Mr. Shilhanek’s Quest Academy LA/SS Update

Welcome to Middle School (6th graders), seventh graders, eighth graders, and new students. It has been a fantastic first week and a half. New students and sixth graders are acclimating themselves to the Quest Academy Middle School. Through the first week and a half, each…

Quest Honors and Chamber Choir Soar at NOLA Heritage Music Festival

Quest Academy’s Honors Choir and Chamber Choir both earned gold ratings at the New Orleans Heritage Music Festival. Quest’s choir, a middle school choir, earned the top score among the all high school choir competition. Quest scored 190 out of a possible score of 200….

Quest Academy Presents: Romeo and Juliet

Please enjoy what was a live telecast on Periscope of Quest Academy seventh graders performing Romeo and Juliet. Watch on #Periscope: @questgifteded performing Romeo & Juliet https://t.co/NlQnnbG2EB — Knightly Readers (@knightlyreaders) March 16, 2017

Mr. Shilhanek’s Eighth Grade LA/SS Produced Literary Podcasts

Mr. Shilhanek’s eighth grade LA/SS class produced podcasts for their February Independent Reading projects. Four groups read The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel, The Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley, and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Carde. Two of…

Quest Academy Hosts Author Cynthea Liu on Google Hangouts

Cynthea Liu prepared our Quest Academy middle schoolers for an upcoming anthology the students are going to publish. Students are going to dare themselves to work on something in their lives for seven days. After the seven-day experiment, students will write a 750-word first-person narrative…

Quest Academy Regional History Fair Qualifiers, April 22

Congratulations to these Quest Academy students who advanced to the Chicago Metro History Fair Regional competition in Chicago, Saturday, April 12 from 8:00-12:30 at Lane Tech High School. Quest Academy Regional Qualifiers Saturday, April 22, 2017 Documentaries (No Particular Order) Buchalo, Chris “From Cassius to…

Quest History Fair: Resounding Success

A huge thank you goes to the judges who came to Quest Academy’s History Fair. Quest hosted approximately 35 judges, both parents of Quest and professionals from outside the community. Our utmost appreciation goes to our students who have labored over these projects from the…