MYP4/5 Language & Literature

How Good Are We?

Key Concepts
Perspectives, Global interactions, Relationships

Related Concepts:
Audience Imperatives, Style, Purpose, Point of View, and Context

Relevant Conditions

Global Context
Globalization & Sustainability

Students will explore the interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities; the relationship between local and global processes; how local experiences mediate the global; the opportunities and tensions provided by world-interconnectedness; the impact of decision-making on humankind and the environment.

Statement of Inquiry:
Global interactions can have consequences for humans and the natural environment

Factual Question:
What is journalism?

Factual Question:
What makes a good journalistic team?

Conceptual Question:
How can we use the writing process to communicate our stories as news for a specific audience?

Debatable Question:
How and why do stories become news?

Debatable Question:
To what extent does the audience affect what you write and how you write it?

Factual Question:
What does a 21st century school look like?

Debatable Question:How does AOBA compare?
... to Japanese schools?
...to overseas schools?

Grasps

• Goal: research our school against others and a standard
• Role: Journalistic team
• Audience: The school and the world
• Situation: A School in Transition
• Product: Produce a class blog with various works of journalism
• Standards:Lang & Lit Criteria A-D, Rubrics

Homework:
Find a "piece of Journalism" to share with the class tomorrow
150 to250 words.

Tools to help

• An actual Journal/Notebook
• Print Friendly & PDF Chrome app
• A shared process journal

Suggestions

• One laptop at a time
• Most of your research will not be found by Google
• You MUST talk to and interview people. Research interview skills

Free Time

• Do homework
• Read a book
• Journal / Diary
• Create something beautiful
• Have a quiet English Conversation