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Characters from TV and Silver Screen -
March 10, 2010
There were many more wonderful costumes
on display on Tuesday, March 9, the second day of our annual
Spirit Week. The girls had tonnes of fun guessing the characters
the costumes of the students - and teachers - represented.
The whole school also came together at lunchtime
for the second in a series of Spirit Week activities planned
by the grade 12s. Using the props provided to them by the
grade 12 girls, each class created a quick trailer for an
imaginary movie and acted it out for the rest of our community.
The results were invariably creative - and hilarious!
Here are a few pictures of the great costumes
we saw yesterday:
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Welcome to Hollywood - March 9, 2010
Monday, March 8, marked the first day of
our 2010 Spirit Week, organized and run by our grade 12 class.
The theme for this year's event is Hollywood; each day of
the week has its own mini-theme within this larger theme,
providing inspiration for costumes and activities for that
day.
On Monday, the theme of the day was the
2010 Oscars - the films, the characters, the actors and the
actresses. Our girls got really creative with this theme,
and there were lots of amazing costumes.
Check out the pictures from Monday's festivities,
and stay tuned throughout the week for more!
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A Cornucopia of Careers - March 4, 2010
On Wednesday, March 3, 20 presenters visited
Linden to give our girls a taste of some of the myriad careers
they could pursue at our annual Career Day.
The careers represented were as varied as
the interests of Linden students, ranging from biomedical
engineer to TV producer to Greenpeace activist. Here are just
a few of the things our students got up to as Career Day unfolded:
- Writing articles and taking photos for a mock newspaper
spread with the guidance of a newspaper editor;
- Learning and practicing the acting technique of Repetition
from an actress and playwright;
- Getting a first-hand look at some of the tools and techniques
used by an emergency room doctor; and
- Producing short audio and video segments with the help
of audio and video engineers.
To read Twitter updates posted live to our
feed over the course of the event, visit our Twitter feed
by clicking here.
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Skiing, Skating and Having Fun -
March 1, 2010
Here are a few of our favourite shots from
this year's Ski and Skate Day, which took place on Thursday,
February 18, at Horseshoe Valley Ski Resort and the Harbourfront
Centre's Natrel Rink. Hope you enjoy them as much as our girls
enjoyed hitting the rink and the slopes!
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HOZA! - February 19, 2010
Though it was a cold and dreary day outside,
the Linden gym was full of song, dance and hope on Wednesday,
February 17, as we celebrated Black History Month.
At Wednesday's All-School, organized
by the Keresan family, Linden students and teachers welcomed
Kevin and Derek from HOZA!, an organization that offers workshops
based on creative mediation. Creative mediation encourages
self-awareness, development and learning by having participants
engage with a creative medium, such as visual art, song, or
dance.
Our students and teachers entered the gym
to the sound of drumming, performed by Kevin and Derek to
invite us to join their indaba. An indaba, Kevin explained,
is a council or meeting between indigenous tribes in South
Africa, where Kevin is from. With this introduction as a springboard,
Kevin went on to share his experiences as a white person growing
up in apartheid South Africa - and to show us how he and other
young people began to bridge the gap apartheid had created.
As a white student at a mixed-race school
(which his parents had purposefully sought out), Kevin had
many black friends, but the bond between them solidified for
life when he saw his friends performing the "gumboot
dance" in the schoolyard and asked to learn it. The gumboot
dance originated in the gold mines of South Africa, where
many black South Africans were pressed into service. Because
many of the workers did not share a common language, they
had to find other ways to communicate; one of these ways involved
tapping on their rubber boots, or gumboots, issued to them
to protect their feedtfrom the fetid water in the mine.
Kevin and his friends began performing this
dance at indabas, weddings and other ceremonies, and seeing
white people and black people work together to perform this
dance touched everyone watching. Through dance, Kevin helped
strengthen the feeling of many South Africans that apartheid
should not continue, and strengthen the opposition that eventually
caused apartheid to crumble.
Dance was just one of the methods Kevin
and Derek used when telling this story today - though a spirited
demonstration of the gumboot dance by Kevin received raucous
applause. They also used traditional South African songs,
such as the children's song "Chocholoza" (roughly
translated as "Chugga Chugga Choo Choo"), an upbeat
call-and-response song, and traditional drumming techniques.
Kevin and Derek had us all on our feet throughout the All-School,
and by the end, they had several girls drumming and dancing
with them in front of the audience!
To learn more about HOZA!, click here.
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