MYP1+LA

= = MYP 1 LA  MYP 1 Course Outline

August 30th 2011

Remember, your first assignment is to write about your summer. Don't spend more than 30 minutes on it unless you really want to. Make sure you bring it to class on Friday. I have attached the instruction sheet, in case you misplaced it. I can't wait to read about all your holiday adventures!

Writing Assignment



Unit 1

The Reading Bug

Area of Interaction

Approaches to Learning

Guiding Questions

How can we motivate ourselves and others to read? How can we share our reading experiences?

Summative Assessment

In this unit students will be setting up blogs to report on their own reading and share their reading with their teacher, classmates and parents. The final assessment of this unit will be a written response to a short story that the students will read independently. However, this will be an ongoing project and will be assessed each trimester.

The first draft is due on **Friday 7th October**



September 20th 2011

Congratulations! You have now all set up your own reading blogs and they're looking good! Next week, when you get back from the integration workshop, we will all become followers of each other's blogs so that we can comment on what our classmates are writing. We wrote a response to the short story 'Feeding The Dog' by Susan Price in class today. If you did not finish this, please do so before our lesson next Monday (26th September). Make sure you follow the guidelines on the handout I gave you. I have attached the document below.



Starting from next week, you will be expected to update your blog at least 3 times a week. I will be checking in on you from time to time and giving you feedback. You will also be free to read the blogs of your classmates and make comments. When you have finished a book or a novel, you should write a response to it on your blog following the guidelines on the document above. This will be an ongoing project throughout the year and will be assessed each trimester. You will be expected to complete at least two entries per trimester, but of course you can do more. I will post the criteria for this assessment after we have discussed it in class.

Happy Reading!
Unit 2

Me, Myself & I

Area of Interaction

Health & Social Education

Guiding Questions

What makes me so interesting?

How can i make my writing more engaging?

Summative Assessment

Students will write extracts of their own autobiography. Please see the attachment for more details.



Now that the students have finished writing their autobiography introductions, they need to think about what other two episodes of their life they want to write about. Please check the following handout for more detailed instructions and timelines.




 * Student Work**

The students did such a great job with their introductions that I would really like to share their work with you. I had to do some editing to take out the names of the students, so you might see ** where originally their names were!

Happy reading! I will post the others when I get electronic versions from the students.



The student autobiographies are now complete and have been printed in colour!!!! They have done a great job ans hould be really proud of what they have done! The books are on display in the Zielinskiego theatre Room this week (Jan 18th 20th) while the book fair is going on and then students will be free to take their work home! I will post the PDF versions of their work soon!



=**Independant Reading Project**=

Leading up to Literacy week at the end of January, each student will be expected to read a novel in English independently and create a book project and presentation. For more details, please check out the following document.



Literacy Week is now underway and the projects that the students have been working on are displayed in the Theatre Room at Zielinskiego campus while the book fair is running. The students produced some great work and in case you didn't have chance to come and see them in person, here are some photos!



Current Unit

Greek Mythology

Area of Interaction

Human Ingenuity

Guiding Questions

What meanings did myths about gods, goddesses and heroes have for the ancient Greeks?

What meanings do the Greek myths have for us today?

Summative Assessment

Oral Presentation - Research and speech about a greek god or goddess

Creative Writing - Following the structure of a myth and writing an 'original' myth


 * Oral Presentation Instructions & Rubric **





Attention!

We now have a date for the grade 6s will present their Greek God speeches and I would like to invite you to the performance!

Date: Wednesday 4th April Time: 11:25-12:10 Place: Zielinskiego Theatre

Please put this date in your diary! We look forward to seeing you!

=Greek God Presentations=


 * Poseidon, Hades, Hera and Athena performed their speeches just before the Easter break - thanks to parents who came to watch - and Ares, Aphrodite and Apollo performed on the first day back after Easter. They all did a great job of remembering their lines and getting into character!!!!! **





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