yarmouth Core Values including caring and citizenship:  
• Caring - Caring people show concern for the well-being of themselves, others and the environment.
• Citizenship - Responsible citizens contribute to the community locally and globally in active, positive, and creative ways and encourage the participation of others through cooperation and contribution.

Readers' Theater Performance Videos

Grade: 3

Teacher: Kate Parkin

Subject: Language Arts

Project Name: Reader's Theater

Resources: Class Blog Post