Welcome, incoming freshmen! While Trinity Hall classes are all-honors, you will have an entire community to help you navigate throughout your four years here.
Every student participates in “final experiences” at the end of the school year here at Trinity Hall, and you will soon learn Trinity Hall is an interdisciplinary school. This means that the majority of what you are learning in your classes will relate to other classes. With this in mind, your final experiences in engineering, physics, and math will all be connected.
At the end of your freshman year, your final experience for these will be the designing, building and evaluating of a car. You and a group of others in your class will be building the car in engineering. This car can be designed however you choose! Testing for your car will be measured in distance traveled. During the physics part of the project, you and your fellow group members will use school-allotted technology to calculate the velocity of your vehicle. You will take this data into your math class, in order to find the basic statistics for your car: mean, median and mode. Finally, with this information, you will create a three-slide presentation and present it in front of a panel of STEM teachers. Your group will share all of your steps, setbacks and successes during this entire process. After your presentation, you're all done with your STEM finals!
Your English final experience will be quite different. After memorizing a 16-20 line poem of your choice, you will recite it to your class. As you share your poem, you will hold an item that represents the symbolism within the text. After your recitation, you will explain how the item connects to the author’s words. Finally, you will write an analysis of your poem, and your English final is over!
Then, you can move on to your next class: world history! This will be your only “regular” final. For this class, you will take a multiple-choice test on all the content you learned in the past year.
For your world language finals (French or Spanish), you will use the skills you learned over the course of the year to plan, create and present a slideshow on a trip of your choice. The country you will pick will either have to be a French or a Spanish-speaking country. This will be an individual project.
Lastly, in Theology, you will work with a group of your peers to plan a potential service day trip for the following year. After presenting your project to the grade, your teacher will pick the best one and put it into action for the next year!
Final experiences will count as 10% of your final grade. Although this is a lot of information to take in, always remember that you have the whole Trinity Hall community behind you, ready to help!