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[sleepy]

dd1 was assigned to IRS. dd2 did IVP. Personally, we find IRS way more time consuming than IVP.

[hquek]

Grr_roxy:

Tks PiggyLalala. Now, DC saw the p5 performance for DI (Destination Imagination) today and thought it was interesting. It was previously her 2nd choice. Told her to give herself till Sat(last day) to decide. But DI according to her only select 14 students so may not get it as there was audition and some assignment prior to that. Let's see how things go. But I think this ISO will take up quite a bit of their time next yr.


Btw, anyone has the ERP list for P5 2015?

For p5, they will start with mystery stories. Get books by Agatha Christie or the Sherlock holmes books. Those will come in handy and there are a lot...can last quite a while.

[Figaro]

My p4 and p5 ERP lists are in a box somewhere… But here’s the p6 list.


In p6, term 1 is focused on writing biography on a real person. In term 2, need to submit a book review (incorporating persuasive techniques) and prepare for oral performance task based on that book.

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GIFTED EDUCATION PROGRAMME EXTENSIVE READING PROGRAMME (PRIMARY 6)

List A: Biographies and Autobiographies (Term 1)

In Term 1, you will do a study on biographies. You will need to be quite familiar with this genre, thus we would like you to do some reading.

1. Anne Frank, Diary of A Young Girl, 1995, New York: Doubleday.**
2. Annie Dillard, An American Childhood, 1987, New York: Harper & Row.
3. Esther Hautzig, The Endless Steppe, 1968, New York: Harper and Row Publishers.
4. Eudra Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings, 1983, New York: Warner Books.
5. Jill Ker Conway, The Road From Coorain, 1990, New York: Alfred a Knopf.
6. Kendall Hailey, The Day I Became An Autodidact, 1988, New York: Dell Publishing.
7. Lorene Carey, Black Ice, 1991, New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
8. Robyn Montana Turner, Rosa Bonheur, 1991, Boston:Little, Brown and Company.
9. Russell Freedman, Eleanor Roosevelt, A Life of Discovery, 1993, New York: Scholastic,
Inc.

References:
a. Penny Britton Kolloff, "Annotated Bibliography of Books for Gifted Girls"
b. Thomas P. Hebert, "Great Books for Gifted Young Men"
c. Thomas P. Hebert, "Great Books for Gifted Young Women"


List B: Fiction (Term 2 - 4)

1. Abelove, Joan, Go and Come Back
2. Alan Garner, The Owl Service
3. Armstrong, William, Sounder
4. Arnow, Harriet, The Dollmaker
5. Bawden, Nina, Carrie’s War
6. Berlie Doherty, The Snake-Stone
7. Beverley Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth
8. Blishen, Leon Garfield and Edward, The God Beneath the Sea
9. Blos, Joan M, A Gathering of Days
10. Brian Doyle, Uncle Ronald
11. Brooks, Bruce, Midnight Hour Encores
12. Card, Orson Scott, Ender’s Game
13. Carter, Forrest, The Education of Little Tree
14. Chaim Potok, The Promise
15. Conrad Richter, The Light in the Forest
16. Cooper, Susan, The Grey King
17. Creech, Sharon, Walk Two Moons
18. Cresswell, Helen, Ordinary Jack
19. Crichton, Michael, The Andromeda Strain
20. Crispin Avi, The Cross of Lead
21. Crossley-Holland, Kevin, Storm
22. Dickinson, Peter, City of Gold
23. Dickinson, Peter, The Gift
24. Dorris, Michael, Morning Girl
25. Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
26. Erik Haugaard, The Little Fishes
27. Fast, Howard, Freedom Road
28. Fisk, Nicholas, Backlash
29. Fisk, Pauline, Midnight Blue
30. Frank, Anne, The Diary of Anne Frank **
31. George, Jean Craighead, Julie of the Wolves
32. Gloss, Molly, The Jump-Off Creek
33. Gripe, Maria, In Time of Bells
34. Gunn, Paula, Spider Woman’s Granddaughters
35. Holm, Anne, I am David **
36. Huggan, Isabel, The Elizabeth Stories
37. I.W. Cornwall , The Making of Man
38. Jan Mark, Stratford Boys
39. Jean Thesman , The Ornament Tree
40. Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
41. Kate Seredy, The White Stag
42. Kavanagh, Jack, Barry Sanders: Rocket Running Back
43. Keith, Harold, Rifles for Watie
44. Kevin Henkes, Olive’s Ocean
45. Krumgold, Joseph, Onion John
46. L’Engle, Madeleine, A Swiftly Tilting Planet
47. Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard
48. Line, David, Run for your Life
49. Lively, Penelope, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
50. Lovelace, Maude Hart, Heaven to Betsy and Betsy In Spite of Herself
51. Lowry, Lois, The Giver
52. Lowry, Lois, Number the Stars **
53. MacGill, Sheila, The Children of Lir
54. Mahon, K. L., Just One Tear
55. Margaret Mahy, The Pirates’ Mixed-up Voyage in the Thousand Islands
56. Margorian, Michelle, Goodnight, Mister Tom
57. Marilyn Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems
58. Matas, Carol, Greater than Angels
59. Mayne, William, A Grass Rope
60. McKay, Hilary, The Exiles in
Love
61. McKillip, Patricia, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
62. Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief
63. Naughton, Bill, A Dog called Nelson
64. Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds, Ice
65. Paterson, Katherine, Jacob Have I Loved
66. Paterson, Katherine, Lyddie
67. Paulsen, Gary, Brian’s Winter
68. Peck, Richard E., Something for Joey
69. Pennebaker, Ruth, Don’t Think Twice
70. Peter Dickinson , The Healer
71. Pinkwater, D. Manus, Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy from Mars
72. Potok, Chaim, The Chosen
73. Powell, Randy, Dean Duffy
74. Ray Bradbury , The Martian Chronicles
75. Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder
76. Robin McKinley , The Hero and the Crown
77. Rostkowski, Margaret, The Best of Friends
78. Rubinstein, Gillian, Galax-Arena
79. Rylant, Cynthia, Missing May
80. Sid Fleischman, The Whipping Boy
81. Sleator, William, Blackbriar
82. Southall, Ivan, Josh
83. Staples, Suzanne Fisher, Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind
84. Thompson, Julian, Simon Pure
85. Tolan, Stephanie, A Time to Fly
86. Tolan, Stephanie, No Safe Harbors
87. Trevino, Elizabeth Borten, I, Juan de Pareja
88. Ure, Jean, What If They Saw Me Now?
89. Voight, Cynthia, The Runner
90. Williams-Garcia, Rita , Like Sisters on the Homefront
91. Wolff, Virginia Euwer, Mozart Season
92. Woodson, Jacqueline, Last Summer with Maizon and Maizon at Blue Hill
93. Zindel, Paul, The Amazing and Death Defying Diary of Eugene Dingma

[junemum72]

Grr_roxy:

Tks PiggyLalala. Now, DC saw the p5 performance for DI (Destination Imagination) today and thought it was interesting. It was previously her 2nd choice. Told her to give herself till Sat(last day) to decide. But DI according to her only select 14 students so may not get it as there was audition and some assignment prior to that. Let's see how things go. But I think this ISO will take up quite a bit of their time next yr.


Btw, anyone has the ERP list for P5 2015?

Can I know abt the IVP and IRS for P5 next year? I notice that you mentioned your gal has to decide by Sat but mine didn't say anything yet?

I was told they were given a long survey and the result will determine if they suit IVP or IRS? But I know a few of the classmates were not there to do the survey that day as they were invited to the IVP exhibition.

I hope I m not missing anything. Thanks for sharing.

[Lenny08]

Hello Sleepy


Can you please share why ivp is more time consuming than IRS?

Thank you.


Lenny

sleepy:

dd1 was assigned to IRS. dd2 did IVP. Personally, we find IRS way more time consuming than IVP.

[ebebel]

Hi, do all GEP schools have after school care? TIA!

[dagong99]

ebebel:

Hi, do all GEP schools have after school care? TIA!

Nan Hua has it, not sure about others.

[phtthp]

ebebel:

Hi, do all GEP schools have after school care? TIA!

Rgps don't have after school care

other GEP schools :
can ask them, at their respective school thread

[Grr_roxy]

Hi junemum72,


I was told by my DD that they were first given a form to indicate their choices. She chose IVP as first choice. After which, there were a mini assignment or test. I believe that was a test to see if they suit IVP. But not all was given that assignment from what she told me. Then for DI, there was an audition. After audition, there was an assignment for them to complete. Assignment is strictly to be done by the child only. So after these series of events, DD class was told to go to go ask and learn this week to select their choices. Not sure if this is the survey that you meant? We haven’t done it yet as DD was unsure if she want DI instead. But I believe this should be the last round to do their selection.

[lee_yl]

Hi,


Would like to hear from GEP parents if they encountered a situation when it comes to choosing GEP centre, parent and child both have different views.

Parent’s first choice could be the nearest centre (SAP school, co-ed).
However, DC is only willing to transfer to a single gender and non-SAP school (similar to DC’s current school environment).

Can the parent’s view prevail? Or should the child be allowed to have his/her way?