by Andrew JOHNSON | Oct 20, 2021 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, Secondary English
In both English and Individuals and Societies we have completed the first units. As a summative task in English, students wrote an essay analysing the techniques and success of an advert. In Individuals and Societies, students worked in small groups to present a...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Oct 14, 2021 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English
During the last three weeks we have continued our investigation into travel writing. Students looked at examples of travel writing from books, for newspapers and blogs. Then they identified common techniques and differences between the text types. In addition they...
by Geetika MEKHALA | Jan 7, 2021 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Secondary English
Our English A students did not waste any time diving into the final four months of their IB journey. We started the classes with mock individual oral (IO) assessments. Students reflected on these assessment to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Using the...
by Geetika MEKHALA | Dec 3, 2020 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English
Grade 9 has been engaged in an interdisciplinary unit with I&S for the past few weeks. While they get the factual information about various genocides around the world in their history class, in English, we read creative pieces written on these subjects and also...
by Geetika MEKHALA | Oct 15, 2020 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Secondary English
It was an intense week with some major deadlines for our grade 12 students. Students worked hard to meet their EE deadline (4000 word essay) and their English essay deadline. Additionally, we also reviewed the requirements of paper 1 from last year and learned some...
by Geetika MEKHALA | Sep 24, 2020 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English
After weeks of researching background/contextual information, presenting to classmates and learning some drama related literary terms, this week we started reading the play. It definitely is an interesting experience to read our separate parts from each of our homes...
