by Meghan KENNEY | May 18, 2017 | Grade 8, Secondary English
Grade 8s have been studying the techniques of propaganda, both how to recognize it and how to create it. As their culminating project they had to create a piece of propaganda related to an event in the French Revolution, which we had been studying in Humanities. The...
by Meghan KENNEY | May 4, 2017 | Grade 8, Secondary History
As we have been studying revolutions in the grade 8 classroom, we wanted to look at the difficulties of being a politician. So the class divided into different French political parties from the time of the revolution, and had to draft a constitution to represent their...
by Meghan KENNEY | Apr 26, 2017 | Grade 8, Secondary History, Secondary Team Leader
Grade 8s have been practicing a style of taking notes called “sketchnoting”, which means using a combination of text and images to record concepts and ideas. This method requires students to interact with the information much more deeply, as they make...
by Meghan KENNEY | Apr 6, 2017 | Grade 10, Secondary English
Grade tens have been reading An Inspector Calls in class for IGCSE. It has been quite a contrast to reading Shakespeare, and students enjoyed learning about the elements of a well-made play, and developing their dramatic reading skills.
by Meghan KENNEY | Mar 16, 2017 | Grade 10, Secondary English
Grade 10 IGCSE English involves learning how to write in a variety of styles. One style that we just learned about is the formal report. So to practice this, students took on the role of a visiting CIS committee, and created a report about the school and its...
