First grade

enjoyed the books "My Brother Martin," by Rev. Martin Luther

King Jr.'s sister, Christine, and a biography of the escaped slave and

American freedom fighter, Crispus Attucks, as they began their two-week

study of famous Black Americans.

Second-graders

read about Jessie Owens and enjoyed going out to the track and field area

to measure the length of Owens' record long jump.

Third-grade

students read about Dr. King's life and talked about his cause in relation

to how we should love and accept all people without regard to color, etc.

Third-grade students wrote about what they could do to promote peace in

the world in honor of Dr. King's cause. They also discussed Rosa Parks.

In fifth-grade

English, students created poems with the theme, "Different, but the

same," based on a poem by Shel Silverstein, "No Difference,"

and the following quote from General Colin Powell: "I will not let

others' opinions of me become my opinion of me." Students wrote the

poems in Microsoft Word and added clip art. They plan to publish the poem

book and donate it to the Landmark library. In addition, these students

read the story "The Silent Lobby" by Mildred Pitts Walter, which

relates to civil rights and Rosa Parks. In fifth-grade History, students

are studying the history, geography, and current events of the African

continent. They are making portfolios and atlases, and are having guest

speakers.

The sixth-grade

classes have highlighted the lives of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman,

Booker T. Washington, and George Washington Carver in their study of the

Civil War.

Landmark's

eighth grade has just studied the life of African-Americans during the

Antebellum period, slavery, and the Civil War. They learned about the

54th Mass. Regiment: the first Black Army regiment, which participated

in the Civil War. Over the course of the year they also study the first

African-Americans in North America, famous black abolitionists, blacks

during the Reconstruction period, and the Civil Rights movement and the

people involved in that.

Upper-school

English students studied "Their Eyes Were Watchin God" (by Zora

Neale Hurston--an African American woman) and began a unit devoted to

Africa. This included studying Chinua Achebe's book, "Things Fall

Apart," and the movie, "Cry, the Beloved Country" based

on the book by Alan Paton.

More information

about Landmark Christian School may be found at www.landmarkchristianschool.org

Here is a sample

of the "Different, but the Same" poems written by Landmark's

fifth grade.

Birds

Birds of a

different color, red, white, or blue

can be seen

in the droplets of the morning dew.

Not all birds

are the same,

with some big,

small, wild, or tame.

Some of their

food is easy to get:

fruit from

trees or on-the-ground bugs;

but, for their

favorite worms, they have to dig and tug.

To get into

flight they use their wings.

When resting

on a branch, they begin to sing.

They sing a

joyful song in the morning

and at night

they are joining

together at

rest

their family

together, in a nest