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MYP Course
All IB programmes value language as central to the development of critical thinking, which is essential for cultivating intercultural understanding and responsible membership in local, national and global communities.
Language is integral to exploring and sustaining personal development and cultural identity, and provides an intellectual framework that supports the construction of conceptual understanding.
As MYP students interact with a range of texts, they generate insight into moral, social, economic, political, cultural and environmental domains. They continually grow in their abilities to form opinions, make decisions, and reason ethically—all key attributes of an IB learner.
Assessment
Students will be assessed in four Areas:
A: Analysing Students demonstrate an understanding of the creator’s choices, the relationship between the various components of a text and between texts, and make inferences about audience responses and creators’ purposes. Students use the text to support their own responses and reflect on different perspectives and interpretations.
B: Organizing Students understand and organize their ideas and opinions using a range
of appropriate conventions for different forms and purposes of communication. Students recognize the importance of maintaining academic honesty, respecting intellectual property rights and referencing all sources accurately.
C: Producing text Students produce written and spoken text, focusing on the creative process itself and on the understanding of the connection between the creator and his or her audience. Students make choices aimed at producing texts that affect both the creator and the audience.
D: Using language Students develop, organise and express themselves and communicate thoughts, ideas and information. They use accurate and varied language that is appropriate to the context and intention.
Characters in literature can illustrate that our identity can be formed by the connection we make with others.
A study of gang culture, using SE Hinton's reader The Outsiders as the literature text. The unit will explore the human need to fit in and the cause and effect of gang culture. The novel study will be supplemented by a range of non-fiction texts, including news articles and opinion columns. The two summative assessments will be an interview-based article on a character from the novel, and an analysis poster of an aspect of the novel.
Producers of texts use purpose and style to affect our perspective on what it means to be human.
Through a range of literature including non-fiction, media and film texts (such as poetry by Sarah Kay, the short film 'Love is a Gift', the Ted Talk 'How I climbed a 3000 ft cliff without ropes', ...) Summative Assessment will be an analysis essay of personally selected text showing how it communicates its persepctive of what it is to be human.
How something is communicated affects how people relate to it.
IDU with I&S: An exploration of how information can be communicated in documentary techniques, specifically b-roll, SOT, nat sound and narrative culminating in students making a documentary on an aspect of medicine in history as drawn from I&S lessons. Students will need to demonstrate understanding of how words, music, and techniques effect how the information being communicated is perceived.
Through their use of character, writers can express their point of view about issues.
This unit will use a variety of texts to explore how writers construct characters and narrative to express viewpoints. Students will seek first to emulate pieces and then to construct their own creative piece. The final assessment will be a selection of their writing showing a range of language skills.
Writers use style to express their emotions about migration and displacement.
This unit focuses on the experiences of migration that are communicated through poetry. Students will explore the poems Search for My Tongue by Subject Bhatt, Island Man and Hurricane Hits England by Grace Nichols, The Slave's Dream by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan by Monica Ali. Via their summative, students will have the opportunity to analyze a poem that delves deeply into the migrant experience.
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