Events
Shakespeare Monologue Competition 2020
Students performed monologues from Hamlet, Twelfth Night, The Tempest and A Winter’s Tale among others, vying for an opportunity to advance to the regional division of a national competition sponsored by The English Speaking Union. CHS students Stella B, Jacob G, and Sam P received Honorable Mentions, and freshman Andre F won the competition, performing […]
CHS Winter 2019 Theater Production: “Walk Two Moons”
The Drama Department of Community High School proudly presents Tom Avertis’ stage adaptation of Newberry Award-winning novel, Walk Two Moons, November 15 and 16. The curtain rises each evening at 7:30 pm at the June M. McBroom Theatre. The price of admission is $5 Set in modern day, 13-year-old Salamanca (Sal) Hill sets out to […]
Fall 2019 Lycée Day
For this fall Lycée Day students are choosing among 17 different locally sourced classes, workshops, lectures, discussions, and tours. Would you choose the chainmail making class, the Taubman museum tour of the Julie Speed exhibition, the discussion of Amish Romance Novels, or the hands-on survival skills session to learn how to withstand the Zombie Apocalypse? […]
CHS Band Performs at CurlyFest 2019
Enjoy this clip of our school Performance Band playing at Curlyfest 2019!
News
Stealing Art!
The Art Crimes and Van Gogh classes played an art stealing board game where they pretended they were bidding on art pieces and attempting to build the most valuable art exhibit collection to win the game.
A Pi-ku For You
For Pi Day our Spanish classes wrote Pi-ku poems, where each line in the poem had a specific number of syllables representing the numbers of pi as they went down the page.
Pi Variety!
As an infinite number, ‘Pi’ is known to include the digits of 0 to 9 in all possible combinations. But this afternoon, we were interested in figuring out how many pieces of different pies we could fit onto our plates.
Molecular Gastronomy
The Chemistry students served up spherical molecular cocktails for everyone during our pi day celebration.
Pi-ñata
We’re thankful for the students in our Creepy Puppets class for making the pi-ñata for our Pi Day festivities.
Sustainable Energy Projects
The Environmental Science students shared their projects with us. They covered a variety of methods, and demonstrated uses of regenerative agriculture, solar power, turbine power, biofuels and more.
Miracle Berries
Students experienced “miracle berries” turning sour tastes into sweet tasting substances, including vinegar and lemon slices, a table set up by our chemistry students.
Reebops
For Pi Day, students modeled the processes of meiosis, fertilization, development, and birth by building little marshmallow critters called Reebops!
Electron or No Electron?
Our Chemistry students determined the conductivity of a wide variety of substances. They tested everything from copper strips, to shampoo, lump sulfur to lemon juice, and also dissolved compounds as necessary to see if their aqueous solutions would conduct if their solid forms didn’t phase the probe.
Protect the Yeast!
Our Biology lab students created posters showing what they discovered about the experiments they designed themselves trying to protect yeast from Ultraviolet Radiation.
BINGO!
The AP Calculus students are in a race against time. They need to solve math problems to fill in their grid to see who makes it to a bingo first!
“Sleep Cinematic: A Golem’s Quartet” by Les Epstein
Sleep Cinematic: A Golem’s Quartet is a book-length poem that was published by Gnashing Teeth in 2022. It’s follow up, Lorenzo by the Ghost Light is also now available. A tale of a Golem in pursuit of community and a greater purpose for a man of clay who has trouble dating and simply relaxing. “Sleep Cinematic” is […]