A day in the life of a Brookfield High School student

As I mentioned before classes start at 9:00 when the first bell of the day rings and students must go to their assigned classes. Each teacher has his/her own classroom, so the students are the ones that have to move from one classroom to the next. Students are assigned lockers where they can leave their coats, books and any other personal items that they wish.

FIRST PERIOD 

At 9:05 the second bell rings and all teachers and students stand to listen to the national anthem 'O Canada'. 

Click here to hear the National Anthem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRPGPAnPNa8

After the National Anthem the school PA system makes all the necessary announcements for the day.

At about 9:10 the first class starts with Mr. Deforest. He's an English language and literature teacher. He's teaching a grade 10th class and right now they are studying Shakespeare, specifically  Twelfth Night, which is one of Shakespeare's greatest comedies. Students sit in groups of four and choose quotes in the play to analyse. They have to talk about characters, themes, style and literary figures. In previous classes they have read the first act out loud, they have seen parts of the film and talked about some of the themes which the play revolves around. In futher classes along the week the teacher will ask them to come to a small table in groups and comment on the different quotes they have found. 

The last week of November they will start working on the literary figures in the novel The Lord of the Flies. 

There are about 26 students in the class and they work surprisingly well within their small groups. 

SECOND PERIOD

At 10:20 the bell rings and I stay in Mr. Deforest's class. His second period is a grade 11th First Nations English Literature class. At 10:25 all the students have arrived and the first thing they do in this class is acknowledge that Brookfield High School is on unceded territory. 

We would like to acknowledge that our schools are on unceded Algonquin Territory, and thank the Algonquin Nation for hosting us on their land.

MR. DEFOREST'S CLASSROOM