by Meghan KENNEY | Apr 12, 2018 | Grade 10, Secondary English
Grade Tens spent their last class on Shakespeare’s Macbeth creating a revision mat for the play. They collaborated on the project and discovered that some groupings of students made for quicker decision making than others! Some had great concepts, but...
by Meghan KENNEY | Apr 5, 2018 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary English
Grade 7s have enjoyed their study of suspense stories. They enjoyed curling up with the Roald Dahl classic story “Lamb to the Slaughter”, and discovered that there is a whole new side to Roald Dahl beyond James and the Giant Peach. It showed the how...
by Abby BREWER | Apr 4, 2018 | Grade 12, Secondary English
This week Grade 12 wrapped up their last text before the inevitable exams hit! Antigone, by Sophocles, proved to be a very interesting text to analyze, despite the bare-bones, “made for tv” translation that we used. Rather than contend with complex...
by Meghan KENNEY | Mar 29, 2018 | Grade 8, Secondary English
As the grade 8 students are getting ready to read The Outsiders, we read a poem and a short story on the theme of identity. “On the Sidewalk Bleeding” is a short story that explores the experience of a young man experiencing the results of his choice to...
by Abby BREWER | Mar 22, 2018 | Community and Service, Creativity, Action, Service, Secondary English
The ABIS Student Council is pleased to announce our third annual SPIRIT WEEK here at ABIS next week, March 25th – 29th! Spirit Week will be the same week as the Swim Gala, giving students a chance to show their school spirit by dressing up according to each...
by Abby BREWER | Mar 22, 2018 | Grade 12, Secondary English
G12, as part of their revision, spent time this week making connections between the three texts we read for Part 3. It seems that we’ve read three very tragic books that all end in death. That’s literature for ya! There were some great connections made...
