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Archives for January, 2009

Grade 7 ‘House on Mango Street’, showing themes using animoto

Step 1. Choose a Chapter that you like. Try to find one that you think you understand the deeper meaning. Step 2 Choose three very short quotes that you think represent important ideas in this chapter. Individually find images that you think show important ideas and themes about this chapter. Step 3 Finding images Use [...]

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Grade 7 ‘House on Mango Street’, showing themes using animoto

Step 1. Choose a Chapter that you like. Try to find one that you think you understand the deeper meaning. Step 2 Choose three very short quotes that you think represent important ideas in this chapter. Individually find images that you think show important ideas and themes about this chapter. Step 3 Finding images Use [...]

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Grade 6 Comic mythology project (getting started)

Grade 6 students, You are going to be retelling a famous myth using a comic strip style. We have read some myths and now we are going to do some research on comic strips. Stage one. What do we want to know? 1. Advice on drawing cartoons 2. Advice on using captions and speech bubbles [...]

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MS English blogs update

Last week there was a lot of activity on the YIS MS English student blogs as students selected their best posts from the first semester to be assessed. AE in 7A and JB were both kind enough to post some advice about how to write a good blog entry. I also hope that the assessment [...]

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