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About Our Program

PAVA 6th Grade

Magnet Coordinator

Kira Craig

Ms. Craig is a National Board Certified educator who has worked in LAUSD for 24 years. Her career includes teaching English/Language Arts to all of the middle-school grade levels, mentoring student-teachers, and serving as a literacy coach. She taught 8th Grade English in PAVA for two years before the opportunity to be the coordinator emerged. Making the choice to step out of the classroom, reflects how highly she thinks of the teachers and the students who are a part of this magnet.

Our Fearless Leader...

Mrs. Rivera

Science and Music Teacher

Math and Art Teacher

Ms. Jenkins

Meet Our Teachers...

About Our Program

PAVA 6th Grade

Performing and Visual Arts at PHMSi

PAVA's vision is to provide a rigorous learning environment where students experience the arts through its integration into their core classes as well as through the in-depth study of various artistic disciplines. We believe providing this environment for our students will propel them to excel academically, value the process of learning, and become lifelong learners who will be college and career-ready.

About Our Magnet...

Mrs. Rivera

Science and Music Teacher

Ms. Wagener

Math and Art Teacher

Ms. Jenkins

Ms. Williams

Dance Teacher

Meet Our Teachers...

History and Choir Teacher

Ms. Toschi

English and Theater Teacher

English

With Ms. Wagener

In English, we learned all about different types of writing, such as argument and creative. We read a short story called "The Hitchhiker" by Lucille Fletcher and a novel called Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.

My favorite assignment...

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Indirect Characterization Tracker

I chose this assignment because it helped me practice how to find important inferences in the literature that show how the character acts. This also happens to be what the assignment was about.

Science

With Mrs. Rivera

My favorite assignment...

Dichotomous Key Lab - Whitney Waithe

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Math

With Ms. Jenkins

My favorite assignment...

Black History Mathematician

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Science

With Mrs. Rivera

My favorite assignment...

This was an assignment where I had to create a dichotomous key (table, flowchart) in which it includes a key to solve the chart. Its chose this assignment because I enjoyed making the theme of it.

Dichotomous Key Lab - Whitney Waithe

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In Science, we've learned about natural systems, living systems, cells, body systems, and much more.

Math

With Ms. Jenkins

My favorite assignment...

Math topics include the following: GCF/LCM, rates and proportions, integers, expressions and equations, and statistics. If time allows, we get into basic geometry. We also do a handful of hands-on projects throughout the year.

Black History Mathematician

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The purpose of this assignment was to study how black people have evidently changed math and have helped math get where it is today. I chose this assignment because I love history, especially black history.

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With Ms. Toschi

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About the class...In History, we are studying Ancient Civilizations. We have studied ancient Egypt, Israel and Greece. We are learning about different cultures by learning about their history, music, dance, art, and literature.
We learned about the Greek gods and goddesses and have done slide presentations.

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My favorite assignment...

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Biography Book Talk

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This purpose of this assignment was to choose a book about a historical figure, then write an autobiography about it. I chose this assignment because I had the opportunity to use Malcolm X as my topic because he is probably my most favorite historical idol.

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History

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With Ms. Williams

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Ever curious about how choreographers get their inspiration? Well, you are in luck because currently we are learning about the world of Modern Dance and how using Pantomimes and gestures (real life movements) can be inspired into creating realistic dances. Who would have ever thought I can turn something as simple as brushing my teeth into a dance!?!

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My favorite assignment...

Modern Dance Prominent Figures Period 2

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This assignment was to study different dance idols through history. I chose this assignment because I enjoyed seeing other students views upon dance projected through the way they write about thee idols.

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Dance

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With Ms. Williams

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Ever curious about how choreographers get their inspiration? Well, you are in luck because currently we are learning about the world of Modern Dance and how using Pantomimes and gestures (real life movements) can be inspired into creating realistic dances. Who would have ever thought I can turn something as simple as brushing my teeth into a dance!?!

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My favorite assignment...

Modern Dance Prominent Figures Period 2

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This assignment was to study different dance idols through history. I chose this assignment because I enjoyed seeing other students views upon dance projected through the way they write about thee idols.

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Dance

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Art, Theater, Choir, and Music!

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This assignment was meant to let you pick actors you believe would do good in a certain play for your choice of what you wanted to make a play. I chose this assignment because it gave me the opportunity to cast actors for a play I actually would enjoy seeing.

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Casting a play

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