---HAVE A WONDERFUL SUMMER!---

All Students: Click Below for Your Summer Reading Packets

Spanish IV Class Has Lunch at Rubamba!

Advice

​Learn From Your Mistakes
Advice from Leizhor Boateng 
Healthy Guidelines for Hopeless Romantics 
(It’s a Thing!)
By Renna Chambers
John Aponte's latest
work: "What I Crave Is Already Mine"
Ms. Wetmore helps Ms. Alfred's Class Honor Langston Hughes

Profiles

Celebrating Asian American Month
An interview with Ms. Yang
By Ashaliegh Carrington
Interview with Ms. Lewin
By Ashaliegh Carrington (6/17)
The Secret Of Saturday
By Ashaliegh Carrington
In Honor of International Women’s Day: ​A Letter to
​My Mom By Julia DiStasio
Hidden Teachers
By Dante Frazer
Interview with Daughter of Panther 21 member) ​
By Ashaliegh Carrington
Ms. Wetmore 
By Jada Nelson
Coop Publishing House visits the Yale Daily News
Click the photo to watch a short film the YDN staff made.
Great job, Kiara Muniz!
Kiara received $250 and placed third in the Elizabeth Greely regional portfolio competition.
Self portrait by creative writer Julia DiStasio

Memoir/Essay

Worst Experience
By Jayline Torres (12/16)
Agape Love
By Samantha Sims (12/16)
That Day
By Jasmin Garcia (12/16) 
Father of Neurosurgery
By Sonia Peterkin (12/16)
Rage
By Chelsey Jara (12/16)

Opinion

Dream Meanings
By Trenity Webber (6/17)
​​Anger Comes in Waves 
​By Taya McClease
Artwork by Taya McClease
​Dear Black Women 
​By Whitney Breland
I'm an Independent “Woman”
​By Renna Chambers 
Women’s Day
By Trenity Webber (3/17)
What I Reveal With Clothes Doesn’t Define My Worth By ​Liz Colón (3/17)     
Dear America
By Ashaliegh Carrington
What I Think About Fake News By Leizhor Boateng
C8H11NO2+C10H12N2O+C43H66N12O12S2 
(Love) By Dani Derraugh
"Lottery Tickets" by Elizabeth Alexander
Review By Dante Frazer 2/17) 
Karma
By Dante Frazer
Don't Let It Stress You
By Esmerlee Grant 12/16
Avoiding Conflict
By Joleen Dagradi  
The Trump Effect
By Floyd Robinson (12/16)
Love From the Outside Looking In
Mellody Massaquoi (11/16)
Drugs
By Dante Frazer (11/16)
Next Commander in Chief
By Jake DeLucia
Hillary vs. Donald
By Dante Frazer (10/16) 
Thoughts on "The Hunger Games"
​By Raven Joseph (7/16)

School and Community News

 Motown Performers Take Time to Visit Co-op! Photo by Mr. Esposito
Congratulations to Mr. Esposito and Friends on the Amazing Alumni Show!
Click above to view more photos by Mr. Esposito
Everyone Had a Great Time on the CAS Trip to NYC! 

PROM 2017! Click here to email your prom photos

Chinese 3 Class at Yale Art Gallery/Chinese 1 at Hong Kong Supermarket
Creative Writers Give Last Performance of the Year on the Main Stage
Click above for more photos. Photos by Mr. Esposito
Creative Writing Department Hosts Whole-Department Ice Cream Social
 Here's a little taste of the Co-op Choir Concert (Video from Mr. Esposito)
Great job, Junior Class! Your Spring Fling raised $166 for Save the Children!
Click above for more photos by Mr. Esposito.
Congratulations to our New National Art Honor Society Members!
The Ciacciarrella Quadruplets will attend Quinnipiac University together!
Photo by Peter Hvizdak/NHR
Creative Writing students honored at UConn's Jorgensen Center 
Professors Gina Barreca and Jason Courtmanche hand award certificates to Samantha Sims, Raven Joseph, and Daniella Derraugh for work published in the 19th issue of Connecticut Student Writers magazine. Kiara McCray received Honorable Mention. (Not pictured: Ashley Portillo and Elizabeth Condall received Honorable Mention; Ms. Englart received a teaching award.)
Congratulations to students (and their teachers) honored by Rosa DeLauro!
Creative Writing Sophomores Get Writing Ideas on Walk Around Town
Students selected for the Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro Congressional Art Competition: Dan Pappa, Imani Wilborne, Najae Thomas, Mia Cappiello Avery Kundert, John Aponte, Julie Francois, Lillian Brown, Samiyah Saunders, and Johanna Pere
Creative Writing students took an early morning walk and got an impromptu before-hours tour of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library with Director E.C. Schroeder and Mike Morand, then talked with Local 33 hunger strike protesters.
National Honor Society Dancers Work with Esteemed Choreographer
NHS for the Dance Arts students have been creating a piece for the renowned choreographer Jeremy McQueen.
Photos from the AP U.S. Government & Politics Kickoff Breakfast Thursday
Senor Hernandez and Spanish 3 Students Went to Spain and Portugal!
Congratulations to everyone on an awesome production of Urinetown!
Click above to see more photos from the show. Photos by Ms. Esposito
Visual Artists Have Well-Attended Opening Reception at 300 George Street
Creative Writers' work in Connecticut Student Writers magazine
National Art Society hard at work
Students silk screened their own shirts for the National Art Honor Society.
Coop Teachers show up in Hartford to support New Haven teachers' union
Several Co-op teachers went to the Public Service Employees Rally in Hartford Friday evening. Please ask them to share their experience. Thank you Mr. Smith, Ms. Purdie, Ms. Alfred, Mr. Brennor, Ms. Weires, Ms. Esposito and Gabby, and Mr. Foster (not in photo). Photo by Gabby Esposito.
See the senior show, Color TV, in the Black Box 3/23! (Photo by Mr. Esposito)
Congratulations to all who made a great Black History Month Celebration!
NHS officers with Black History Month speaker, Ronnell Higgins, Yale Chief of Police.
Students with Clarence Thomas at Yale Law School Moot Court competition
From Left: Joshua Handelsman (Yale Law School; Constitutional Law teacher), Jailene Paez (12th), Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, Starneisha Warren (12th), Ashley Ceravone (12th), Harry Murphy (Social Studies Teacher, Coop)
Revisiting History 
​By Ashaliegh Carrington (2/17)
Photo by Lee Friedlander 
Artwork by Taya McClease
I See You
Poem by Taya McClease
W. H. Black Coalition Celebrates Dr. King
Ms. Alfred & the Coop Choir performed.
Junior Cultural Dance Class from last week with Yale's Ballet Folklorico who shared Mexican Cultural Dance. (Photo courtesy of Ms. Bauer)
Photos by Ms. Wetmore
Co-op's 1st Annual Holiday Sweater Making Party a Huge Success!
And congratulations to students and staff who worked
​ with Mr. Howard to put together holiday gift bags for children in foster care!
Ms. Wetmore's AP Art History Class Visits MOMA in New York City
Photos by Ashaliegh Carrington
Congratulations to Mr. McAfee and the cast and crew of "Ruined"!
Click for more photos (all by Mr. Esposito)
Band Seniors at Freshman Awards
By Mr. Smith (12/16)
     Coop Band Seniors (Moises Perez, Tommy Powell, Mark Bromell, and Barry Esquilin) were asked by administrators to perform for freshman awards on Dec. 5th. The band created a great ambiance for the ceremony and the whole event was a great success!

Coronation 2016 Thanks to Mr. Esposito for taking photos

Facing History Class Takes a Trip to Harlem! Photos by Ashaliegh Carrington
CAS Outdoor Adventure Group:
​East Rock Park
Photo​ by Ms. Arnini
Coop Band junior/senior Jazz students at Shubert Theater (10/28)
Field Trip to Salem
Halloween Fun 
Photo​ by K'Lynn Torres
Ms. Laudermilch runs her first marathon! 
Co-op Parking Day!
Both Sides of the
​Same Story
Interview with Mr. Jones 
​by Ashaliegh Carrington
W.H. Festival Winners!
Mr. Chernak, Jon Soares, Fernando Roblero won 1st Annual Chalk Art Contest at WWHS. (11/16)

Travel 

From top left: Ms. Laudermilch: Ms. Alfred: Barbados. Ms. Yang: Beijing. New Zealand. Ms. Englart: Bar Harbor, Maine. Ms. Pugh: Uganda & Ethiopia. Mr. Smith: Maine. Mr. & Mrs. Esposito: Italy & Ireland. Mr. Cozzi: Ring of Kerry, Ireland. Ms. Wetmore: San Diego.
SUBMISSIONS
We welcome submissions from the entire Co-op Community. Click here or email [email protected]
Congratulations to staff on their Master's Degrees!
Top: Ms. Pugh. Above: Ms. Esposito and Mrs. Sargent. (Ms. Laudermilch also received degrees.)

Q.O.T.W.

"You don't have to be a rocket scientist to save yourself." (Tamara Alexander)

Poetry

​What You Don’t Know
By Leizhor Boateng
The Many Things
By Taya McClease 3/17)
What you want to see…
By K'Lynn Torres (3/17)
Walk The Talk
By Taina Hilario (11/16)

Satire

​Living the American (Oligarchical) Dream
​By Jorden Rivera (3/17)
How to Stay Politically Active After the Election
By Jorden Rivera (1/17)
Suing Saudi Arabia for 9/11 Satire by Jorden Rivera (11/16)

The Arts

Smart People (Review)
By Ashaliegh Carrington
Putting History Into Film Review by Ashaliegh
​Carrington
Diversifying The Theatre
Carrington Interviews Christine Scarfuto (11/16)
Interview with Artist William Villalongo
By Alumna Kayla Salters (6/16)
Nomble Tanner's Capstone: Directing the Dream
​By Ashaliegh Carrington

Alumni Page

To be honest
A Poem by Diamante Maldonado ('16)
With utmost candor
By Diamante Maldonado ('16)

Correction

Camille Rodriguez's art (above) was mislabeled on P. 6 of Metamorphosis 2016.

Bunnie Movie

See this film on Octavia Petaway's Youtube channel.

Coop Reporters!

Read work published this summer on www.c-hit.org by seniors Jake DeLucia, Jailene Pellot, and Liz Colon!

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