by webtester | Mar 27, 2014 | Grade 10, Secondary History
With Grade 10 zooming towards the IGCSE exams in May, we have been spending some time discussing effective revision techniques. If our students are studying at least two hours per night (as we’ve asked them to), we want to ensure that they are using the best...
by webtester | Mar 13, 2014 | Secondary History
With all the discussion this week in the news, on Facebook, and around the school about the missing Malaysian Airlines flight off the coast of Thailand, I thought I’d share this article about ten of the most famed missing airplanes in history. Click here. To me,...
by webtester | Feb 27, 2014 | Secondary History
Somewhere between Ibri and Wadi Damm…
by webtester | Feb 19, 2014 | Grade 8, Secondary History
Wrapping up an entertaining unit on propaganda, the students in grade 8 made a presentation aimed at getting students to vote them school council president in a fictional election. Students were required to create two posters and a video, and to give a speech. All or...
by webtester | Feb 13, 2014 | Grade 9, Secondary History
Following up on an earlier post in this spot, the Grade 9 students are learning about the causes of the First World War. This is an exciting, rather controversial unit, because pinning down the exact cause of this “seminal catastrophe” is very difficult...
by webtester | Feb 5, 2014 | Grade 7, Secondary History
This week in History class, grade 7 began reading Crispin. This novel of historical fiction by the renowned teen author Avi is about a boy living in medieval times in England. It is an outstanding portrait of life in the Middle Ages, told from the point of view of a...
