by newuser | Jan 22, 2013 | Grade 10, Secondary English
The grade 10 students each shared five objects which best represented their chosen character from Aldous Huxley’s utopian novel Brave New World. Soma pills appeared to be a common symbol, a motif, in our presentations. The World State’s strategies to avoid...
by newuser | Jan 9, 2013 | Secondary English
Planning is vital to writing effective and coherent texts. Using graphic organizers helps some students organize their thoughts into the structure required by specific text types. Outlines have taken on new forms, for example the attached photo is of the inverted...
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...
