How to Ace Your Next Novel Study Exam: 5 Absolute Musts
These tips, while excruciatingly straight-forward, are stunningly absent from most students’ exam writing handbag. So here they are, the five absolute musts for your novel study exam!
Diploma Exam Critical/Analytical Response Preparation
English 30-1 students will wrestle with this particularly crafty animal during their Diploma exam, and let me tell you, it is much different than any personal response question will ask.
Deciphering the Codex: A Guide to Reading Shakespeare
Shakespeare is universally loathed by high school students as much as he is universally revered by scholars, poets, and writers.. Check out this comprehensive guide to reading Shakespeare like a pro.
Summer School: The Do’s and Don’ts
A very few of you are going to a very loathed and reviled place for one month where two words are uttered always in utter chagrin: Summer school.
Summer Reading: The Things You Know You Should Do But Don’t
By: Phillip Mattie The summer is here, with all its blue skies, sunshine, beaches, and, most importantly, free time. Myself,
How to Read Drama like a Pro
By: Phillip Mattie A lot of students are unfamiliar with what exactly “Drama,” with a capital D, is. Most times,
Film as a Dramatic Medium
By: Phillip Mattie Today, we are used to seeing Comic Book Movies, where super heroes parade across the screen in
Short Fiction Tips: Character Archetypes
By: Phillip Mattie It’s English 30. You are struggling to break down a character, wondering what motivates him or her.
Ignorance and Education, Yin and Yang
By: Phillip Mattie We are all born with brains that have yet to be filled with knowledge and ideas, have
English for the ESL Student
By: Phillip Mattie Canada has become so much more than a bilingual, French/English country, so much so that we have