My Personal Statement – Grade 9

  We chase some words like they are running away from us. Some words, we long to get off our tails, and run faster and faster until they are faint dots on the horizon. Perfection, excellence, brilliance. All words we chase till we can’t run anymore. Lazy, stupid,...

Writer’s Fortnight Day 6: Op – Ed : Text Type Conventions

An Op-Ed article is a completely opinion-based persuasive essay, that uses facts that back their argument. Discussions in an op-ed have a tendency to be controversial but hopefully not misleading, according to our class definition. It should be a polyvocal text,...

Writer’s Fortnight Day 2: Human Library Session 2

Special guest: When will the world listen to young people? Stories from the front line of human rights advocacy *note: this post was posted on 07/02/20 as it was copied from my post with Human Library session three to make it a separate post From this presentation, I...

Writer’s Fortnight Day Three: Human Library Session 4

Special Guest: Life as a criminal psychologist: conversations with murderers and rapists *note: this post was posted on 07/02/20 as it was copied from my post with Human Library session three to make it a separate post Appearances are so deceiving. This was probably...