MYP+4+&+5+Language+A++English



=MLA Format Template=




 * Unit 1 Title: **

Travel Writing

 * Area of Interaction Focus: **

Environments


 * Approaches to Learning Focus: **

Communication Skills


 * Learner Profile Attribute: **

Communicator


 * Unit Question: **

How can I make my travel experiences sound amazing?

=Summative Assessment Task 1: Test - Text analysis=








 * Summative Assessment Task 2: **

A piece of original travel writing = =





You can take a look at the students' work here:













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**Formative Assessment Task 1:**

A piece of humorous Writing





Formative Assessment Task 2: Tourist Powerpoint




Here are some of the powerpoints that the students created:









Formative Assessment Task 3: Writing about trip to Warsaw
For this task, the students are being assessed using the same rubric as for the final assessment. However, they were asked to write between 150-500 words for this formative assessment. The students' work is displayed in the WIS wing, but you can also take a look here:


















 * Unit 2 Title: **

Learning about the Holocaust

 * Area of Interaction Focus: **

Health & Social Education


 * Approaches to Learning Focus: **

Communication Skills, Self-management Skills & Research Skills


 * Learner Profile Attribute: **

Communicator, Principled & Reflective


 * Unit Questions: **

//How does reading different views help us to understand what different groups of people around the world have experienced?//

//How are people shaped by the world events that occur during their lives?//

//How can learning about the lives of others (through literature) affect how we live our own lives?//

===For this unit, we will be learning about the Holocaust through a variety of ways including art, photos, poems, documentaries, movies and survivors stories. Each student will read a text on the subject independently. They will be expected to write 4 reading journal entries on their text and create a poster presentation at the end of the unit. For a summary of the assessments tasks for the unit, please look at the following document:===

=Summative Assessment Task: Poster Display & Presentation=







=Formative Assessment Task 1: Reading Journal=





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**The students gave their presentations at the January assembly, in order to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day and share their learning.**

 * From left to right: Alex, Hania, Jimin, Oliver, Seoungwoo, Jessica and Shivangi**





Useful Resources

Watch this video that gives a clear chronology of events and has real footage and photos:

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Take a look at this exhibition that examines why individuals acted as they did: [|http://somewereneighbors.ushmm.org/#/exhibitions]

Here is the website showing Samuel Bak's paintings: []

=**Unit 3: Test Taking Skills**=


 * In preparation for the ISA tests, students will review essay structure and practise timed essays. They will also practice reading skills and test taking skills for the reading paper.**


 * Unit 4 Title: **

poetry

 * Area of Interaction Focus: **

Human Ingenuity


 * Approaches to Learning Focus: **

Thinking Skills


 * Learner Profile Attribute: **

knowledgeable & Thinker


 * Unit Questions: **

How doe poets use language, style & form to create specific effects to engage readers and to influence them?



=Summative Assessment Task 1: Commentary on a poem studied in the unit=





=Summative Assessment Task 2: Test - analysing unseen poems=





During this unit, students will be studying a number of contemporary poems by poets such as Carol Anne Duffy and Simon Armitage, as well as poems from WWI.

 * Unit 5 Title: **

Perspectives

 * Area of Interaction Focus: **

Health & Social Education


 * Approaches to Learning Focus: **

Research & Self-management Skills


 * Learner Profile Attribute: **

Open-minded & Principled


 * Unit Questions: **

What's my perspective

=Summative Assessment Task:=

Research essay on a topic of the student's choice


 * Formative Assessment Task 1: **

Reading Journal






 * Formative Assessment Task 2: **

A letter to...




 * Formative Assessment Task 3: **

Reading comprehension and text analysis


 * Formative Assessment Task 4: **

Guided Essay plan



=Useful Resources:=