March 31, 2014
What does the TFI Partnership Grant Project provide? Opportunity! An opportunity for Yevgenia Arutyunyan, History teacher at Charlotte Country Day School, and Rochelle Stanley, English teacher at Garinger High School, to bring together students from a private school and a school from an urban environment in order to create an amazing learning experience for their Communities@War project. In the fall of 2013, students read, analyzed, and evaluated an array of texts. The students met for the first time at Garinger to discuss their ideas about the various communities at war via different lenses: social, economic, emotional, and spiritual. The students were grouped by the lens and under the assistance of art teachers, Natalie Knight (CCDS) and Josh Cornwell (GHS), they have been collaborating in order to interpret texts and to compose a mixed media mural reflecting the project’s theme. The project has become a transforming experience for the students, as well as the teachers, as they learn about one another with visits to each campus, different communities and their perspectives about our changing world. The Communities@War project is more than art, more than history…it is the makings of a community masterpiece! See Ms. Stanley and Ms. Arutyunyan’s students in action in this Flipagram: http://flipagram.com/f/hBGzpjZYH3
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