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The Freshman Interdisciplinary Team offers students a cohesive, integrated curriculum in which they are provided with opportunities to demonstrate what they learn within real-life contexts, such as the Water Project.

As part of their study of American Literature, 11th graders read texts by transcendentalist writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. In addition to writing analytical pieces in response to essays and poems, students are invited to compose nature journals in the spirit of Thoreau’s “Walden” and to create poems in the style of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” or “I Hear America Singing.” Click on the link above to read exemplary poems from this unit, each celebrating an aspect of an RHS student’s life.

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Students in Ms. Tetzlaff’s Interior Design and Architecture class spent a week creating their “dream home” on the Chief Architect program in the STC Architect and Engineering computer room.

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Students experience physics first hand. Click on picture to see video.

Video courtesy of Melissa Gfeller, an honors physics veteran and 12th grade independent study physics student at RHS.

See the video in which students offer their perspective on the fall, 2010 Freshmen PILOT program.

Family and Consumer Sciences Real Meals I classes took a field trip to the Rutland Natural Food Co-op to learn about the cooperative, organic foods, fresh versus processed foods and the benefits of buying local.

The RHS Spanish National Honor Society began their second annual holiday caroling event this weekend at local Nursing homes here in Rutland city. RHS Students preformed seven holiday songs in Spanish accompanied by a guitar for the residence of the nursing home. At the completion of the concert the RHS students visited with the residence and enjoyed punch and cookies. Much fun was had by all!

Parlez-vous français? Rutland High School French students kick off National French Week by wearing T-shirts that proclaim, “PAS EN ANGLAIS”!