Well, there hasn’t been much English going on this week – except the Grade 7 Dystopia magazine project – as the rest of the grades had exams. It wouldn’t be particularly interested to talk about tests and scores – other than the fact that such tests are very useful opportunities for providing useful feedback to students and give them a clear pathway for improvement – so I’ll focus on something else. As part of Grade 11’s IB Diploma English course we examine the origins of words, known as etymology. Here is an interesting article linked to their study on the many ‘borrowed’ words in the English language:
http://www.bbc.com/news/
