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yearbook- a short, simple, yet powerful phrase that exemplifies the collective ownership of the Graded Experience. Whereas some students around the world simply indicate that they “go to a school where they take advanced Chemistry” or they “study at a school which is known for its sports program” or they “attend a school with a great arts department”... Graded students tend to use the possessive ‘our’ to endearingly describe their experience at school. Rather than ‘go to, study at, attend’, the learning journey at Graded is described with much more emotional attachment and ownership. It is ours, constructively created by all and sustained by everyone involved - students, parents, teachers, staff, and other community members. One gets out of Graded what one puts into it.

“It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something

with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.”

- Adam Fletcher

And there is no better way to capture this collective student voice than through language and images generated directly by students. This is what Nossa Graded sets out to do... it is a journey of the 2014-15 Graded Experience through student-generated words, notes, images, and graffiti. Nossa Graded reflects student voice at its best. It informs the rest of us what is most meaningful and valued by our students.

“And you, of the tender years, can’t know the fears that your elders grew by... and so please, help them with your youth, they seek the truth...”

- Graham Nash

Our students, our school, Nossa Graded !

Abraços,Lee FertigSuperintendent

The Graded Yearbook has been a publication that many students wait for anxiously year after year. The process starts with a selection of theme and design, continues with the creative and building process, and finishes with hours of revision to make sure our pages are ready for the community.

When this year’s staff began to conceptualize, we realized that our purpose was to make a collection of memories that anyone could revisit and treasure. With this perspective, the staff designed an interactive, creative yearbook full of memories and personal jokes that everyone could connect to. By using student made doodles and graffiti, as well as stories told by faculty and students, we were able to put together a book that holds a lot of personality and one that you will hopefully have fun with.

The 2014-2015 yearbook is brought to you by a hard-working staff that spent months debating the colors, fonts, and drawings that were incorporated into these pages and whom I was honored to work with. A lot of time was spent working on a publication that we hope you will all enjoy, connect to and keep forever. I certainly will.

This time, the yearbook had an even greater importance to me, as it is the last one that I will be contributing to as an editor, as a student, and as a reader. With that in mind, I strived to help create a book that the Graded community would remember and cherish for a long time. The idea of including memories and jokes this year was a meaningful step towards making the yearbooks more personal and relatable. As a Graded Lifer, having been at this school for 12 years, I know I will refer to this book in the future and be able to look back at all my time spent here.

Finally, I want to thank all of the talented art students who provided amazing doodles for us to use and helped us make this book successful. We hope you enjoy reading through these pages as much as we have enjoyed making them for you!

Thank you,Fernanda FisznerEditor-in-Chief

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Board of DirectorsRoberto Sallouti - PresidentMarvin Boakye - Vice-PresidentRenato Ochman - SecretaryLuiz Claudio Galeazzi - TreasurerMonica Boudaye Della Nina Fabio CoelhoLee Fertig - Ex-OfficioAna Cabral Gardner Paige Geiger Dennis Hankins Rodolpho Protasio Johann Mathias von Bernuth

special thanksFer d’Andrade FotografiaJennifer Gadsden-CarpenterKarin GunnLucinha ArianiPaulo ItoPhoto Club members

Art byHigh School Visual Art studentsLower & Middle School doodlersPhoto I students

Cover art inspired by:Simon dos Santos’s design

Yearbook Staff

Marta Jorda Garcia :: High School EditorLikes: traveling, pavé, weekends, minions, mangos, my bed and hugs Dislikes: airplanes, selfies in public, waking up early and mondays

Tibet Alptekin :: Arts & Events Editor

Gabriela Lati :: Activities Editor

“What? Was it due today?”

Cesca Civita :: Senior Editor

Marcela Riechert :: Activities Editor

Devan Gardner :: Sports Editor

Lu Barbosa :: Advisor + Art Director

“Ma, calm down, there are still four minutes left”.

Likes: food, elephants, friends, snowboarding, Miami, LA, talking, drawing and buying clothesDislikes: summatives, sushi, shouting, homework and being interrupted

“Be confident in who you are and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.”

Likes: Beyoncé, my friends, American Horror Story, meeting new people and tumblrDislikes: the color green, exercising, going to bed early, thinking about my future and blood

“Creativity is a way of knowing. Connect, free yourself and enjoy what the universe has to offer you.”

Likes: smiles, grins, giggles, laughs, chuckles, eye to eye, a good dose of imagination and lots of loveDislikes: hypocrisy, frantic consumerism, stereotypes and ego trips

“Life is just so much easier when you just chill out.”

Likes: sports, music, sushi and almost everyoneDislikes: boats and Sam

“Bii, the summative is due tomorrow! Facetime AGORA!”

Likes: movies, food, vacation, beach, skiing, Angra, New York, shopping and festivalsDislikes: reading boring books, tests, Veracross and fake people

“Live, love, laugh.”

Likes: brigadeiro, the o.c., rollercoasters, goofy people, online shopping, hot showers, sleeping and tanningDislikes: waking up at 7am, high heels, clowns, unfaithfulness, peanuts and numbers

Yearbook STaff

Fe f iszner :: Editor-in-chiefLikes: cats, #7, chick flicks, feel good tea, dance shows, chocolate, chocolate and chocolateDislikes: the color orange, spiders, papaya, goodbyes, #7, coriander and low battery

Ma Rodrigues :: Faculty & Staff Editor

Sarah Santiago :: Art & Design Editor

“I’m trying to set the world record for grooving.”

Sam Fertig :: Content Editor

Vivian Aidukaitis :: Photo Editor

Esther Choe :: Lower School + Art & Design Editor

Dani Serwaczak :: Middle School Editor

“Worry about things that matter.”

Likes: singing, watching trash TV, churrasco on sundays, hot soccer players e um sertanas de leiDislikes: Esther Choe, mangoes, skittles, maple syrup and raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies

“We have to go to class, we ‘re going to be late!”

Likes: Rio, watching FRIENDS, family reunions, supermarkets and carnaval Dislikes: commercials, formatives, volume of the TV on an odd number and diets

“If getting addicted to TV shows was an actual condition, I would be the first to be diagnosed with it.”

Likes: gymnastics, TV shows, my phone, netflix and wifi Dislikes: school on a monday, running around the track and tests

“You can’t be sad when you are holding a cupcake.”

Likes: my phone, weekends, traveling, TWD, waking up before alarm goes off and getting to sleep moreDislikes: Sarah Santiago, no wifi, waking up early, cucumber, summatives and school after a long weekend

“Should I sleep or should I shower? I could sleep in the shower. But I’m also starving.” - Cristina Yang

Likes: Ashlyn Farnes, Grey’s Anatomy, Watching GA with Misaki and giving Misaki spoils about GADislikes: deaths in GA, Cristina Yang leaving GA and when none of my friends have seen the latest GA

“I’m very narrow-minded towards my open-mindedness. Deal with it, but only if you want to.”

Likes: bears, music, pumpkin pie and bears playing music at Thanksgiving dinnersDislikes: spiders, Devan, pollution and people with strong work ethics

Table of Contents

014 Faculty & Staff 016 Faculty & Staff Headshots 028 Back In The Day 030 Teacher Farewells

042 Lower School 044 Pre-primary 056 Grade 1 062 Grade 2 068 Grade 3 074 Grade 4 080 Grade 5

086 Middle School 086 Grade 6 094 Grade 7 100 Grade 8

106 High school 108 Grade 9 114 Grade 10 120 Grade 11

126 Seniors 128 Grade 12 134 Senior Baby Pictures 138 Senior Wills, Parent Dedications & Superlatives

216 Activities218 Ardusat218 Baking For All 219 Bricks For Community219 Cancer Shelter 220 CBT220 Community Service Learning 221 Day Care221 Debate Group 222 Do Something222 Drama Club 223 Elderly Home223 FALA 224 Film Club224 GAA 225 Gastronomy 4 Geeks225 GBC 226 GEE226 GIN 227 GMT227 Go Green 228 Graded Coding Academy228 GradedLive229 Gradio229 GSC 230 HACIA230 Harmony 231 Ilha do Cardoso231 Knowledge Bowl 232 LAFF232 Lê Comigo 233 LS Leadership233 Math Club 234 Math Counts234 MUN Middle School 235 MUN High School235 PGC 236 Photo Club236 SAB 237 Sister School237 Speak Up 238 Student Voice238 The Talon

240 Sports 242 JV Basketball Boys & Girls 243 JV Futsal Boys & Girls 244 JV Soccer Boys & Girls 245 JV Volleyball Boys & Girls 246 Little 8 248 Varsity/JV Cheerleading Sem 1 249 Varsity/JV Cheerleading Sem 2 250 Varsity Basketball Boys 251 Varsity Basketball Girls 252 Varsity Futsal Boys 253 Varsity Futsal Girls 254 Varsity Soccer Boys 255 Varsity Soccer Girls 256 Varsity Softball Boys 257 Varsity Softball Girls 258 Varsity Volleyball Boys 259 Varsity Volleyball Girls 260 Big 4 261 SALT 262 Big 8

264 Arts & Events 266 LS Holiday Concert 267 Band :: Trip & Jazz Festival 268 Choir :: AMIS & Orlando 269 Strings :: Festival & AMIS 270 Graded Voices 272 Pride & Prejudice 273 School House Rock! Live 274 The Butler 275 The NSA’s Guide to Winning Friends and Influencing People 276 K-12 Art Exhibition 277 Artist in Residence :: Paulo Ito 278 Battle of the Books 280 Celebration of the World 282 Destination Imagination 283 Feira do Livro 284 Grade 1 :: Sleepover 285 Grade 2 :: Toca da Raposa & Pullman 286 Grade 3 :: Burle Marx & Museu da Imigração 287 Grade 4 :: Carroção 288 Grade 5 :: Tietê Trip 289 Grade 6 :: São Luiz do Paraitinga 290 Grade 7 :: Petar291 Grade 8 :: Minas Gerais 292 Grade 9 :: Foz do Iguaçu293 Grade 10 :: Bahia 294 Grade 11 :: Amazônia, Paraty, Diving & Patagonia 296 Grade 12 :: Recife 297 Guest Speakers 298 Halloween Benefit Bash 300 Innovate Conference 301 Poetry Recitation 302 MS Dance 303 MS Rollercoaster Project 304 Semana da Patria 305 Teacher Appreciation Week 306 Thanksgiving 308 Wacky Week 310 Zombie Zoo

FACULTY & sTAFF

“When someone falls asleep in my class I wake them up with loud

music on their ear.” - Jennifer Kagohara

“Something kind of funny about me is that I can’t tell jokes in a funny way no matter how hard I try. I think people actually

laugh because of how awkward I look in my effort to make the

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Thomas LynchTarsila LimaStella FilizolaStefano ArgalasSebastian MontagnaSandia Oksness

Samuel BernalPedro Jório Salgado Gama

Pedro TannuriPaulo Sérgio ZoppeiOlivia PierryNina Ommundsen

Michel SalloutiMelissa Klabin Ongaratto

Mariana Loures ValeMarcos Gonzalez del Solar

Lucas LorchLaura Waddington

Josefina Gonzalez del Solar

Isabelle ChangHelena PierryGabriella MunozFelipe Jório Salgado Gama

Felipe Platero Margaride

Emilia Contrini Trevino

Cordelia Juarez De Zamacona

Claire CouriBenjamin CalheirosAntonella VidigalAlexia Filgueiras Yuri KulikowskyYasmin TingValentina Verdi

“I like swinging on the playground with my friends, because we both can go really

high.” - João Hopp

“And I like swinging with João”.

- Alexandre Chang

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Yoji WatanabeWalter HoelzVitor ResendeVictoria FernandesVaughn GardnerThomas Dreyer

Tatiana BezerraTamima MouradSimon Chamorro Ramirez

Sarah BastosSabrina KimRodrigo Ko

Ritvika SharmaRafael WurzmannPriscila Santos Pierella AbdonPeter ChaoPedro Werebe

Pedro Salles LeitePedro RodriguesPedro HannudPablo SallerOlivia Tavares PaesNina Mayer de Paulo

Nicole GrecoNicole AverbachNicolas RaneyNicholas RegenNicholas Householder

Nicholas Goldlust

“Demanding but rewarding.” - Bruno Riguzzi

Grade 11 Grade 11

SENIORs

“The style for this year was havaiana, short de futebol e camisa

do São Paulo.”- Guilherme Pires

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“The best excuse for being late is ‘I thought I was going to skip class, but then I realized I had a question

about my IA...’” - Andrew Veilleux

TOP: Gu Hong Min, Min Kyung Shin, Michael Borger, Maria Isabel Guinle, Beatrice Lorencatto, Tatiana Curiati, Susie Park, Hyelin Lee, Hee Jun Yang, Kyu Yeon Shim, Andrew Chiang, Luis Wolfrid, Franco Torres and Hyo Sang KilBOTTOM: Melanie de La Paz, Paulina Martinez, Dana Zamat, Faria Nasruddin, Hyun Jin Lee, Thiago Lee, Yejin On, Julia Lee, Fernanda Sayão, Julia Marangoni, Sabrina Carneiro, Julia Rodrigues and Seo Hyun ChoMISSING: Alex T

“As the years went by we started working much

more and bonded as a group.” - Tibet Alptekin

“Warning: we are prone to spontaneous singing, dancing,

and acting.”- ELiza Knode

“Drama club isn’t just any club, it’s for special people,

it’s for us.”- Beatriz Amorosino

“The students loved to use what they have learned in class, and to have the

opportunity to have “gently used” clothes, shoes, home utensils,

all for a very good price. To those who donated items, the whole FALA community

gives their thanks.” - Julia Marangoni, The Talon

“The Do Something club at Graded is currently in its second year and running strong. It has over twenty-five members, working

on three different projects. We’ve worked on two main projects in the past: the ‘R U OK?’ Day first semester and the Lower

School Toy Drive second. The “R U OK?” Day was great, with over 110 candy grams sold while the LS Toy Drive was astonishingly

successful, thanks for the contributions and participation from Lower School students.” - Michael Borger, The Talon

TOP: Tibet Alptekin, Beatriz Amorosino and Josefina Perez JimenezMIDDLE: Benjamin Debrosse, Mitch Herr and Eliza KnodeBOTTOM: Allyson Milner, Bruna Piccin and Luana Tone MISSING: Liora Weisz

TOP: Julia Pontes, Julia Saliba, Rafael Regis, Cris Mateus and Guillermo Loyola RuizBOTTOM: Alan Garcia Ramos Hochman, Marta Jorda Garcia, Bianca Marinkovic and Angela Garcia MISSING: Gabriel Reg and Laura Gibs

TOP: Anoushka Gandhi, Catalina Berretta, Mi Jin Kim, Michael Borger, Nicole Greco, Amanda Johansson, Lucas Ahn, Celie Ahn and Faria NasruddinMIDDLE: Priscilla Santos, Carol Kim, Sarah Bastos and Sabrina Kim BOTTOM: Carla Hidalgo, Ana Sofia Thomas Ibarra, Katarina Hildebrandt, Daniela Serwaczak and Lucas ValimMISSING: Isabella Shim, Celie Ahn, Daniel Sneyers, Akari Esaka, Luana Tone, Luiz Wolfrid, Mitch Herr, Shruthi Raj and Sylvia Yang

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254 255TOP: Kristen O’Connor (coach), Giovana Mendes, Vivian Aidukaitis, Celie Ahn, Marielotte Van Ballegooijen, Catalina Berretta, Victoria Lutfalla, Ida Johansson, Mayu Kawahara, Julia Marangoni, Amanda Sue, Piper Conway, Enrico Pasquini (coach) and Andrea LaughlinBOTTOM: Fernanda Garcia, Mi Jin Kim, Sabrina Kim, Delfina Marin, Isabella Dias, Ashlyn Farnes, Isabelle Chang, Mariana Delacqua, Yejin On, Samantha Gistren, Dana Zamat and Maxine Peterson

Coach Captain MVPCoach Captain MVP

TOP: Ricardo Vieira (coach), Frederico Pires, Nicholas Regen, Michael Thomas, Lucca Della Libera, Lucas Espanha, Pietro Cavalcanti, Carlos Lopez, Matheus Abizaid, Guilherme Pires and Aldo Petrolino (coach)BOTTOM: Franco Torres, Henrique Souza, Luca Seripieri, Luis Felipe Santos, Daniel Castano, Gabriel Andrade, João Ferraz, Leonardo Kim and Miguel Diaz

“Gente, tem uma borboleta enorme aqui!” “#IOGURT”

Varsity SOCCER GirlsVarsity SOCCER Boys

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“We liked the Indiana Jones since it was very misterious and interesting, since we really thought that the walls were going to close on us!”

- Aislinn Marrón, Beatriz Vieira, Lara Siburu Poirier & Aakanksha Verma

“I liked that there were a lot of different activities and they were all very adventurous.” - Lani Goyert

“I liked that I was able to see different animals that I have

never seen before.” - Eduardo Choe

Grade 4 :: CarroçãoGrade 3 :: burle marx & museu da imigração

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“It was amazing, great music, and amazingly adapted to

the theme.”- Guadalupe Perez Jimenez

“It was fun to work with others and get to learn science in a new way.” - Juan Carlos Thomas Ibarra

“Inspite all the struggles, it was very fulfilling to see the results at the end.” - Clara Miranda

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“People looked ridiculous. That was weird. LMA.”- Devan Gardner

“I wore black on Wacky Week, it matched the color of my soul.” - Saniya Joshi

“It finally gave Lucile the excuse to dress up as a minion and paint herself yellow.” - Melanie De La Paz

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