Dear Lakeshore Parents and Students: 

Welcome to a new school year! My name is Ms. Ekta Singh, and I am very excited to be teaching your child this year. I have been teaching High School and Middle School English and Social Sciences for 12 years and most recently was working at an International Baccalaureate (IB) school in the Middle East. After living and teaching overseas in Kuwait for the last three years, I am happy to be back in the Kingston community and part of Lakeshore School team.

Fun Facts about me:

Favourite food: Mexican

Favourite poet: Pablo Neruda + Kahlil Gibran

Favourite vacation: Muscat, Oman

Favourite literature genre: South-Asian fiction

I am looking forward to an enriching, fun-filled, and inquiry-driven classroom experience with your child in the  7/8 program. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments.

Grade 7/8 Language Arts: Areas of Focus

• Memoirs and Memoir Writing
• Shakespeare study: Romeo and Juliet
• Novel Study: “Black like Me” by John Howard Griffin
• The Poetry of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance
• Media Studies: The Power of Advertising
• Social Justice Unit: “12 Angry Men” by Reginald Rose

Geography and History: Areas of Focus

This course will follow the new Inquiry based format for the history/geography units based on revised Ontario curriculum. Each unit focuses on world trends, as well as examples from Canada.

Grade 7:

• Physical Patterns in a Changing World
• Natural Resources around the World: Use and Sustainability

Grade 8:

• Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability
• Global Inequalities: Economic Development and Quality of Life

*Fall/winter will focus on Geography and Winter/Spring will focus on History.