by Melodee PETERS | Feb 6, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary English, The Grades
Grade 7 students are in the middle of their poetry unit in which they study different forms of poetry and the write their own poetry in that form. Here they are learning about cinquains from Children’s Poet Laureate online: After that they had another online...
by Melodee PETERS | Jan 16, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary English, The Grades
This first week back the Grade 7 students started their Poetry Unit. The focus is on learning about the various forms of poetry and the styles in which poets express their points of view and feelings. As part of their discovery, the students worked on Acrostic poems...
by Melodee PETERS | Nov 14, 2024 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English, The Grades
The Grade 9 students are in their second week of the new unit and have explored perspectives of courage. This week, they drafted interviews of characters involved in the first spacewalk in history and the courage involved in the event. They read their interviews with...
by Melodee PETERS | Nov 14, 2024 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English, The Grades
The grade 8s are heading towards the end of their current unit based on the novel, “The Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton. Last week, 2 of their peers engaged them in learning activities about the conflicts in the novel. The activity they particularly enjoyed was...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 24, 2024 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary English, The Grades
Thursday classes for English are student-led. This Thursday, Luis designed a debate for his peers on the ethics and perspectives of a murder that occurred in the text they are reading in class. It was interesting listening to opposing perspectives about the reasons...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 23, 2024 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary English, The Grades
Grade 7 students, this week, started practicing critical reading strategies (aka Active Reading Strategies) as the lead-in for their second unit in English. In teams, they discussed the strategies they used when reading the exposition of a Dick King-Smith novel. The...
