by Gary GOODWIN | Jan 14, 2021 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Humanities
Grade 9 students have begun the summative assessment for their IDU which has explored traumatic events and how people and communities respond to them. We will be creating an exhibition of student writing as well as videos that highlight different events and how the...
by Gary GOODWIN | Nov 19, 2020 | Grade 10, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Humanities, Secondary History
Students are currently working on an essay where they answer the question: “Why was there revolution in Iran in 1979?” We began this assignment by looking at our notes and getting all long term and short term causes of the revolution into a jamboard. We then...
by Gary GOODWIN | Oct 29, 2020 | Grade 10, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Humanities, Secondary History
This week, students in year 10 presented draft resolutions on the issue of cyber crime as part of our Individuals and Societies unit. The thought, research, and writing that went into these is astounding. Diplomatic writing was done at a very high level. Collaboration...
by Gary GOODWIN | Sep 3, 2020 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Humanities, Secondary History, Secondary ToK
It was great seeing everyone back in class this week. I have missed our conversations. Thank you to all students who participated and helped each other as we moved to the distance learning format. Here are some photos of student collaboration within Google Jamboard....
by Gary GOODWIN | Jun 11, 2020 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Humanities, Secondary History, The Grades
This week, grade 9 students reflected on the concepts from the past unit by looking at the factual, conceptual, and debatable questions for the unit. This kind of activity is helpful in preparing for eAssessments as students will be required to think conceptually...
by Gary GOODWIN | May 21, 2020 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Humanities, Secondary History
This week, grade 11 students began exploring Cuban history in preparation for the case study on Fidel Castro for the paper 2 topic of Authoritarian States. We started by looking at Cuba in the 19the century and US involvement in aiding Cuba achieve independence from...
