by newuser | Oct 10, 2012 | Grade 6, Secondary English
Counting up or down is a great technique for creating tension in a story. The grade 6 class has seen first hand how suspense is established in Jerry Spinelli’s Wringer. They have created their own stories this week – most meant to give you goosebumps. You...
by newuser | Oct 10, 2012 | Grade 10, Secondary English
Check out some of Edgar Allan Poe’s classics at http://www.poemuseum.org/works.php and see which one creeps you out the most. Each of the grade 10 students compared the gothic elements in two of these stories analyzing how Poe uses setting, death and terror to...
by newuser | Sep 11, 2012 | Front Page, Grade 10, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary English, The Grades
Twice a week students in the Secondary Learning Suite will start their day huddled around a teacher on the proverbial carpet. If you thought story time was only for primary kids, you thought wrong. Read-alouds are an integral element of the Reader’s Workshop....
by newuser | Mar 7, 2012 | Grade 7, Secondary Maths
On Sunday we will be building kites in class. We will bring polygons, perimeter and surface area to life. Students are to bring heavy plastic bags in for this project.
by newuser | Mar 7, 2012 | Grade 10, Secondary English
Students are currently working on a research paper which will allow them to answer an essential question about a topic of their choice. The focus of this activity is the art of paraphrasing and correctly citing your sources. The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue is...
