It’s been brilliant over the last 3 weeks to receive daily updates and work from Year 9 in both XP and XP East. It is a personal highlight of the week / day when an email arrives with titles such as ‘here is my extension task’ or ‘these are the notes I made’ .
During their time at home students have been immersing themselves into our new expedition entitled ‘Empire’ using the the google site which can be found here https://sites.google.com/xpeast.org/c24-yr9-empire/home
Our guiding question for this expedition will be ‘Do we need structure to make society stable?’
Our anchor text is Animal Farm and we will explore the content through one of our three case studies. The other two have yet to be revealed to students…
In this post I’ve tried to capture a snapshot of the great work we have received.
Students have looked at Russia both in its past and present formation. Explored the different ideologies behind Socialism, Communism and Capitalism and how these ideologies were part of the Cold War. Analysed historical sources and the poem Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes.
A special mention must go out to Theone for creating a facebook profile on Ted Hughes in the first person, Milo who carried out some detailed research and to Noah and Maclaren who thought about the finer details and decided whether they would have befriended him and gave him a specific number of friends.
I hope the slides give a sense of how hard students have been working from home.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kcHMBKEB8o8PBCBfJEjqioyfxkwr7dNB7p0cy-GE3Eo/edit?usp=sharing