by Wayne Hampton | Dec 19, 2012 | Front Page, Grade 10, Secondary English, Secondary History, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science, Secondary Team Leader
Dear parents, Our Secondary students were delighted to have an article on their beach clean up featured in the ‘Times of Oman’ on December 16. Their write up of the project was printed exactly as they wrote it, which was very encouraging for them. On Monday we had a...
by newuser | Dec 19, 2012 | Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Secondary English
In Book Club, we finished an activity discussing proverbs from various cultures. These sayings offer wisdom about human nature and the ways of the world and can be very handy in essays. A hedge between keeps friendships green. France If you step on one ant, the others...
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...
