by Abby BREWER | Oct 8, 2015 | Secondary English, The Grades
After finishing Act 1, the 10th grade students had a chance to use a learning grid to review the play of An Inspector Calls! Students had to use the dice we borrowed from the Math department to select a row and a column each, then explain the significance of the image...
by Abby BREWER | Oct 1, 2015 | Creativity, Action, Service, The Grades
This year Secondary StuCo got fully involved in Book Week by hosting the Book Week Quiz during Advisory on Wednesday. After carefully choosing questions – not too hard and not too difficult, but just right – they read them out and let the House Teams...
by Abby BREWER | Sep 29, 2015 | Creativity, Action, Service, The Grades
In our CAS lesson this week, the 12th graders started their review on reflection. After talking about what reflection means to them, they created a list of what reflection is and what it is not. We talked about how being internally motivated to reflect was much...
by Abby BREWER | Sep 22, 2015 | Creativity, Action, Service, The Grades
We’re four weeks in to our school year and everyone is back in the swing of all things academic, which means it is high time to turn our attention to CAS and MCAS! The CAS/MCAS Board has been updated with opportunities that are presenting themselves. Secondary...
by Abby BREWER | Sep 22, 2015 | Secondary English
We started reading our first dramatic text in grade 10 English class last week: An Inspector Calls, by J. B. Priestley. Although we’ve not gotten very far yet – quite a bit of context is required to understand the play – we already have...
