by Andrew CLARKE | Apr 16, 2015 | Grade 10, Secondary English
As the exam time draws closer, our 10th and 12th graders have been feeling the pressure. To help them prepare, we have been doing lots of review work in English class. Most recently, the 10th graders reviewed the novel Fasting, Feasting, which we read at the start of...
by Andrew CLARKE | Mar 26, 2015 | Grade 10, Secondary English
As the old adage goes, the class that summarizes together does well on the exams together. Isn’t that right? It was this week, when the 10th graders used their collective brain power to help revise some key questions for the upcoming English Language exam. It is...
by Andrew CLARKE | Mar 12, 2015 | Grade 10, Secondary English
Who knew a review could be so exciting!? We began our revision of The Importance of Being Earnest in 10th grade this week with a mindmap of everything the students considered significant from the play. When it came time to share and explain, we witnessed an epic...
by Andrew CLARKE | Feb 26, 2015 | Grade 9, Secondary English, Uncategorized
Today in class grade 9 delivered presentations about motifs they had selected to analyze from the text Spies. After keeping track of the motifs throughout our reading of the text, they had enough information to consider how the motifs had changed and their ultimate...
by Andrew CLARKE | Feb 5, 2015 | Grade 9, Secondary English
With great joy – that was almost taken from us with the power outage – we finally finished Spies!!! 9th grade did an excellent job with this text, even following my homework instructions to “not read anything” so we could finish the final...
by Andrew CLARKE | Jan 29, 2015 | Grade 9, Secondary English
Today Grade 9 completed a “push/pull” activity for the book Spies. Two students posed as Stephen, our main character, who had to decide to stay loyal to or betray each of the other characters, whose arguments for and against loyalty and betrayal were...
