November 2025

Memoir Tour with College Composition and Literary Analysis

Students in Mrs. Valerie Wright’s College Composition and Literary Analysis course are currently learning about memoir, and in addition to reading one, students are writing their own mini memoirs. In the multimedia project, they'll combine literary techniques like dialogue, imagery, and characterization with music and personal images and videos to recount and explore specific experiences from their lives that demonstrate a particular theme that they see across the story of their lives so far."Since Archmere plays such an important role in their formation, I asked the class to give me a Memoir Tour, where they chose a special place on campus that highlighted something significant for them" Mrs. Wright said. "Whether the location is connected to a singular moment or it symbolizes their four years at Archmere, my goal was for my students to share an emotionally relevant spot, and to reflect on what specific emotions it conjures in them.

 

"I saw this as a way to further develop their skills of writing with vivid sensory imagery and to articulate in written expression why they feel its connection to what will literally be a chapter of their lives for this class. I'm grateful as a teacher to be able to do things like this with my students, and grateful that they have such a special, unique campus on which to experience these years."

AP Spanish and Art Classes Enjoy Cross-Curricular Project

This month Mrs. Denise Perez's AP Spanish class visited the Introduction to Drawing class during their on site project of drawing the Patio. This served as a cross-curricular experience for the AP Spanish students and Ms. Briggs' and Mrs. Lykos' art classes to understand how creativity takes shape in drawing and ceramics. They observed student work, interviewed students, and reported their findings.