by newuser | Dec 12, 2012 | Grade 9, Secondary English
The Gr. 9 class was haunted this week by Billie Holiday’s musical rendition of Aber Meeropol’s poem Strange Fruit. We will be analyzing the literary techniques used in this poem, a short story by Lawrence Dunbar and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I...
by newuser | Dec 12, 2012 | Grade 7, Secondary English
Gr. 7 students should be knee-deep in some futuristic world run by some tyrannical dictatorship. Most have chosen to follow Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games. Lois Lowry’s The Giver and John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids are also...
by newuser | Dec 12, 2012 | Grade 8, Secondary English
In Gr. 8 we have been reading Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and comparing our rendition of each scene to Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 movie and Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 modern adaptation. While Zeffireli’s version is respectful of the Elizabethan...
by newuser | Dec 12, 2012 | Grade 10, Secondary English
It’s George Orwell’s 1984 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and The Matrix rolled into one. It’s an amazing film and a perfect transition to dystopian literature for the Gr. 10 class who start Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World next...
by newuser | Dec 5, 2012 | Grade 6, Grade 7, Secondary English
No, this isn’t the eighth wonder of the world; it’s the structure to follow for news articles. Both Grade 6 and 7 classes will be creating news publications in the very near future and are currently focusing on those front page texts which give you what...
by newuser | Dec 5, 2012 | Grade 9, Secondary English
Denzel Washington’s 2007 film bridges the gap in American history between Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks for the Grade 9 class. Our current unit is looking at texts that touch on various events in the Civil Rights Movement with a focus on how the words of a few...
