CHAPTER 7 : SCHOOL

This selection deals with how school matters in our penpals' life.

We are studying the American middle and high school of our penpals.

Our penpals school name is Spirit Lake High School.

Their school mascot is an Indian head.

 

This is the logo of  Spirit Lake Highschool: the head of an Indian wearing red feathers.

Their school is very big and has many programs : Schools programs help kids to get more credit for college. Among the programs, they have sports such has football, soccer, track, etc.

They also have musical programs like bands, chorus, show choir... , Art programs like painting, pottery, drawing and independant art.

In middle school, kids are about 11 to 14 years old . In high school they are about 13 toi 18 yaers old.

Here, we can see Sami's center 

Their holidays are quite similar to ours :

They have the whole three months of summer(June, July and August) off for summer break. They get Thanksgiving in November, Christmas break in December, and Easter break in Spring.

Their mandatory classes for freshman year is Health, Algebra, physical education 'class), 2 extra credit classes, and Core Academy.

Core Academy is a two hour class; three teachers are in charge of this subject.

One deals with science, another one with writing, and the last one teaches social studies.

The three teachers take turns teaching their part of lesson.

Spirit Lake football ground