MYP+3+LA+2012-2013

MYP 3



Reading Journal In order to meet the following objective:

//Students begin to express an informed personal response to literary and non-literary texts and demonstrate the ability to approach age appropriate works independently,//

the MYP 3 students will be keeping a weekly reading log. They are expected to read frequently - the recommendation is about 45 minutes a day - and to keep a reading log which they will turn in every Thursday throughout the whole year. Each trimester they will receive a grade for this task which is based on the journal entries they have written throughout that trimester.

In order to complete this task effectively, they need to write a clear and concise summary of their reading, give a personal response and provide evidence to support their opinions, make predictions about what will happen next and make connections with other books they have read or with their own lives and experiences. I will guide the students through this process and give feedback for all their entries.



Unit 1: The Media - Marketing

AOI Focus:

Human Ingenuity

ATL Focus:

Communication & Collaboration

Learner Profile Focus:

Communicator

Unit Question:

How can we persuade people to buy into something?

Formative Assessments:



Deconstructing coffee and tea adverts





Now choose one of the adverts and write about the techniques used



Summative Assessment:





Unit Reflection



In this unit students will...
 * Look at the process of marketing a product
 * Investigate what makes a good logo and what makes a bad logo
 * Look at techniques for creating memorable slogans
 * Deconstruct print advertising
 * Practise persuasive writing and speaking
 * Look at marketing charities
 * Produce an oral presentation explaining how they would market a new product

This unit is also connected with the first DT unit for MYP 3. Students will work on creating their own logo in DT and their presentation will also be graded for language A in terms of content and style and language use. Please see the rubric above: MYP Media Studies Logo Presentation Formative Assessment.

Logo Presentation

As you all know, WIS is celebrating its 10th Birthday this year. To honour this occasion, the school is running a **//Give a Birthday Book//** campaign. To go along with this campaign, we have opened a competition to design a logo, which will be put on the stickers that go on the spines and inside all the donated books. The MYP 3 students used their knowledge of logo design to put together a presentation to teach the rest of the school the dos and don'ts of creating logos. For them the emphasis was on presentation skills and in particular on using questions to connect with and engage the audience. They were assessed according to the following rubric.











Final Summative Assessment

At our WIS Assembly on Wednesday 7th November, the grade 8s gave their marketing presentations. They had spent the previous week and a half of school designing their own chocolate product and creating a marketing campaign for it. The target market was 9 to 16 year-olds, so after the presentations, the PYP 5 and MYP 1-5 students voted for the product and campaign they thought would be most successful. There was no runaway winner, SMMACK and Trigo got 8 votes each and Munchy Bar got 7, so it was a very close contest!

Thank you to all the parents who came to support the students. It's great to have a larger and more varied audience for the student to present in front of.









Final Unit Reflections















Unit 2: Identity

AOI Focus: Health & Social Education

ATL Focus: Thinking & Reflection

Learner Profile Focus: Open-minded & Thinker

Unit Question: Who am I? What has influenced my identity?


 * Formative Assessments: **

Short pieces of writing

Reading Journal Entries

Presentation

Discussion


 * Summative Assessment: **

Writing a Personal Narrative Test & Discussion on the novel

=Samples of student work=









Come and see the student's work on display in the WIS wing!



**Task 1**

After reading chapter 1 of //The Outsiders//, please complete the following worksheet:



Unit 3: Exam techniques - essay writing skills

AOI Focus:

Approaches to learning

ATL Focus:

Organisation & Communication

Learner Profile Focus:

Communicator & Thinker

Unit Question:

What do I need to do to improve my essay writing skills?

Formative Assessments:

Writing introduction and thesis statement practice Writing body paragraphs with topic sentences, supporting detail & concluding sentences practice Writing conclusions practice Timed essay

Summative Assessment:

Timed essay

Unit 4: Speak for yourself!

AOI Focus:

Human Ingenuity

ATL Focus:

Communication & Organisation

Learner Profile Focus:

Communicator & risk-taker

Unit Question:

What does it take to make a good speaker?


 * Formative Assessments: **

Analysis of speeches

Exercises to practise different aspect of speech writing e.g. literary tools such as alliteration, repetition, considering purpose & audience etc.

Discussion


 * Summative Assessment: **

Writing and presenting a speech for our middle school students