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...
by newuser | Apr 10, 2014 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary English
All those literary essays in the SLS lead up to this. The Higher Level English Lang & Lit students have a 800-1000 word essay to complete on The Road. The process has not changed, the students are just far more independent. They plan, organize and compose on their...
by Jillian KEARNEY | Apr 3, 2014 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary English
The Gr. 9 class is currently filming a newscast covering the key events and characters of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. The group has given Claire artistic license and during his make-up session Jed was seriously beginning to regret letting her lead the way. He...
