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HERA COMMUNITY SCHOOL
A non-profit community development program created to involve & encourage
at-risk youth to make positive changes through community involvement, education and projects.
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Our goal is to provide community art & development projects and create learning opportunity for students in Clackamas County. Hands on learning applied to real life situations boost students self-esteem and helps connect them to their community. By connecting local & global students on shared project and dialogue, barriers are broken down, setting the stage for collaborations and friendships. Students have a better understanding of themselves, their community, the world and the importance of becoming a positive contributor to society.
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Know-Understand-Do
Acquisition of knowledge, extended thinking, authentic, meaningful use, and mastery.
Project-based unit is a student project that connects student discussion, reading, research and skills acquisition with a project.
Differentiating the unit- Plan for the accommodations needed in order to meet the varied interest, learning styles, and abilities of all students.
Student Assessment- Short answer tests or quizzes, student logs, journals as informal writing, formal writing assignments, stations, activities and completed projects.
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Hera is skilled at planning and implementing an integrated activity-based service-learning curriculum
for students in 7-12 grade. We connect academic standards with project based units, local field trips and international service trips.
STAFF
Anna Meyrick- Director-
Art - Social Studies Instructor
Carol Hohman- Administrative Assistant
Carol Whitton- Language Arts Instructor
Roger Collier- Robotic Instructor- STEM- Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
For more information about the program call
503.650.6572
Mailing address:
P.O Box 2548
Oregon City, Or 97045
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Community Connection Project Fall 2007
Anna was asked by Art Action Alliance to do a mosaic demostration at Rowe Middle School for the Clackamas County Big Read Program. The book to be read was Fahrenheit 451. Anna partnered with the English teacher, Carol Whitten. The students read the book and a Social Studies unit was designed in addition to the English component.
To complete the unit, students were asked to pick a topic of interest to research, create a mosaic and write a report. Carol was able to get the most reluctant writers to produce well thought out research papers. The students were passionate about their topics and proud of their mosiacs, making the writing process engaging and natural.
Anna used this opportunity to tie video production to the unit. Selected students took classes at Willamette Falls Television to learn how to operate a video camera, use the editing sofware and produce a completed media production.
Anna took a film crew to Rowe Middle School during their school's open house celebrating Ray Bradbury's book, Fahrenheit 451. Anna and her students prepped a mosaic sign for the participants at the open house helped complete. The mosaic sign stated, "ROWE READS" done in contrasting colors of green and orange. Orange representing fire and green to remind us of nature. It was a great community event and we were proud to be a part of it.
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The Big Read drawing to a close
Groups across the county will discuss "Fahrenheit 451" this week
By Ellen Spitaleri
The Clackamas Review, Feb 26, 2008, Updated Feb 26, 2008
Clackamas Community College instructor and set designer Chris Whitten built a giant replica of the book ‘Fahrenheit 451’ to be burnt as part of the ongoing Big Read event.
Chris Whitten / Clackamas Review
Students in Anna Meyrick’s art classes and Carol Whitten’s English classes have been discussing free speech issues since September, so The Big Read “tied in so nicely with our subject matter,” Meyrick said.
The Crossroads School students are reading “Fahrenheit 451,” discussing it and making mosaics on some aspect of individual and intellectual freedom, she added. The Big Read is a month-long program in Clackamas County with events and readings centered around the book.
Whitten, who just started teaching at the Oregon City school in September, said she likes the flexibility of an alternative school curriculum, so that she can ask students to tell her what they think is important.
“We’re teaching students to think for themselves, and that is what ‘Fahrenheit 451’ is all about. Reading is in decline and information is so condensed — I want students to take a look at the world around them and ask themselves if we are getting the whole picture,” she said.
Student opinions on book
Justin Smith, 15, said his favorite part of the book is the realism.
“Stuff in the book has happened, or is happening. We have TV’s the size of walls and people aren’t reading anymore,” he noted.
“A lot of people [today] depend on technology in their everyday life instead of going out and exploring the real world,” said Brittney Kassahn, 17, pointing out the similarities in the book to today’s world.
“It’s a good book to compare how society is today — it is strange how he [Ray Bradbury] predicted things,” added Kayla Simmons, 15.
Both Amanda Heil, 17, and Allison Hill, 13, pointed out how the book portrays news as focusing on entertainment value, and that same focus exists today.
Ashley Osburn, 17 agreed, and added, “All this fake stuff on the news is not important — we should focus on what’s going on around us. Just watching TV is not a life — we should make our own opinions, not just listen to other people’s opinions.”
Meyrick said that the student mosaics will be on display at the Carnegie Center on Saturday, March 1, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., during the BBQ and silent auction fundraiser for the Crossroads School’s trip to San Jose del Cabo. The cost is $25, and the money will enable the students to travel to Mexico, where they will “build a shade structure for handicapped children, pour a concrete floor for a handicapped woman and work with handicapped children doing art projects.”
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