I remember reading Flowers for Algernon!!! I think it was for grade 7. We had watched the movie after finishing the book.

We also had to read Shane, The Pearl, The Cay... I don't remember which was for grade 7 and which for grade 8 though.

(I went to French schools. Our first English classes were in grade 3. In high school though, our English courses were the same as in any of the English schools of the province, and we wrote the same provincial exams in English as every other 12th grade student in Nova Scotia.)

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Si à travers nos veines coule encore le sang...
Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.