mihs summer school

M.I.H.S. Summer School 2008 July 24, 2008
Art and Collaboration
On July 21-22, 2008, Manhattan International High School hosted the Collaborative Art Initiative (CAI). More than 20 teachers from the Academic Program, University of the Middle East Project, together with the American coordinators, and Professor Mark Cooper (sculptor and artist), animated this two-day initiative, and engaged about 35 MIHS students who were in the process of attending different summer school classes.
This became an extremely enriching temporary interruption of the progress of their class work. To quote one of the students, during these two amazing days, “we all became part of the planet earth.” A group of students attending the enrichment literacy summer course reveal their feelings in their heart-felt articles written in class as a follow up activity. They worked hard to be able to use English words that could say how they really felt. Editing their drafts with the help of teachers and peers was a necessary bridge to express themselves in English. Their still in-progress language skills allow the true feelings of enjoyment and appreciation to be perceived by the reader. (Cinzia Bontempo)