Houses
The student body of Crosswinds is divided into six houses. These houses are called Sun, Sol, Earth, Pangaea, Water, and Aquarius.
- Sun, Sol: As of 2012, The Sun and Sol Houses contain students in 6th and 7th Grade.
- Earth, Pangaea: The Sol, Earth, and Pangaea houses contain students in 7th and 8th grade. The students are sorted into their houses randomly.
- Water: The Water house contains students in 9th grade.
- Aquarius: Aquarius contains students in 10th grade.
Schedule: The Crosswinds calendar is divided into four quarters, and each quarter is separated by a month of break. The effect of this is that crosswinds is a year-round school, with school in June and July. Instead of a traditional summer vacation, Crosswinds students have the months of November, February, May, and August off. Students have the option to take elective classes called "intersession" during these break periods.
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“These were such houses as the lumberers of Maine spend the winter in, in the wilderness ... the camps and the hovels for the cattle, hardly distinguishable, except that the latter had no chimney.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And the Harvard students in the brick
hallowed houses studied Sappho in cement rooms.
And this Sappho danced on the grass
and danced and danced and danced.
It was a death dance.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)