by Margot SIMONDS | Feb 24, 2022 | Grade 4, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Library
A love of reading has lead to an amazing new Service as Action project by Tharaa, a 7th grade student here at ABIS. Grade 4 students have the opportunity to participate in a month long book study of the book “The Mockingbird” by Katherine Erskine. The book...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Feb 23, 2022 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9
Students have continued with their inquiry into voices from the past, which is an interdisciplinary unit with Individuals and Societies. Over the past three weeks we have identified the conventions of historical movies and applied those to the film ‘100 days’ which...
by Andres BRADSHAW | Feb 17, 2022 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9
This week the grade 9s, 10s, 11s and 12s have been using scientific ‘language’ to gather and communicate information. The grades have been using renewable and non-renewable energy sources, latent heat, ideal gases and nuclear equations, all topics using the language...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Feb 16, 2022 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
In English students are working in their poetry anthologies. They are applying their knowledge of poetic form and devices, such as rhyme, rhythm, personification, onomatopoeia and metaphor, to their own poems. They also investigated nonsense poems, haiku and...
by Michael DE MARANVILLE | Feb 9, 2022 | Grade 10, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
In our new English unit, we have spent the last three weeks reading articles about dystopian fears from the dangers of artificial intelligence to the censorship of books. We are focused on critical thinking and being able to recognize when legitimate concerns are...
by Andres BRADSHAW | Feb 9, 2022 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
The Approaches to Learning are skills that enable us all to succeed in life. The ATL skill of perseverance is defined as the ability to “demonstrate persistence and delay gratification” The grade 9’s, 10s, 11s and 12s have been using this skill this week in the...
