It's worked so well that they have just gotten some national writing awards. I have parts of it memorized. That's Jill Hubley and Megan Shevenock, two of the award-winning writers. Students in the writing program at the senior high school level are expected to have mastered the mechanics of writing, teacher Naomi Duprat says. And they tend to have good vocabularies.
Students read their work out loud to the class or exchange manuscripts for comments and editing.
Future Penn Stater gets national art award Cumberland Valley High School senior Philip Zimmerman plans a career in art. Zimmerman won a place in the art program for a governor's school course last summer and a national Silver Key Scholastic award for a painting this year. He plans to attend Penn State to study visual arts. Steve Koons, who teaches Zimmerman in independent study in art this year, characterizes the student as a versatile and talented artist who has good fundamental skills in drawing and painting and a broad grounding in art history. Zimmerman can't remember not being interested in art.