{"id":333191,"date":"2026-10-01T15:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=333191"},"modified":"2026-09-30T14:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:47:21","slug":"g9-english-students-teach-their-g8-peers-service-as-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2026\/10\/01\/g9-english-students-teach-their-g8-peers-service-as-action\/","title":{"rendered":"G9 English Students Teach Their G8 Peers: Service as Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Grade 9 students worked with their Grade 8 peers in an English Language and Literature Service as Action project. Grade 9s taught their peers a series of lessons on rhetorical devices used in persuasive advertisements and analytical writing structures that will be used in essays written by Grade 8s. This student-centered learning activity produced excellent results that demonstrate the power of learning through service and action.<\/p>\n<div>The activities led by the Grade 9 students focused on (1) writing strong introduction paragraphs to analytical essays that contain engaging hooks, important context, and focused thesis statements; and (2) writing PEAL-structured body paragraphs. These techniques and structures support learning across the curriculum and provide students tools that support higher-order thinking and communication.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/09\/IMG_0177-scaled.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-333192 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/09\/IMG_0177-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/09\/IMG_0206-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-333193 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/09\/IMG_0206-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Grade 9 students worked with their Grade 8 peers in an English Language and Literature Service as Action project. Grade 9s taught their peers a series of lessons on rhetorical devices used in persuasive advertisements and analytical writing structures that will be used in essays written by Grade 8s. This student-centered learning activity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,31,32,25,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myp","category-grade-8","category-grade-9","category-secondary-english","category-grades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}