January has come quickly, and it is time to begin a new year! Happy New Year to the entire ASD community. I hope it is filled with blessings, peace, health, and love.

Upon their return from Christmas break, grades 6 through 8 are going to be starting some exciting new material. Grade 6 is finishing their unit on modern technology, assessing both its strengths and weaknesses. Grade 7 will begin reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, a classic novel about the social issues that create tensions for many teens. Grade 8 will finish their unit on the Holocaust by completing the play The Diary of Anne Frank, which illuminates the many horrors of the Holocaust as people tried to survive.