by Melodee PETERS | Jan 16, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary English, The Grades
This first week back the Grade 7 students started their Poetry Unit. The focus is on learning about the various forms of poetry and the styles in which poets express their points of view and feelings. As part of their discovery, the students worked on Acrostic poems...
by Melodee PETERS | Nov 28, 2024 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Humanities, The Grades
Grade 7 students were tasked to create their own quiz questions and answers based on a reading text about the geography of Mesopotamia. In class, this week, they were introduced to the Kagan Cooperative Learning structure called Quiz-Quiz-Trade. This activity is...
by Melodee PETERS | Nov 14, 2024 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English, The Grades
The Grade 9 students are in their second week of the new unit and have explored perspectives of courage. This week, they drafted interviews of characters involved in the first spacewalk in history and the courage involved in the event. They read their interviews with...
by Melodee PETERS | Nov 14, 2024 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English, The Grades
The grade 8s are heading towards the end of their current unit based on the novel, “The Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton. Last week, 2 of their peers engaged them in learning activities about the conflicts in the novel. The activity they particularly enjoyed was...
by Melodee PETERS | Nov 12, 2024 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), The Grades
The grade 7s had an opportunity to visit the Book Fair on Monday morning during advisory. A fair number of them left with new books to read over the long weekend. Books ranged from Grammar support to fiction such as a new book from the “Diary of a Wimpy...
