by Mina ZNAIDI | Jan 14, 2016 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary History
Grade 7 students designed posters advertising car boot sales to make pocket money. After they learnt all vocabulary relating to the topic, they worked in groups collaboratively to produce posters, which they presented to the rest of the class....
by Dan KEARNEY | Jan 13, 2016 | Grade 10, Secondary History
Further to Grade 10 revision for mock exams, students this week created Facebook conversations between historical characters–namely, the leaders of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Students dissected the leaders’ motives and goals and then created a...
by Todd DAVIS | Jan 7, 2016 | Grade 9, Secondary History, The Grades, Uncategorized
World peace anyone?? Awareness and appreciation of the wide variety of belief systems present in the world is taking an enormous step towards world peace. That is why this unit on belief systems is a key component along our Global Perspectives journey. During...
by Dan KEARNEY | Jan 7, 2016 | Grade 10, Secondary History, The Grades
Grade 10 revised the causes of the First World War this week through a linking activity. Their task was to create paper ‘links’ that detailed the causes and effects of the war–people, places, events–and then connect those links to show the...
by Dan KEARNEY | Dec 10, 2015 | Grade 10, Secondary History
This week in History class Grade 10 began reviewing the dreaded Paper 2. This exam is the sources-based exam; students are required to look at primary and secondary sources (in this year’s case, about European imperialism) and analyze those sources in six...
by Dan KEARNEY | Nov 30, 2015 | Grade 10, Secondary History
An essential skill in History–indeed, it’s one of the assessment objectives on the IGCSE syllabus–is explanation. Closely examining History means analyzing it, not just listing dates and names. Grade 10 took some time this week to revise analysis...
