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...
by Andrew CLARKE | Jan 29, 2015 | Grade 11, Secondary English
As part of a discussion about Language and Power, the 11th grade English class played “The Great Game of Power,” a game created by Augusto Boal for his “Theater of the Oppressed.” The game forces students to examine ways in which power can be...
by Maram Al Nairat | Jan 23, 2015 | Creativity, Action, Service, Dance, Music, Secondary Dance, Secondary English, Secondary Music, The Grades
Last weekend some members of the decoration committee and other volunteers showed up at school on Saturday to paint the display boards black! This will help to create a great atmosphere in the gym (and hopefully make it seem like you aren’t even in the gym!) on...
by Andrew CLARKE | Jan 15, 2015 | Grade 10, Secondary English
As Grade 10 nears the end of their IGCSE course, we’ve returned to studying poetry, the last “set text” to prepare for the exam. Poetry is a funny thing. It’s received a pretty bad reputation (I take the blame on behalf of English teachers...
by Andrew CLARKE | Jan 8, 2015 | Grade 12, Secondary English
In grade 12 English today we discussed Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible , focusing on what makes it a tragedy. After reading an essay by Miller, “Tragedy and the Common Man,” in which he posits that tragedy is a truer form of optimism than comedy,...
