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Committee held its annualUlack History Month Parade, The Order of
the Eastern Star - The Sisters of Granite City, Chapter 677, O.E.S. -
P.H.A. had a float. Members of Granite City Lodge 828 also were rid
ing on the float, which members of both organizations decorated. The
parade was held on Feb. 23.
The chapter was organized in June 2000. The chapter meets the first
Saturday of each month.
Photos by Felecia P. McMillan
Students at Hill Middle School performed the "Egyptian Scene" of Ruth Denise Roberts' play
"Reflections of Our History: An African American Experience."
Left to right: Seventh graders Crystal Gray, Jaymea Ziglar, Raina Douthit, Dejae /Moses and
Alex Latta visit the Business Expo at the Downtown Middle School.
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Roberts said. "I began to
explore ways to stimulate their
minds to make their history
come alive."
The finished product is a
five-act drama with these
scenes: '"'Egyptian Scene."
"Slavery Scene." "Civil Rights
Movement," "The Present,"
and "The Church Scene."
Qjieen and Willette Nash of
the Cultural Infusion Program
of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth
County School System have
been instrumental in providing
resources for the production.
University House is one of
three components of the Hill
theme. The other two are
House of Knowledge and
House of Jazz. University
House students experience
Paideia Instruction within a
college preparatory curriculum
featuring rigorous course
work, creative writing, foreign
language, accelerated math,
and Advancement Via Individ
ual Determination (AVID).
The Downtown Middle
School held a Business Expo
last week. The teachers who
assisted the sixth-graders in
this venture included Danny
Hartley. Shantay Stocks.
Susan Neumann and Carrie
Ellis. The core curriculum for
the sixth grade is based on the
theme "Mining the Communi
ty." and it has a different focus
for each quarter. For the third
quarter, the students dealt with
entrepreneurship. For the
Business Expo, students were
divided into teams and each
team created a team business
by writing a business plan and
preparing a marketing strategy,
advertising campaign, and
accounting balance sheets.
Businesses included Soul
Food Cafe, House of Stage
Arts, Candy Express, Beads
Galore, Take a Break Cafe,
Snagger Tooth, Spack Attack.
TKMO Bake 'n' Sweets, The
Sweet House. DC's Cookie
Shop. Food Brothers. Gifts 4
Life. Scrumptious Smoothies,
Candy Girls. Slushy Express.
Majic Paint. Lil Kids Candy
Co.. and Cup Pies.
Students at the Downtown
Middle School follow the N.C.
Standard Course of Study for
math, language arts, and tech
nology. They have daily
music/band, physical educa
tion. and Spanish. The eighth
graders have choral
music/band, dance/physical
education and Spanish. The
thenTE for seventh grade is "At
Home and Abroad," and for
the eighth-graders, the theme
is "The World of Work in
North Carolina." o
New countywide magnet
programs will be available for
the 2002-2003 school year at
Ashley and J.D. Diggs elemen
tary schools, and Hill and
Paisley middle schools. J.D.
Diggs and Hill will offer the
most extensive arts programs
in the school system, including
violin and dance lessons for
students. Ashley and Paisley
will develop the school sys
tem's first International Bac
calaureate (IB) program. This
program is a course of study
based on international stan
dards. and it has been used in
more than 700 schools and in
90 countries.
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