Han Yue Chen Dana Hall School

RM 602, No.10, Lane 511, Weining 45 Dana Road

Road Wellesley, MA 02482-9010
Changning District 781-235-3010
Shanghai 200336
China
Grade Level: 9th Grade
Advisor: Ms. Danielle Rettinger

School Year: 2021 - 2022

June 15, 2022

Academics
Fall Trimester I
Tri I

Literature and Composition I Lindstrom A

Precalculus with Applications Enlow A

Western Civilization Cook A

Physics 9 McShane A

French I Potter A

Creating Character Morris A

Riding-PE Summers HP

Winter Trimester II
Tri II

Literature and Composition I Lindstrom A

Precalculus with Applications Enlow A

Western Civilization Cook A

Physics 9 McShane A

French I Potter A

Creating Character Morris A

Music Les. Non-Credit Faculty P

Dance I PE Bradley P

Spring Trimester III

Tri III Final Final
Exam Grade

Forum 9 Saunders

Skills Workshop 9 Johnson

Literature and Composition I Lindstrom A A A

Report Card Legend

I = Incomplete (d) = Dropped Course (c) = Changed Section (w) = Withdrawn
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Han Yue Chen Dana Hall School
RM 602, No.10, Lane 511, Weining 45 Dana Road
Road Wellesley, MA 02482-9010
Changning District 781-235-3010
Shanghai 200336
China
Grade Level: 9th Grade
Advisor: Ms. Danielle Rettinger

Tri III Final Final

Exam Grade

Precalculus with Applications Enlow A B A

Western Civilization Cook A A A

Physics 9 McShane A A A

French I Potter A A A

Creating Character Morris A A

Music Les. Non-Credit Faculty HP

Riding-PE Faculty HP

Spring Trimester III Comment

Forum 9
Deanna Saunders
At the beginning of Trimester III, the Peer Educators engaged in community building and taught lessons on subjects including mental health and study
habits. Next, Forum 9 facilitators covered social media, media literacy, and the intersection of these topics with emotional wellness and identity. The 9th
graders then learned about microaggressions, including how to identify them and how to interrupt them. During the final part of Trimester III, external
speakers from EducaHealth, an organization that specializes in providing sexual health and wellness curriculum, taught lessons on consent and legal issues,
reproductive biology, abstinence, protection methods, high risk and low risk behaviors for STIs, and gender diversity.

Skills Workshop 9
Emma Johnson
This spring in Skills 9, students dedicated time to preparing for their first end of year exams, learning about social media and the news, and to the
completing the Global Education curriculum. That curriculum focused on the role that multiple perspectives play in cultivating empathy which, in turn,
supports problem solving. Students practiced recognizing emotions in faces, discussing whether it was necessary to have experienced an event in order to
empathize with someone else who had experienced the same event. The classes were split in opinion about how far empathy could reach across traumatic
moments. All the students were sensitive to the danger of claiming to understand someone else’s experiences, knowing that this could be insulting and
certainly backfire. Nevertheless, the students saw examples of the ability to reach even across species to imagine how another feels. Did anyone say
“Yawn?” Ultimately, we looked at some remarkable examples of problem solving from dying sutures with beet juice to detect infection to establishing an
app to recreate address systems so that everyone can have one. We look forward to the problems you will solve!

As sophomores, you will have a chance to let the skills you learned this year continue to grow. You will also fulfill your community service graduation
requirement as part and learn about food insecurity in Forum as part of the Global Education program—you are encouraged to email Mrs. Panahi, the new
Coordinator of Global Education, if you have questions. Best wishes in your explorations and plan on some travel! Thank you for a wonderful year in Skills.

Literature and Composition I

Fred Lindstrom
This spring, students completed their study of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, read a variety of short stories, and worked to expand their vocabulary.
Students wrote an essay of comparison about two of the stories they read and also created and revised a five-to-seven-page short story of their own. They
ended the year by creating and presenting the Presentation of Mastery, which included revisions of representative introductory, body, and concluding
paragraphs; reporting on their experience of writing the short story; composing a formal essay on an Essential Question, and writing a Self-Assessment on
their growth as a reader and writer. Alina, you continued to excel this spring. As your written English continued to improve, you began to write essays that
featured your deep and advanced thinking about the works we studied. As I mentioned in your Presentation of Mastery meeting, you like to choose your
own topics and tackle ideas that are idiosyncratic but rooted in evidence from the text. You prepared very well for the Presentation of Mastery, leading the
discussion in a very organized, logical, and authoritative manner. Your revisions were excellent; I think the revised body paragraph was the most
successful overall. Your creative project, “Wind,” was rich in nostalgia and emotions; I also appreciate your attention to using metaphors and other literary
techniques to create an engaging, subtle, and believable story. For your Essential Question Essay, you focused primarily on the female characters from The
Hate U Give and Girl in Translation, yet you also managed to add insights gleaned from the final short stories to make your point. Well done! You have
made terrific progress as a reader and writer in English, Alina. Make sure to keep your English skills by reading throughout the summer. Consider reading

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Han Yue Chen Dana Hall School
RM 602, No.10, Lane 511, Weining 45 Dana Road
Road Wellesley, MA 02482-9010
Changning District 781-235-3010
Shanghai 200336
China
Grade Level: 9th Grade
Advisor: Ms. Danielle Rettinger

non-fiction related to either your sophomore science or Area Studies course. Congratulations, Alina!

Precalculus with Applications

Matt Enlow
In this last trimester of Precalculus with Applications, we dove deeper into trigonometry, studying inverse trig functions, application problems, verifying trig
identities, solving equations involving trig functions, and solving triangles using the Law of Sines and Law of Cosines. We then ended the year looking at
arithmetic and geometric sequences, and efficient ways of summing their terms. You had an excellent third trimester, Alina. While you remained quiet in
class, it was always clear that you were paying close attention and following along. Your assessment grades of 98%, 100%, 100%, and 100% were the
primary factors in your Trimester III grade of 99% (A). Well done! You made good use of the class time you were given to review for the final exam, and it
paid off. The exam was a challenging one, but you rose to that challenge and earned an 86% (B). Great job! Altogether, you earned an A (97%) for the
year. As of the writing of this comment, a decision has not been made about your petition. But regardless of which course you wind up taking next year,
the key to success is going to be seeking help outside of class early and often. Don't wait until you are overwhelmed to touch base with your teacher!
Thank you for a great year, Alina. I hope you have a wonderful, relaxing summer, and I wish you the best of luck in whatever the future holds for you.

Western Civilization
Brian Cook
In Western Civilization during Trimester III, we continued our study of Rome before transitioning to an investigation of Medieval Europe. We finished the
year with the Legacy Project, producing a museum exhibit that explored a theme of Western Civilization across Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages. Alina,
you continued to make great progress in Western Civilization. You were consistently well prepared for class and your homework was completed thoroughly
and punctually. You were a very strong self-advocate, regularly seeking help to clarify and extend your understanding. Your work on your graded
assessments continued to show a strong understanding of core content and concepts (50/50 Medieval DBQ, 42.5/45 Rome Unit Test, 125/125 Roman
Research Essay, 20/20 Roman Research Essay Presentation, Legacy Project - A). Your Legacy Project was a particularly strong effort, showing a
well-developed understanding of the themes of the course. I have enjoyed working with you this year and I look forward to hearing about your successes
in Area Studies.

Physics 9
John McShane
Alina, congratulations on completing Physics 9! In this final trimester, we continued to investigate concepts in physics, covering topics that included
projectile motion, work and energy, and optics. While projectile motion and work and energy were very mathematical in their foundation, optics was more
conceptual and hands-on. You demonstrated an ability to approach and understand both ways of thinking well! You demonstrated your ability to complete
homework assignments on time and correctly, earning an A average for homework. Your average on assessments for this final trimester was an A. It was
truly a joy having you in class this year. You are an incredibly bright student, and you should be very proud of how well you performed this year in physics;
I know I am! When faced with the cumulative year-end exam, you were tasked with incorporating all that we studied this year into a cohesive body of
understanding. You met that challenge head-on and performed extremely well, earning an A on the final exam! Great job Alina! As was the case in physics,
many of the topics build upon one another, which will continue in chemistry, therefore making those connections throughout the year will be key to being
successful next year. I encourage you to utilize Conference Period and Science Lab more consistently next year as they will help reaffirm the ideas that
are presented in class. Again, it was great to have you in class this year and I hope you have a great summer!

French I
Mary Potter
Alina,
You did brilliantly with everything we worked on from the start of Trimester III, continuing your outstanding performance since the start of the school year. The
dictées were an enormous challenge to most people in the class, but you aced them all, reflecting an excellent grasp of the connection between the written and the spoken word.
Thank you for your focus as we learned many new verbs, both regular and irregular, and mastered vocabulary that allowed us to talk about ourselves and about friends, family, things
to do, and places to go. Your final assessment, which was a spoken interview with a classmate, reflected fine preparation. The maturity, good humor, and joy that were obvious as you
and your partner recorded the interview absolutely made my day. I wish you well in French II Honors next year and hope you will come back to see me and let me know how your year
is unfolding. Je vous souhaite de bonnes vacances d’été et beaucoup de succès pour l’année prochaine.

Creating Character
Daniel Morris
This trimester the class focused on the aspects of directing. Through directing and performing monologues, guiding warm-ups, and leading actors through
scene work, each student was able to explore their own unique directing style. Alina, thank you for your focus and contributions this trimester. I enjoyed
watching you develop your piece from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This is a difficult monologue that you made look easy due to your fantastic energy and

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Han Yue Chen Dana Hall School
RM 602, No.10, Lane 511, Weining 45 Dana Road
Road Wellesley, MA 02482-9010
Changning District 781-235-3010
Shanghai 200336
China
Grade Level: 9th Grade
Advisor: Ms. Danielle Rettinger

passion. When it was your turn to lead warm-ups, you explained each activity well. The ensemble responded well to your approach and strong connections
were established through your direction. I appreciated the progression of each activity that you included and how you gave everyone a chance to
participate. The piece that you directed showed how well you can create a strong connection on stage. You were able to evoke wonderful characters from
your actors. It’s clear that you helped to establish a strong backstory for this relationship. Your creative blocking helped to show the waves of the scene
and create a natural feel for the story. Great job!

Music Les. Non-Credit

Music School Faculty
Alina, it has been a pleasure working with you this trimester. You continued studying “Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2” by Chopin. This is a very challenging piece
because it involves intricate rhythmic patterns, and you made it sound beautiful and feel effortless at the Honors’ Recital, Bravo!! We moved on to learning
Mozart’s “Piano Sonata in G Major, K. 283” soon after the recital. This piece has a very different sound compared to Chopin’s music as Mozart belonged to
the Classical Period whereas Chopin was a Romantic Era composer. Classical Period pieces have much cleaner sound with little to no use of the pedal. You
learned how to employ these stylistic differences and use different approaches to the same musical notations, such as the grace notes, in order to
accurately represent a composer’s music. An ongoing goal that you’ve been working towards is making clearer articulations and bringing out inner melodies
by finding the right volume balance between both hands. Great job! Dr. Huang

Riding-PE
Riding Center Faculty
Alina, you have worked well on your position at the canter this trimester. Keep remembering to keep your hands low and balance with your legs on the
horse. This will help your horse to stay cantering at a consistent pace. Overall, well done!
-Team DHS

EXPLANATIONS

Numerical Equivalents for Letter Grades:

A (93-100), A- (90-92), B+ (87-89), B (83-86), B- (80-82), C+ (77-79), C (73-76), C- (70-72), D+ (67-69), D (63-66), D- (60-62), E (Fail <60)

H (Honors), HP (High Pass), P (Pass), LP (Low Pass), F (Fail), NG (No Grade)

Report Card Legend

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