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:
“A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates, as fast as the sun breeds clouds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,—to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)