by Abby BREWER | May 19, 2016 | Secondary English
Grade 10s had a bit of any easy week this week with no IGCSE exams scheduled besides Arabic, so it seemed only fitting to give them something to work on! To help them revise for their first English Literature exam next week, they created poetry revision videos on...
by Meghan KENNEY | Apr 21, 2016 | Grade 9, Secondary English
Grade 9 English students are developing their arguing skills. This is not to say that they are fighting in class, but rather that they are learning the elements of an argument, of taking a position and defending it. We’ve investigated into the very current topic...
by Abby BREWER | Apr 14, 2016 | Secondary English
This week the Grade 12 English A class finished up The Crucible by taking all the “big ideas” from the play and mapping them out in a very interconnected graphic organizer! It was great to see them synthesizing and categorizing all of the information...
by Abby BREWER | Mar 24, 2016 | Secondary English
To help grasp the difference between reading a play and performing a play, the 10th graders took a turn showing off their theatrical skills this week. They worked through Henry’s famous “St. Crispin’s Day” speech, just before the battle of...
by Meghan KENNEY | Mar 23, 2016 | Grade 9, Secondary English
We just did an activity in Grade 9 English where students were asked to write a dialogue between a mother and a son about spending time in the virtual world. When they performed the dialogues, we discovered that they all ended up creating an argument. This has led to...
by Abby BREWER | Feb 25, 2016 | Secondary English
The English A 11th graders got to explore how power is created through a drama activity last week. A table, four chairs and a water bottle were placed in the space. Each student had a chance to enter the space and give one chair more power than anything else. After...
