Category: Chronicle Classroom

“Et toi? Comment ça va?” Caroline says.   And you? How are you?   This is how French class starts nearly every day at U-32.   “Je suis fatigue. Je suis fatigue. Moi aussi.”   We can all say how…

An 1850’s Debate Over Pants Born in Townshend, Vermont, in 1810, Clarina Howard Nichols established herself as a political activist while petitioning for married women’s property right after divorcing her first husband.  In 1843, she married George W. Nichols, editor…

One test. Four parts. Four hours. Three breaks. Over one hundred students. On October 19th all the juniors and a few of the sophomores were sent to rooms throughout the school to take the PSATs for four straight hours. There…

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1 in every 6 women in America have experienced rape or sexual violence. This is a violation of human rights falling under Article 5 in the Universal Declaration stating “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman…

What happens to clay when it goes into the kiln, to harden and then to be glazed? “It comes from the Earth. I think we get our clay from India,” said senior Alex Warner, who explained clay as being “sand-mud.”…

  This reading, and the discussion questions below, could be used in any social studies classroom.   In Autumn, 1975, alongside articles titled “Homage to Foliage,” “Down Country Roads,” and “A New Fashioned Barn Raising,” Vermont Life Magazine published a…