Calling All Storytellers: Tall-Tale-Tellin’ Competition 2025–2026
Do you enjoy telling stories, performing for an audience, or taking a familiar tale and giving it a completely new
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Author: Jacob Ingram
Learning to Read Documentaries Ethically: DP1 Students Audit The 13th
DP1 English A: Language and Literature students completed an Ethical Audit of Ava DuVernay’s The 13th, analyzing how documentary choices shape authority, fairness, and audience response.
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AP Language and Composition: How to Build a Strong Synthesis Essay
The AP Lang synthesis essay is not a summary task. Learn how to read the source packet as a conversation, build a defensible thesis, and use evidence to support your own argument.
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AP Lang Students Turn Argument Errors into Teaching Tools
AP Language and Composition students turned common argument mistakes into a teaching tool by creating videos on weak claims, poor evidence, logical fallacies, and disorganized reasoning.
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Celebrating Academic Excellence: Semester 1 Honor Roll (2025–2026)
A community win We’re proud to recognize students who model what learning looks like at EISB: steady preparation, academic honesty,
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Discover Canada Essay Contest: Why You Should Enter (and How to Win)
If you’re 15–18 and even a little Canada-curious, this is a great target for your winter writing goals. The Discover
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Parable of the Sower: Reading Lauren’s Diary like a Fact-Checker
We’re still in our Fake News unit—so we’re reading Parable of the Sower as a field manual for truth-seeking. Lauren’s
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AP Lang Argument Essay: How to Build a Strong Case (Without the Drama)
The argument essay rewards one thing above all: a reader who feels guided by a mind that knows what it
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Make Visual Texts Your Strength for Paper 1
Paper 1 in DP Language & Literature is a guided analysis of previously unseen non-literary texts. At SL you choose
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From Feedback to Action
Report comments land with the best intentions and the vaguest instructions. Deepen analysis. Tighten structure. Use evidence precisely. You read
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