Welcome to Your Middle Session Information Page!
This page will serve as a place for you to obtain important information, announcements and updates about Middle Session. Please check it regularly throughout our 7 day cycle so that you will be prepared and ready for new activities, field trips, etc. Please email your individual advisers if you have any questions throughout Middle session.
Important Announcements:
- Remember to complete the advocacy topics survey by Friday, March 11th.
- Bring in old t-shirts before Monday, March 7th; otherwise you may not be able to participate in the sewing activity.
- Bring bagged lunches and snacks on the following days: Wednesday, March 9th, Thursday, March 10th, Friday, March 11th, Monday, March 14th
- You also have an opportunity to buy lunch Monday, March 14th.
- Dress appropriately for field trips; they are scheduled "rain or shine."
- Bring yoga clothes on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
- Bring in a canned good to donate to Philabundance on Friday, March 11th.
- Bring in shoe boxes, crates or cartons to hold your seedling plants.
What is Middle Session in 6th Grade?
Throughout our 7 days together we will explore the theme of sustaining ourselves, our communities and our world. To learn more about this theme we will:
- Go on a variety of field trips to Elfreth's Alley, Arden Theatre, The Rittenhouse Paper Mill, WXPN's outdoor concert and more!
- Listen and discuss the importance of sustaining the environment with outside speakers
- Read an ecological mystery novel
- Write a play with a published playwright
- Explore the importance of oral history through song and music
- Re-purpose old fabrics with a fiber artist from The Handwork Studio
- Take a yoga class and contemplate the importance of physical and mental well-being
Who Really Killed Cock Robin?
"Citizens of Saddleboro are proud to say that theirs is the
cleanest town around. So they can't ignore the mysterious death of their
mascot, Cock Robin. Some people would like to blame the citizens
themselves, but one boy-Tony Isidoro -- suspects there's more to the
story.
Tony threads his way through a maze of clues: Among other things, the town park is overrun with trillions of ants; nights are quiet because there are no frogs singing; the nearby river contains a dangerous amount of an unknown chemical; and the town dump is emitting strange fumes. What does it all add UP to? It's an eco mystery all right, and it's up to Tony to figure out who really killed Cock Robin."
Taken from: http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/books/Who-Really-Killed-Cock-Robin-Jean-Craighead-George/?isbn13=9780064404051&tctid=100
Tony threads his way through a maze of clues: Among other things, the town park is overrun with trillions of ants; nights are quiet because there are no frogs singing; the nearby river contains a dangerous amount of an unknown chemical; and the town dump is emitting strange fumes. What does it all add UP to? It's an eco mystery all right, and it's up to Tony to figure out who really killed Cock Robin."
Taken from: http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/books/Who-Really-Killed-Cock-Robin-Jean-Craighead-George/?isbn13=9780064404051&tctid=100
Your Detective Handbook!
As you read you will record your thoughts about who or what killed Cock Robin in your detective "handbook." You will read the novel like a book club read, and as a group, you will determine how much to read each night. Each day you will read with your reading group and reflect on the author's overall message and evaluate whether or not it is still an important message in our world today. In your reading groups, you will be assigned roles and responsibilities to solve the mystery.