Mr. Shilhanek’s Eighth Grade LASS – Spanish-American War

Mr. Shilhanek’s eighth grade LASS class has completed the committee phase on their legislative bills on the YouthLeadership Initiative’s E-Congress simulation. His students provided amendment suggestions to students’ bill from around the country and are awaiting the return of their bills to see if they…

Mr. Shilhanek’s 7th Graders Practice Performance and Write Essay

Mr. Shilhanek’s seventh grade LASS class has nearly completed their Twelfth Nightessay. This week saw the students start to block and act out their scenes. Most students have memorized their lines, but check with your son or daughter to see. Working with them will show…

Sixth Grade Reading Dragonwings

Mr. Shilhanek’s sixth grade LASS class is currently reading Dragonwings, an intriguing novel about an 8-year-old boy’s journey from China to meet and work with his father in America. Students are reading and annotating the novel in order to answer literature response questions. From those…

Auction is March 12

The deadline to RSVP for our Night of All Knights Auction & Gala is fast approaching on Friday, February 26. Please note that all new families receive one complimentary ticket. Be sure sure to get your RSVP into the front desk or via our auction…

Quest Parent Basketball Game

The Quest Academy parents played the Quest Academy boys’ and girls’ basketball team. Everyone had a great time. The score was close. It was a fantastic year with the varsity capturing second place in our annual Quest Academy Invitational. Our junior varsity team captured its…

6th Grade Reading Dragonwings

Quest Academy sixth graders spent time reading to each other in groups, annotating, and answering literature response questions. This exercise was an opportunity for the kids to hear others read, and in the process bounce ideas off each other. Students annotated while reading and discussing…

E-Congress Bills

We finished our E-Congress bills and have sent them to committee. Representative Adam Kinzinger’s staff graciously provided some insight to our bills, which hopefully helped them become more viable to advance from committee, starting next week. We will receive bills from around the country to…

Twelfth Night Reading Concludes

Mr. Shilhanek’s Quest Academy seventh grade LASS class has completed the reading of Twelfth Night in class. Annotations have been checked, the questions will all be turned in by Tuesday, and the students will start composing their essay with a clear and provable thesis. From…

Angel Island Poetry

In a preview of readingDragonwings by Laurence Yep, Mr. Shilhanek’s LASS class analyzed Angel Island poems and will present them to class Tuesday. In order to understand more of what Moonshadow and his father Windrider suffer in their efforts to get to know one another…

Auction is Saturday, March 3

Our Night of All Knights Auction & Gala is Saturday, March 12, at 6:00 p.m. at the Cotillion in Palatine. For all things Auction, e.g. event details, ticket purchases, silent and live auction item previews and more, visit our Auction website. I look forward to…