Activity provided by Layla Barroca
Join a Cycle Three (Elementary) class as they perfect their skills as readers who can respond to a literary text from a variety of roles that readers use to understand a text.
Activity provided by Janice Wong
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Activity provided by Lise Kuhn
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Activity provided by Kathy Panek
With the help of academic conversation cards and bookmarks, students engage in group discussions about their books, working together to apply different reading strategies when encountering challenging passages.
Activity provided by Patricia Morissette, Amber Coones
This unit addresses the issue of mental health, specifically depression and anxiety, through the use of film and text. Students will develop their reading, talk, and production skills through a variety of activities and projects.
Activity provided by Jennifer Clark
The school bought a Silver Birch membership so that students could participate and select an award winner over the course of the project. Unit activities included making a book trailer, reading and writing book reviews, author visits, and voting for a favourite book among those read during the program.
Activity provided by Kaylie Bernert
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Activity provided by Kerry Ann King
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Activity provided by Tiffany Dickie
This project deals with making historical connections between real life experiences, nonfiction and fiction. Through the study of various written and visual texts, and through an exploration of stories from the Holocaust and the American civil rights movement, students are invited to think critically about the responsibilities they have to uphold not only their own… Read More »Rights and Responsibilities: Exploring Stories from the Holocaust and the American Civil Rights Movement
Activity provided by Voula Tsagaroulis
This unit aims to link literature from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary literature around the theme of racial consciousness. The unit features a short story by Langston Hughes, which sets the stage for a poetry study that ultimately empowers students to produce multiple poems inspired by what they have studied.
