Great Speeches from Grade 11!

Grade 11 English B students showed off their speaking skills this week by delivering a speech that they wrote in connection with our topic of Advertising. Ranging from a TV exective, who tried to convince us to watch more TV, to a former ad executive, who was warning...

Target Audience in Grade 11

In grade 11 this week, we focused in on Target Audience, looking at how we can best identify the “TA” in advertisements. There was no better place to start than by looking at the incredibly creative Old Spice “man your man could smell like”...

An Interactive Oral Activity Under Our Belts!

The 11th grade English B class today jumped into role to participate in their first IOA, during which they discussed the nuisance off popups and the effects of this annoying advertising on its audience. There was some pretty lively debate that took place and all three...

Act 1 Review!

After finishing Act 1, the 10th grade students had a chance to use a learning grid to review the play of An Inspector Calls! Students had to use the dice we borrowed from the Math department to select a row and a column each, then explain the significance of the image...

What happens if an inspector calls…?

We started reading our first dramatic text in grade 10 English class last week: An Inspector Calls, by J. B. Priestley. Although we’ve not gotten very far yet – quite a bit of context is required to understand the play – we already have...

Crafting sentences in 11th grade

After an intense two weeks of writing workshop, the English B students were ready to use the various sentence types we discussed. A hard-working group, they diligently arranged and rearranged the clauses to make proper sentences. They wrote an interesting story about...