by Liz JURKOWISKI | May 4, 2017 | Grade 9, Secondary History, The Grades
The G9 students had the chance to critically assess their own work this week in history class. After taking a quiz on Germany during the Weimar Republic, the students were asked to take a second look at it the next day… And to mark it! This tough task...
by Meghan KENNEY | May 4, 2017 | Grade 8, Secondary History
As we have been studying revolutions in the grade 8 classroom, we wanted to look at the difficulties of being a politician. So the class divided into different French political parties from the time of the revolution, and had to draft a constitution to represent their...
by Todd DAVIS | May 4, 2017 | Grade 9, Humanities, Secondary History, The Grades
Solving complex global issues calls for us to listen to a wide-range of perspectives so we can pull the pieces together, make connections and extensions to our thinking, and begin identifying possible scenarios and courses of action. To that end, G9 students have been...
by Meghan KENNEY | Apr 26, 2017 | Grade 8, Secondary History, Secondary Team Leader
Grade 8s have been practicing a style of taking notes called “sketchnoting”, which means using a combination of text and images to record concepts and ideas. This method requires students to interact with the information much more deeply, as they make...
by Todd DAVIS | Apr 13, 2017 | Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9, Humanities, Secondary History, Secondary Team Leader, Secondary ToK, The Grades
Ever wonder why dancers do what they do? or What message could lie beneath the surface of a dance? or How a dance became the way it is? These questions and more were explored by our guest speaker, author and professor, Stacey Prickett PhD from Roehampton University in...
by Liz JURKOWISKI | Apr 13, 2017 | Grade 10, Secondary History, The Grades
This week students in Grade 10 started to research Germany between the world wars for their IGCSE History Depth Study assignment. They are learning how to find reliable and valuable sources, how to correctly quote and refer to them when writing, and how to cite...
