by Wayne Hampton | Jun 5, 2014 | Secondary English
Well, there hasn’t been much English going on this week – except the Grade 7 Dystopia magazine project – as the rest of the grades had exams. It wouldn’t be particularly interested to talk about tests and scores – other than the fact that...
by Wayne Hampton | May 22, 2014 | Secondary English
Grade 7 English and History are currently teaming up. Grade 7 are completing a unit called ‘Writer’s Workshop’ in English and have been focusing on making their writing more controlled and sophisticated. To consolidate their learning, and put their...
by Wayne Hampton | May 15, 2014 | Secondary English
Grade 7 are currently reading ‘The Hunger Games’, a popular dystopian novel by Suzanne Collins. As they are also doing a ‘Writer’s Workshop’, we decided to take a close look at how Collins writes in terms of sentence types and structure,...
by Wayne Hampton | May 8, 2014 | Secondary English
All Grade 11 IB Diploma students are currently studying ‘Mass Communication’, guided by the question: ‘how does the media use propaganda to sway public opinion? It has been an enjoyable series of lessons for me, so far, to hear their opinions and...
by Wayne Hampton | Apr 30, 2014 | Secondary English
Grade 7 (and soon Grade 8) students have just started a special ‘writer’s workshop’ which unsurprisingly focuses on developing writing skills. The tried and tested unit goes back to the basics of writing and then evolves student writing at an...
by Wayne Hampton | Apr 16, 2014 | Secondary English
Grade 7 students are currently delivering their presentations on ‘bonded child labour’, which is a big problem in certain parts of the world. Bonded child labour occurs when a family agrees to their child working for a creditor to repay a debt. What...
