H Class Blog

  Quote “Manahil can’t do this, she's colour blind!!” -Desi Introduction Hi, my name is Manahil, and I’m writing this week’s blog. My preferred subjects are literature and math. I enjoy playing video games and spending time with friends.  The Rose This week, we began working on a Hip Hop assignment, where we construct a rap/poem about ourselves, a historical figure, or deconstruct an existing rap or poem. It must contain internal and end rhymes as well as have at least 15 - 20 lines. Additionally, we can take some inspiration from existing raps/poems, furthermore, we can choose to do it with a partner!  We also get to choose Band instruments for Music class now, as the Covid restrictions have been lifted! I’m excited to play wind instruments as I find them more intriguing.  This week, we started working on a Freaks and Geeks assignment where we get into groups (A Writers' Room), and develop storylines for at least three characters in Season 2. Unfortunately, there ...

  Quote “We might lose, but we lose together as friends.” - Sulaiman at Team Reading Olympics (Credits to AQ) Introduction Hello, my name’s Eric and I am writing a blog this week and also last week! My favorite subjects are gym and math. I love playing football and hanging out with my friends. We did a lot of amazing things during the last two weeks. The Rose We are getting started working on “Genius Hour” or “Passion Project”. We are given six hours of class time over three weeks to work on anything that we are passionate about or that we've always wanted to learn about. At the end, we must have something to share from our efforts! Some students are painting, others are learning to crotchet. I am coding a football game using a program called Scratch and another student is making interactive webpages about the greatest superheroes and villains. There are a lot of great ideas that we are making and I’m excited to see how they turn out! We were also learning about rapping from the f...