by Meghan KENNEY | Sep 21, 2017 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary English
One of the book week activities this week was a collaborative story written together with the entire secondary. Each class was responsible for a different part, and by the time grade 7 received the story it was clearly a suspense tale. Grade sevens quickly revealed...
by Meghan KENNEY | Sep 14, 2017 | Secondary English
Secondary got a head start with book week this Thursday, as our morning advisory time was devoted to some creative writing. Student’s created 6-word memoirs, two-sentence mysteries, poems, and riddles and jokes to create a language rich environment. This...
by Meghan KENNEY | Sep 14, 2017 | Grade 10, Secondary English
Part of IGCSE English literature is the study of poems about family. To help find the deeper meaning in the poem “Coming Home”, students pulled out powerful word and images to look for patterns and themes. They discussed how particular words shift the tone...
by Abby BREWER | Sep 7, 2017 | Grade 11, Secondary English
As we work our way through Othello, we are getting to know the characters better, including the baddies, like Iago. Strange as it may seem, our sympathy and appreciation for Iago are growing. Today we worked through the start of Act III, which is the beginning of the...
by Abby BREWER | Aug 30, 2017 | Grade 9, Secondary English
In grade 9 we’ve started the year with a short story unit. After doing a group story, we’ve been going through some of the elements of narrative stories. Today, we looked at famous first lines. What makes a story start off with a bang? We collected our...
by Abby BREWER | Aug 24, 2017 | Community and Service, Secondary English
We had a very energetic start to the 2017/2018 school year in our Advisory program! Our first day was filled with reminders about our Essential Agreements and the Dress Code, the distribution of supplies, and our annual Secondary ABIS Olympics. Monday and Wednesday...
