by Melodee PETERS | Oct 23, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English
Grade 9 students have now produced a text of their choice (Criterion C) to complete the Travel Writing Unit. Five students challenged themselves to perform monologues, which they did for their class. All text choices were new to them, so it was great to see students...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 9, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English, The Grades
As you all know, Grade 8 students analysed print advertisements for the first half of this term. Now, they are creating their own print advertisement or commercial for a brand and product of their choice. This requires them to do research into the ethos of the brand...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 9, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English, The Grades
Grade 9 students are working on descriptive travel writing. They started by personifying a city and then they had to transform the description into an evocative monologue performance. It is not easy to stand up in front of one’s peers to perform and some...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 18, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Secondary English, The Grades
This term both grade 8 students and grade 9 students are analysing advertisments. Grade 9s are focusing on specifically tourism advertisements while grade 8 students select advertisements for their final analysis. On Wednesday, the 2 groups had the opportunity to...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 11, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary English, The Grades
Grade 9 students have been examining travel advertisements for their first unit of study. This week, they had the opportunity to collaborate with a partner on a chosen advertisement; thus, using each other’s strengths in analysis to complete annotations of the...
by Rachel Louise MacLugash | Aug 28, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English
In English Grade 9 students are exploring the concept: “Why Travel?”. They started to look at some of the techniques used by travel companies to entice their target audiences into paying for their dream holiday package! Students started to identify how the...
