Secondary English
Discovering Sohar
It's been 5 days since coming to this magical desert called Sohar. While I was expecting a vast land of sand and desert, I was pleasantly surprised to find ourselves surrounded by a farm filled with mango, banana, lime, dates, and papaya trees along with a bunch of...
Gothic Suspense Stories with Grade 7
Now that we are at the end of this inquiry into suspense and the techniques used to create it, students are finishing their performance assessment of writing a Gothic suspense story. They have learned how even grammar and paragraphs impact the impact of the stories....
Star Wars/Science Fiction Dress-Up Day!
Star Wars/Science Fiction Day The Student Council would like to announce its next event: a Science Fiction/Star Wars on Thursday, May 3th! All ABIS students are invited to dress up as a Star Wars character or any science fiction book or movie character. Rules to...
Stereotypes in The Outsiders with Grade 8
Grade 8 students have been reading The Outsiders for English class, and are investigating into stereotypes and how it leads to prejudice and discrimination. They have read case studies from real life of stereotypes and prejudice, along with theories about how they...
Farewell to our Seniors!
Today was the last day for our seniors! We sent them out in true ABIS fashion by clapping them down the stairs just before break. A bittersweet moment for us...the start of their official exam season for them! Good luck with your exams! We'll miss you around LC2!
Revision for Macbeth with Grade 10
Grade Tens spent their last class on Shakespeare's Macbeth creating a revision mat for the play. They collaborated on the project and discovered that some groupings of students made for quicker decision making than others! Some had great concepts, but weren't quite...
Relaxing with a good suspense story in Grade 7
Grade 7s have enjoyed their study of suspense stories. They enjoyed curling up with the Roald Dahl classic story "Lamb to the Slaughter", and discovered that there is a whole new side to Roald Dahl beyond James and the Giant Peach. It showed the how authors can have...
Sophocles, Socrates…it’s all Greek to me!
This week Grade 12 wrapped up their last text before the inevitable exams hit! Antigone, by Sophocles, proved to be a very interesting text to analyze, despite the bare-bones, "made for tv" translation that we used. Rather than contend with complex language, the...
Identity and Perspective with Grade 8s
As the grade 8 students are getting ready to read The Outsiders, we read a poem and a short story on the theme of identity. "On the Sidewalk Bleeding" is a short story that explores the experience of a young man experiencing the results of his choice to belong to a...
Spirit Week!
The ABIS Student Council is pleased to announce our third annual SPIRIT WEEK here at ABIS next week, March 25th - 29th! Spirit Week will be the same week as the Swim Gala, giving students a chance to show their school spirit by dressing up according to each day’s...
Connecting Antigone, The Crucible and The Thief and the Dogs
G12, as part of their revision, spent time this week making connections between the three texts we read for Part 3. It seems that we've read three very tragic books that all end in death. That's literature for ya! There were some great connections made about themes...
Living the LitFest Dream!
We had a blast at the Emirates LitFest in Dubai this past weekend! Between awesome sessions with new authors, free books from Dubai Post, rubbing elbows with authors during signings, and a swanky hotel, well, it's hard to have a bad time here. We all found some neat...
LitFest This Weekend!
It's time for LitFest! Ms. Brewer, Ms. Larsen, and 7 students from grades 6 to 10 are heading to Dubai for the weekend to soak up the literature at the 10th annual Emirates Literature Festival! We're very excited to be going, so watch this space for updates!
Performing in DP English!
This week the grade 12 students had the opportunity to try their hands at performing scenes from Antigone, the final play we're reading for Part 3 of the course. It was very interesting to see how the students interpreted their characters and really got into role. In...
TOK Guests – Gone with the Wind
Grade 11 Theory of Knowledge students have begun inviting guests to visit our class so they can talk TOK. This week Christine, invited Ms. Kenney to share how the classic 1939 movie "Gone with the Wind" influenced her views of the American South and slavery when she...
Suspense in Dracula
After reading the dramatic adaptation of Dracula, the students have developed their appreciation of how suspense is created. They practiced with another short story, and are developing both comprehension skills and analytical ones. They are moving towards creating...
Fair is foul and foul is fair with Grade 10
Grade 10 students are exploring the intersection of fate, ambition, and the noble Macbeth as they have begun the classic Shakespeare play. They are already enjoying language such as "Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, which smok'd with bloody execution."...
Spending Time in Castle Dracula
Grade 7 students are reading a dramatic adaptation of Dracula in order to learn suspense writing techniques, as well as read a classic. They are enjoying the chance to use their dramatic reading abilities, as well as developing their suspense writing techniques.
Sorting out Paper 2
Grade 12s had a chance to look at some of the weird Paper 2 questions they might get on their upcoming exams by doing a categorizing practice in class. After reading each question, they had to decide on the category as a way of helping to guide their annotations as...
Ender’s Game with the Grade 8
Grade 8 English have been reading the book Ender's Game as part of a unit, where they explore how Science Fiction set in the future allows them to investigate the ethical issues of today. With themes such has ethics during wartime, bullying, responsibility and power,...