by Andrew JOHNSON | Dec 2, 2021 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English
Students have been continuing their studies of bias and propaganda by reading ‘Animal Farm.’ We have seen how the ideals of the revolution have been twisted to serve the purposes of the pigs. We are investigating how the pigs used propaganda in order to keep...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Nov 10, 2021 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English
Grade 9 completed their first unit on Travel by creating their own blogs or vlogs, using the appropriate techniques. They have just started the second unit in which they are investigating bias and propaganda. Students have defined these two words and have...
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...
