Ms. Christine Hitchcock, Lead Social Studies Teacher

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Since 1994, teaching high school students about the history of the world to help them see how the past connects to our present and our future. Wife, mom, learner, reader, tweeter.

Entries by Ms. Christine Hitchcock, Lead Social Studies Teacher

Recent reads: Between Shades of Gray

Posted October 26, 2019 by Ms. Christine Hitchcock, Lead Social Studies Teacher

If you like historical fiction and want to learn more about some of the less widely known events in World War II, you might like Ruta Sepetys’ Between Shades of Gray. It is 1941. Lina is 15 and lives a pretty comfortable life in Lithuania, though there are some tensions as the Soviet Union has… Read more »

Recent reads: The Screaming Staircase

Posted September 12, 2019 by Ms. Christine Hitchcock, Lead Social Studies Teacher

Do you like ghost stories and British humor? Then you might really enjoy the Lockwood & Co. series by Jonathan Stroud. My daughter read these books this summer and begged me to read the first title, The Screaming Staircase. I read it and liked it but . . . I stayed up late to finish… Read more »