by Melodee PETERS | Oct 9, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English, The Grades
Grade 9 students are working on descriptive travel writing. They started by personifying a city and then they had to transform the description into an evocative monologue performance. It is not easy to stand up in front of one’s peers to perform and some...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 18, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary English, The Grades
This term both grade 8 students and grade 9 students are analysing advertisments. Grade 9s are focusing on specifically tourism advertisements while grade 8 students select advertisements for their final analysis. On Wednesday, the 2 groups had the opportunity to...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 11, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary English, The Grades
Grade 9 students have been examining travel advertisements for their first unit of study. This week, they had the opportunity to collaborate with a partner on a chosen advertisement; thus, using each other’s strengths in analysis to complete annotations of the...
by Rachel Louise MacLugash | Aug 28, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English
In English Grade 9 students are exploring the concept: “Why Travel?”. They started to look at some of the techniques used by travel companies to entice their target audiences into paying for their dream holiday package! Students started to identify how the...
by Melodee PETERS | Jun 4, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary English, The Grades
As we end the current year for English Language and Literature in Grades 8 and 9, our focus has shifted to the areas in need of development for the students to be ready for next year. Both grades, have been working on familiarising themselves with 6 critical (active)...
by Melodee PETERS | May 15, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English, The Grades
This week the Grade 7 and Grade 8 students in English were practicing their Approaches to Learning (ATL) skills of communication and collaboration by sharing and discussing their ideas and responses to issues related to Aboriginal culture (grade 7 English) and issues...
