Dorothy Gale Trial Begins Today

Today the Objection Your Honor Mock Trial Workshop will be holding their final trial. The trial will see Dorothy Gale vs. The State of Oz, as she is being tried for Murder in the 1st and 2nd degree, breaking and entering, and theft. I went up to their classroom and was able to LiveStream the trial. If you have not seen it yet, below is the recording of the first part of the trial.

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Chess Professionals

The serious side of LA Winterim really comes out in our chess course. It's a very serious Winterim and they take pride in their wins and play fast. Their moves are quick and they think about each move in a split second. They are all top notch players, who know and love the game of chess! Watch this video.

Iron Forging

The Iron Forging group has been working hard this week and has a lot of work to show for it. When we went to visit they had made metal fish, forks, and various other designs.

Here's a video I took while visiting the group

Pop Artists in the Making

The Hit Single Machine Winterim is well into the songwriting process, and has already come a long way after four days of work. As most of you probably know, this particular Winterim has the students writing a pop song, creating a music video for the song, and selling it on iTunes. The profits will be put towards a scholarship for a student applying to LA with strong musical potential.

At this point, the students have finished writing their song, and the group has an idea for the general concept for the music video. Today, they were having a discussion session, throwing out ideas for the music video and deciding which lyrics work for the song and which ones are more cliche or boring. From what I gathered, the main concept is about daydreaming during class. There's one lyric about purple seas, and there was some discussion about drool for the music video. Let's see how it turns out; so far, it sounds like a phenomenal and hilarious concept!

"Can we just do this over?" Interview with Mrs. Poulin

We plan interview some LA administrators about the real Winterim.

Today, we met with Mrs. Poulin, Director of Academic Support.

What is your favorite thing about Winterim?

What do you mostly do over Winterim?

What is your favorite memory about Winterim?

Are there any problems that have ever happened that you can remember?

Stay tuned: We will "do this over" with another administrator later this week!

Watch out next episode!!!