by Andrew JOHNSON | Feb 16, 2022 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
In English students are working in their poetry anthologies. They are applying their knowledge of poetic form and devices, such as rhyme, rhythm, personification, onomatopoeia and metaphor, to their own poems. They also investigated nonsense poems, haiku and...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Feb 9, 2022 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8
In English class Grade 8 have been investigating about newspapers. They have looked at the history of newspapers and whether there is a future for them in a digital age. They have analyzed the difference between a news report and feature report. Recently students...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Feb 2, 2022 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9
We have been studying an interdisciplinary unit, with Individuals and Societies, called Voices Form History. The theme is genocide and persecution and we are looking at literary responses to it. To do this, we have investigated poems written about the Holocaust,...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Jan 26, 2022 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
In English we completed the unit on ‘Who Will Fight for What Is Right?’ by writing and performing speeches. Students started the third unit of the year which is called ‘Expressing Ourselves’. In this unit students will create an anthology of poems. To prepare...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Jan 19, 2022 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English
In English Grade 8 students finished their unit on fitting in by creating a poster. They analysed a character from ‘The Outsiders’ and compared it to their own personality. This term we have started studying newspapers; inquiring about why they exist and the impact...
