by Geetika MEKHALA | Nov 14, 2019 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English
What shapes our identity? How do context and points of view influence and change our identity? These are some inquiry questions we are exploring as we read our novel ‘Night’, a memoir of a holocaust survivor. After having read the first chapter, and in...
by Geetika MEKHALA | Nov 7, 2019 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP)
This week, grade 11 students launched into a core element of the DP program – Extended Essay. We started by expressing our feelings towards it, exhibiting our current knowledge, and asking burning questions. In the following weeks, the students will be looking...
by Geetika MEKHALA | Nov 7, 2019 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Secondary English
Having successfully completed their IOCs last week, grade 12 DP English class worked on reviewing Paper 1 skills this week. Additionally, they have been researching contextual information for their next literary work – ‘Persepolis’. I look forward to...
by Geetika MEKHALA | Oct 30, 2019 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Secondary English
The grade 12 English class hit the ground running after the week long break. They survived a grueling assessment, Individual Oral Commentary, which tests their ability to think on their feet and express themselves orally by analyzing a pre-studied text. Well done,...
by Geetika MEKHALA | Oct 17, 2019 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English
In the past couple of weeks, our grades 7 and 8 language acquisition students have learned to use similes and adjectives to ‘show’ rather than ‘tell’ something. This culminated in a descriptive writing assessment to finish off our unit on...
