by Mr. MacKnight, (9 posts) on March 21st, 2013 English Romanticism William Wordsworth: Kim, Tanmay, Shawn Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Mizuki, Da Ye, Rebecca William Blake: Eric, Jun Ho, Hyeong Jin Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron: Eric, Jun Ho, Hyeong Jin John Keats: Kim, Tanmay, Shawn J. M. W. Turner: Sunniva, Denise, Janani
American Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and [...]
by Mr. MacKnight, (9 posts) on March 19th, 2013 See if you can view their Book Week video by clicking on this link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/008cbt3s0cj46k8/CINDERELLA.mp4
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by Mr. MacKnight, (9 posts) on August 15th, 2012 Dear Year . . . 11s! ;^)
Just a reminder about your coursework for IGCSE English Language. Here is the requirement from the course guide:
Assignment 1: informative, analytical and/or argumentative. Assignment 2: imaginative, descriptive and/or narrative. Assignment 3: a response to a text or texts chosen by the Centre. The text(s) should contain facts, [...]
by Mr. MacKnight, (9 posts) on April 25th, 2012 (Mid-book entry.)
Inspired by Eric Wu and provoked by the recent drama based on Charles Dickens’ fat novel, David Copperfield, I decided to re-read it for the first time in many years. I was struck by how much the England of David Copperfield resembles the China of today. Here, for example, Copperfield’s aunt comes to [...]
by Mr. MacKnight, (9 posts) on April 4th, 2012 http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2012/04/03/study-reading-for-pleasure-makes-your-brain-grow-literally/#.T3tdXCYzGi0.facebook
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by Mr. MacKnight, (9 posts) on September 5th, 2011 . . . to add your notes to the Gatsby wiki, here:
http://gatsbynotes.wikispaces.com/
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by Mr. MacKnight, (9 posts) on August 25th, 2011 Write it up before you forget everything! ;^)
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by Mr. MacKnight, (9 posts) on August 23rd, 2011 Please write two (2) separate blog posts:
1. Describe yourself as a reader. Label this post with the ‘As a Reader’ category.
2. Describe yourself as a writer. Label this post with the ‘As a Writer’ category.
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by Mr. MacKnight, (9 posts) on July 8th, 2011 I am looking forward to this year at DCS, my first here after seven years at SSIS. I hope you are, too!
I hope that most of the writing you do in the course—apart from final assessments—will be posted on this blog, giving you the chance to practice writing and try out ideas in a [...]
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Important Dates May 7: IGCSE exams begin
Famous Birthdays
Mar 30: Vincent van Gogh, 1853
Apr 7: Billie Holiday, 1915
Apr 25: Ella Fitzgerald, 1917
Apr 26: Harper Lee, 1926
Apr 26: William Shakespeare, 1564
Apr 29: Duke Ellington, 1899
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