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...
by Geetika MEKHALA | Mar 14, 2019 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English, The Grades
Being the leader of a country is not an easy job, especially if the world around you is at war and your country has just been attacked. What information does a president need to give the command to launch atomic bombs? What moral obligations does he/she have before...
by Abby BREWER | Jan 15, 2019 | Grade 10, IGCSE, Secondary English
For our final exam text, we are finishing off our study of poetry, focusing on war and nature poems. Of course, since poetry is poetry, it’s also all about love and death. What else would you write a poem about? Or, in the parlance of today’s teens…....
by Geetika MEKHALA | Jan 10, 2019 | Grade 11, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary English
DP Language and Literature students have started a new unit on language of campaigns. We studied a few Dove campaigns and analysed why some worked while others did not. MTV Switch campaigns were used to learn and practise analysing camera angles, images, lighting,...
