Tell me a story ….

Students will be writing the ISAs this upcoming week and the written component requires them to write both a discursive/argumentative essay on a given topic and a narrative text from a visual prompt. Our secondary students are familiar with essay structure and must...

Isn’t it ironic…

The Gr. 7 class finished reading the novel Nothing But The Truth by Avi over the holiday and returned to a lesson on irony as the surprise ending was truly ironic. We used Youtube clips of Alanis Morissette’s song “Ironic” (which should be called Bad...

Gender Icons

The Gr. 11 Lang & Lit students have a comparison commentary to do over the holidays. They will be analyzing the techniques used by the author of a poem called Barbie Doll and the graphic artists who created one of the Marlboro cigarette advertisements.