by Abby BREWER | Mar 21, 2019 | Secondary English
For our final text in Grade 12, we are reading Camus’ The Outsider, a brilliantly depressing book to finish off 12 years of education. If you haven’t read it and you’re looking for something to make you feel like life is meaningless, then this is the...
by Abby BREWER | Mar 21, 2019 | Creativity, Action, Service, Secondary English
The Secondary Library has a new feature: The Secondary Puzzle! So far our students have completed two puzzles, which make great brain breaks during a long day of learning and provide super teamwork opportunities. The only problem is that we’ve run out of...
by Geetika MEKHALA | Mar 21, 2019 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Secondary English
Grade 11 students are doing a great job in breaking down and analyzing poetry by Carol Ann Duffy. They first do this in groups and then discuss as a whole class. The discussions are mostly student lead, and I only step in to steer them in the right direction if...
by Geetika MEKHALA | Mar 21, 2019 | Grade 9, IGCSE, Secondary English
As we read 1984 in class, we are recognizing the most important element of a totalitarian dystopian society – control – and how this control is causing urban decay, both literally and figuratively. Students made min maps and finding examples from the class...
by Geetika MEKHALA | Mar 21, 2019 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English
Grade 7/8 language acquisition class has finished their second book reading challenge. This week, students talked about their book, most and least favorite characters and reviewed their books. Here are the books they chose:
by Geetika MEKHALA | Mar 14, 2019 | Grade 9, IGCSE, Secondary English, The Grades
Grade 9 English students have started their study of the novel “1984”. Before focusing on the novel, we learned about the socio/political context of the time and biography of Orwell that influenced his writing. As well, we learned about totalitarian...
