Secondary English
Unit transition
In English Grade 8 students finished their unit on fitting in by creating a poster. They analysed a character from ‘The Outsiders’ and compared it to their own personality. This term we have started studying newspapers; inquiring about why they exist and the impact...
Grade 9 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...
Grade 9 English Language and Literature
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...
Grade 8 English, Individuals and Societies
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...
Grade 9 Language and Literature
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...
Grade 12 DP English A
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...
Critical thinking and creative writing in grade 9
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...
Grade 12 feeling the pressure
It was an intense week with some major deadlines for our grade 12 students. Students worked hard to meet their EE deadline (4000 word essay) and their English essay deadline. Additionally, we also reviewed the requirements of paper 1 from last year and learned some...
Grade 9 MYP English
After weeks of researching background/contextual information, presenting to classmates and learning some drama related literary terms, this week we started reading the play. It definitely is an interesting experience to read our separate parts from each of our homes...
Some heavy themes in DP. English
What are the consequences of war? How far have women progressed in their fight for equality with men? What role does politics play in religion? To what extent does religion shape an individual? These are some interesting discussions that grade 12 DP English students...
Sprucing up those presentation skills
Prior to starting our drama, "All My Sons" by Arthur Miller, grade 9 students spent the week researching some contextual information. For this, we focused on sprucing up our ATL skill of research and presentation. We reviewed how to choose appropriate websites, how to...
Exciting first week!
What an exciting week it has been! After weeks of preparation it was nice to finally see our students and interact with them face to face. In MYP English classes we are still focused on learning how to send formal emails to our teachers. Also, we played vocabulary...
Exciting year ahead in English
How did I spend my summer, you ask? I have been reading books, watching movies, watching controversial news and debates, watching interesting advertisements, traveling in Oman and taking pictures. And guess what? All of those were part of preparing for the new...
Grade 9 English language acquisition
We jumped into an exciting new unit: "Men vs. Women - is one gender better than the other?". As one can imagine, this topic elicited passionate discussions. We started by discussing what feminism is and what it isn't. I was impressed with their maturity and...
English classes this week
It was a short but sweet week where we enjoyed getting to know how each of us spent the winter break. Experiences ranged from falling off the ski slopes in Austria to chillaxing at home in Sohar. Grade 12 DP students are jogging their memory on Persepolis to make...
House Competition hots up!
Our students were recently surveyed as to what sort of House Competitions they would like to see put on and football was a very popular option! As a result, today saw the first round of an inter-House mini football tournament, organized by Olly Cooper and Orjuwan in...
Grade 12 DP English Language and Literature
Persepolis is a graphic novel by Mariane Satrapi, that depicts her childhood and adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. We are studying the art form of graphic novels and understanding the novel in its cultural and historical context. Having...
Grade 7/8 Language Acquisition
Students finished their presentations on their explorers. Later, we had heated debate in order to determine the two strongest learner profiles for being a explorer. In the weeks coming up, we are focusing reading comprehension strategies.
Grade 11 DP English
Students continued acting/reading Act 2 of The Crucible. Also, we reviewed and practiced annotation and analytic writing.
Grade 9 English Language Acquisition
What shapes our identity? How do context and points of view influence and change our identity? These are some inquiry questions we are exploring as we read our novel 'Night', a memoir of a holocaust survivor. After having read the first chapter, and in preparation to...