The Great Gatsby Website Project

Grade 10s have been working on creating a Study Guide website for the novel, 'The Great Gatsby', one of the texts for their IGCSE literature exams.

It isn't finished yet, but click here to have a look and check back often as it is updated and completed over the next week or so. It should be finished and ready in plenty of time for revision for the summer exams.

Murray Gadd

This week, Grade 10 had a visit from literacy expert Murray Gadd, who has come all the way from New Zealand to help NISS with reading and writing skills.

He used Anthony Browne's 'Zoo' to help us polish our inference skills by analysing and synthesising the text and the images to create a clear opinion about one of the characters.

We are going to put this learning into practice when analysing the short stories we are reading, as well using it to help us construct effective narratives of our own.

OUR FAVOURITE BOOKS!

We are just about to start a Unit on narrative writing.

To get us thinking about what kind of stories we like, we have begun by writing reviews of our favourite ever books.

We are going to share these on our blogs so check out what we like to read by clicking on the links on the right.