by webtester | Nov 7, 2012 | Grade 6, Humanities, Secondary History
Around 20,000 years ago Neanderthals, our closest relatives in the family tree of man, went extinct. This left only us, Homo sapiens, as the dominant species on the planet. Our more complex brains (developed by thousands of years of eating fish) made us more adaptable...
by webtester | Nov 7, 2012 | Grade 9, Humanities, Secondary History
Grade 9 recently sat for a test in History. The topic was our current unit, Meiji-era Japan, and the questions were pulled from past IGCSE exams. This was the students’ first real exposure to a test-like atmosphere in IGCSE History and the experience, I believe,...
by Wayne Hampton | Oct 24, 2012 | Community and Service, Grade 10, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Humanities, Primary P.E., Primary Visual Arts, PTA, Secondary English, Secondary History, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science, Secondary Team Leader, Secondary Visual Arts, Uncategorized
This week students have been focusing on using their calendars, organising their folders and notes, and updating their personal websites with finished work (see the featured picture). Many were also involved with helping organise ‘Movie Night’ as a CAS ‘Service’...
by webtester | Oct 24, 2012 | Grade 8, Humanities, Secondary History
Mrs. Provencher has put up a new white board in the SLS dedicated to a “word of the week”, a word we hope the students will internalize and use in the future. This week’s word was legacy. A perfect word in Grade 8 History class this week. Ask your...
by webtester | Oct 23, 2012 | Grade 10, Humanities, Secondary History
“There are two hours of my life I’m never getting back.” Surely something like this was running through the minds of Grade 10 as they exited their History exam on Monday. They’d just finished a full-length IGCSE exam. Paper 2, to be exact. This...
by webtester | Oct 17, 2012 | Grade 9, Humanities, Secondary History
Last week I quoted Eugene O’Neil saying something about history repeating itself. I do believe that history has a very circular nature about it, but there’s something a bit too neat (and borderline Calvinist) about O’Neil’s statement....
