Western Civ Projects

May looms large on the Class IV calendar: It is now when students turn in and present their Western Civ projects, long a component of the freshman curriculum in which students research, produce, and orally defend a model or reproduction of an artifact, building, or historical scene that is linked to their study of Western Civilization.

Parameters dictate that the student must make his project with his own hands (no kits). Making use of technologies offered in the IDEA Lab is allowed, but plugging in a prefabricated design for something in a 3-D printer and presenting this as one’s project is not allowed. All work is done in school. In addition to being graded on the oral defense, each student is graded on his accuracy in representing the original, his workmanship, and the project’s degree of difficulty. Projects were on display in the front gallery during the final weeks of the school year. //