April 29, 2016 -- And the winner is Henry Pentecost! Henry, an 8th grader at Roxboro Middle School, was a finalist and overall second-place winner for the 8th grade division of the Maltz Museum’s “Stop the Hate” essay contest.
Over 2,000 students across the Greater Cleveland area participated in the contest.
Every year Roxboro Middle School 8th graders have explored how to combat hate through a teacher-created unit called “Stop the Hate.” The unit was inspired by The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage essay contest, “Stop the Hate”.
Each year Mrs. Bergen’s 8th graders are required to write an essay based on the current prompt from the essay contest as part of the culminating activity. Every student’s essay gets submitted to the “Stop the Hate” essay contest.
This year Mrs. Bergen combined her “Stop the Hate” unit ideas into an interdisciplinary unit with orchestra teacher, Nicole Clouser. What resulted was a new IB unit called “Violins of Hope” inspired by the exhibit the Maltz Museum brought to the Cleveland area.
For the past four years an 8th grader from this unit has made it as a finalist.
Essay winner Henry Pentecost and his family:
