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...
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...
