Highlands Writing

"Cristina and the Lions" by Nina [1st grade]

May 19th, 2009

Cristina lives in a house. But not any old house…in a wooden house! Cristina loved living there. So Cristina was thinking outside with her mom. Then Cristina thought about something. She remembered and she told her mother…”Why don’t we have one more cat?”
“Cristina, don’t you think we have too many? […]

"Middle School Research Writing: Challenging the Status Quo" by [5th-7th grade]

April 4th, 2009

Some scientists, such as John Michell and Pierre Laplace, believed in the existence of “invisible stars” in the 1790s. Michell and Laplace calculated how big something had to be in order to have an escape velocity faster then the speed of light. In 1967, John Wheeler used the words black hole for that […]