by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Oct 14, 2021 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12
This week has been a transition week in Theory of Knowledge as we shift from looking at History as an area of knowledge into looking at the Arts. This transition provides valuable comparisons, though. We started by looking at the similarities between cubist art and...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Oct 12, 2021 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12
This week has been a transition week in Theory of Knowledge as we shift from looking at History as an area of knowledge into looking at the Arts. This transition provides valuable comparisons, though. We started by looking at the similarities between cubist art and...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Sep 23, 2021 | The Grades
This Wednesday, we had our first look at the TOK essay titles. This essay asks students to examine knowledge in relation to different areas of knowledge. The areas of knowledge covered in the TOK course are: history, mathematics, natural sciences, human sciences, and...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Sep 15, 2021 | The Grades
This week in English, Grade 11 has been skipping to the end before reading page one. We are going thousands of years back in time and looking at Ancient Greek drama. We will be studying the first of Sophocles Theban tragedies, Oedipus Rex. As we prepare to dive into...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Sep 9, 2021 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12
Over the past three weeks in diploma English, we have been examining advertisements and the techniques that are used to persuade an audience to buy a product. We examined 20 common techniques and how they are used. We, also, looked at the role of context and target...
