The Perfect Six Words
5/22/2010
In Betty Jipson’s Memoirs class, students are writing six word memoirs to describe themselves.
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 | Writer Kevin Roose Teaches Agreeable Disagreement
4/15/2010
Students did not know what to expect when Kevin Roose visited Derryfield on Wednesday. His visit, arranged by Director of College Counseling Brennan Barnard, had been advertised to the community, but the subtext of the author's visit was unclear. Would the author, who wrote a book about his transfer from Brown to Liberty University during his sophomore year, target religious fundamentalists? Or would he proselytize?
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 | Derryfield's Second Annual Poetry Out Loud Competition
2/1/2010
Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, the annual Poetry Out Loud competition returned for the second year to the stage of the performing arts auditorium. The program "encourages the nation's youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and performance" with the goal of helping students "master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their literary heritage."
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 | "Tuberculosis" Wins the Day
1/27/2010
Have you ever watched the Scripps National Spelling Bee on ESPN? If so, perhaps you wondered (as I did before last Wednesday) why an all-sports channel would cover the event. What changed for me was watching the epic battle waged by 23 of our stellar spellers for the opportunity to represent Derryfield at the next level of competition.
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 | Seventh Grade Music Class Gets a Taste of India
1/14/2010
Laurel Devino's seventh grade music class had first-hand experience with percussion instruments from halfway around the world on January 5. Suresh Mathur, grandfather of class member Katelyn, visited Derryfield to demonstrate the use of Tabla, percussion instruments used in Hindustani music, a classical style from Northern India.
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 | Wash and Wash Again!
11/1/2009
With rising concerns over the H1N1, Michele Leclerc decided to test her sixth grade health class on their hand-washing skills.
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 | Physics Students Race Head to Head
10/16/2009
The goal of a project in kinematics (study of motion) for the physics classes this fall was to create a car powered by an old-fashioned mousetrap that would travel at least 5m (about 15.9 ft).
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