DP2 August – October 2022 Overview

Homeroom
Teacher: Mona meng

Shameek Ghosh

In our homeroom, we discuss all the challenges that students face in the 2nd year of DP. We have talked about global competencies and tips for revising. We are also looking at decision-making skills and the need to have a healthy mind and body for success in DP.

Have a conversation with your child about his/her well-being-

Group 1: Language A: Chinese Teachers: Sophia Suo

Unit Title:

The theory of fate in literature

Concepts:

KC: representation, perspective RC: intertextuality, space, time ATL skills:
Research skills:

Search for information, filter it, organize it, present it, as well as cite and credit it

Thinking skills:

Analytical thinking, innovative thinking and critical thinking are important skills to develop in learning, which are guided step by step through a series of inquiry questions.

Help your child by reading and analyzing the language and writing techniques in a range of texts from different periods and places, exploring the author’s writing purpose and the perspectives of the texts, and improving thinking and researching skills.

Group 1: English Language and Literature

Teacher: Mr. Jesse Ridolfo

Unit Title:

Preparing for the Individual Oral. Free Choice Text: The Kite Runner BOW: Jon Ronson

Concepts:

Culture, Perspective, Transformation

ATL Skills:

Communication—Communication Self-Management—Organization Thinking—Critical Thinking

Help Your Child By:

Ensure they are reading and suggest that they read from a variety of genres (fiction) and sources (non-fiction). GoodReads.com is a great resource to find literary texts that they might be interested in. As they’re reading they should reflect on how they feel and contemplate how the author made them feel that way.

Group 1: Korean Language and Literature Teacher: Keon Yang

Unit Title: Creating by transformation

Concepts:
KC: Creativity, Transformation RC: Audience, Setting

ATL skills:
Communication skills, Thinking skills

Help your child by:

Encouraging them to explore the text using concepts about literature and text

Group 2: Language B: English/Chinese Chinese B
Teachers:
Carrie Quan

Mandarin Ab initio Teacher: Jasmin Sun

Language B English Teacher: Cathy Qiang

Chinese Language B

Unit Title: Paper 1 and Paper 2; Text Types; Internal Assessment

Concepts:
KC: Meaning
RC: Variation, Audience and Purpose

ATL skills: Self-management, Thinking Skills, Communication Skills

Help your child by: Managing time and finishing tasks effectively; Set goals that are challenging and realistic; enhance reading, listening, writing and speaking skills; release pressure

Mandarin Ab initio
Unit Title: To Be Open-minded Through Culture

Experience

Concepts:

KC: Culture

RC: Audience, Purpose

ATL skills:

• Communication skill: students will use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes about the theme of experience.
• Thinking skill: students will transfer prior knowledge, compare the culture similarities and differences in terms of food habits, festival customs and other aspects relating to this theme.Help your child by:

• Check students’ understanding of Man Ab initio 5 themes, 5 concept understanding, 3 categories text type and assessment outline.
• Support students to check Managebac regularly, finish tasks on time and review Chinese characters timely.
• Help students to set up challenging and realistic goals for their Chinese language learning.
• Enable students to communicate in the language they have studied in a range of contexts and for a variety of purposes about the topic of festivals, food and tourism.English B
  Unit Title: Experiences – Sketch Our Lives

  Theme: Experiences
  Key Concepts: communication, connection, and

  culture
  Related Concepts: audience, purpose, and context

• ATL Skills:Thinking skills – ask open questions and reflect on learning experiences

  Communication skills – explain understanding, conduct oral presentation, and contribute to discussion

  Self-management skills – being organized and punctual; meet the deadline and practice positive thinking.

  Help your child by:

  Ensure your kid read on a regular basis. Remind your kid to manage time and task effectively.

Group 3: Geography

Teacher: J. Quinlan

Unit Title: Urban Environments
Concepts: Places, Possibilities, Processes, Power

Spatial Interactions, Scales

ATL skills: Note-taking skills, selecting ideas and summarising. Preparing essays.

Help your child by: Ask your child about the topics covered and ask him/her to relate the issues we have seen in class to Xi’an. This will help them make connections to the real world and reinforce their knowledge.

Check ManageBac for work that is not handed in.

Business Management

Teacher: Eva liu

Unit Title:
Unit 3 – Finance and Accounts

Concepts: Change, Culture, Ethics, Globalization, Innovation and Strategy

Content: Understanding sources of finance, business costs and revenue, basic financial statements, and decision making tools.
Context: Arthur Andersen scandal, 2008 financial market collapse

ATL skills: critical thinking, synthesis of theory and data, analytical thinking, research, writing

Help your child by:

Discuss ethical requirements in your field of work and the implications. Encourage them to share their findings about unethical practices in audit and finance. Keep up-do-date with their homework completion status.

Group 4: Biology:

Teacher: Shameek Ghosh

Unit Title: Human Physiology (SL & HL)

Concepts: Nutrients provide energy, transport in the body and defense mechanisms, movement and energy

ATL skills: Research skills in finding out functions of blood and the skeleton.

Communication skills in improving the writing of the IA.

Self management skills in keeping to the deadlines.

Help your child by: asking them to work on revising the IA criteria, reading the content covered to have a consistent flow in the classroom and working, and working on their self- management skills.

Chemistry;

Teacher: Kelvin Tian

Unit Title: Acids and Bases Concepts:

Theories of acids and bases Properties of acids and bases The pH scale
Strong and weak acids and bases Acid deposition

ATL skills:

Thinking

• give students time to think through their answers before asking them for a response
• set students a task which required higher- order thinking skills (such as analysis or evaluation)
• make a link to TOK Communication

• ask students to explain their understanding of a text or idea to each other
• encourage all students to contribute to discussionsResearch

• require students to formulate/construct a focused research question (either in class or in a homework assignment)

Help your child by: Encourage the students to take more responsibility for their own learning, practice their self-management skills and meet all the deadlines.

Physics:

Teacher: Chris Rothwell

Unit Title: Atomic, Nuclear and Particle Physics Concepts:

Describing the emission and absorption spectrum of common gases

• Solving problems involving atomic spectra, including calculating the

wavelength of photons emitted during atomic transitions

• Completing decay equations for alpha and beta decay

• Determining the half-life of a nuclide from a decay curve

• Investigating half-life experimentally (or by simulation.

• Describing the Rutherford-Geiger-Marsden experiment that led to the
discovery of the nucleus
• Applying conservation laws in particle reactions • Describing protons and neutrons in terms of quarks

• Comparing the interaction strengths of the fundamental forces, including
gravity
• Describing the mediation of the fundamental forces through exchange

particles

ATL skills:

Thinking- students expected to use their thinking skill when sketching the Feynman’s diagrams.

Research- A lot of investigation will be needed to explain the properties of elementary particles.

Help your child by: Encouraging them to work on their IA.

Group 5: Mathematical Analysis and Interpretation

Teacher: Chris Rothwell

Unit Title: STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Concepts:

Be able to understand and use the Binomial and Normal Distributions

ATL skills:

Research

This unit will form a good foundation for students to undertake the Internal Assessment hence great priority will be given to research method.

Help your child by: Encouraging them to work on their IA

Group 5:

Mathematical Analysis and Approaches SL

Teachers: Sky Du

Unit Title: Integration and more Calculus

Concepts:
KC: Approximation and Generalization RC: Change

ATL skills:

Thinking

• In this unit, we will
o ask open questions
o set students a task which required

higher-order thinking skills (such as analysis or evaluation)

Communication

• ask students to explain their understanding of a text or idea to each other

• encourage all students to contribute to discussions

Research

• require students to formulate/construct a focused research question (either in class or in a homework assignment)

Help your child by:

Check with students from time to time to ask their progress in math and provide emotional support. Practice self-management skills by setting up a routine at home and finishing the work on time and meet all deadlines.

Group 5:
Mathematical Analysis and Approaches HL

Teachers: Mr. Tanapat (Ice) Treyanurak

Unit Title: Generalizing Relationships: Exponents, Logarithms, and Integration

Concepts:
KC: Relationships RC: Generalization

ATL skills:
Thinking – ask open questions. Help your child by:

Encourage and, where possible, model a healthy lifestyle. No amount of studying, even mathematics, should get in the way of a full night’s sleep.

Group 6: Visual Arts:

Teacher: Scott Ramon

Unit 1 Title: The Process Portfolio (Visual Diaries & Journals)
Concepts:

KC: Systems

RC:
Expression, Visual culture

ATL skills:
Research, Thinking, Self-Management ___________________

Unit 2 Title: Curation and Cohesion

Concepts:
Coherence
KC:
Connection
RC:
Curation, Form, Mood

ATL skills:
Research, Thinking, Self-Management

Help your child by:

Support your student by encouraging them to practice in their sketchbook everyday. PRACTICE and make notes, sketches, take random pictures with mobile device, document the everyday in some way, capture imagery, find images that are inspiring. Practice the “art” of seeing with your student. Talk about THEMES. Also support your student by talking with them about what they find visually meaningful around them. Talk about important things you both see on television, in the movies, magazines, at the store, and the world around you both. Help them go over and create a time-management plan to make sure they have enough time to meet all upcoming deadlines without become overly stressed. Talk to them about and ask them to show you the artworks they are creating for this class.

Theory of Knowledge

Teacher: Jesse Ridolfo Sophia Suo

Unit Title:

Reengaging with TOK Exploring the TOK Essay AOK: Mathematics

Concepts:

Certainty, Evidence, Interpretation, Justification, Perspective, Pow

ATL skills:

Critical Thinking Creative Thinking Communication Self-Management

Help your child by:

Talk to them about the course, explore the challenging Knowledge Questions with them.

CAS

Teacher:
Kevin McGarry

Unit Title: CAS Project Summarize CAS experiences Reflections on learning outcomes Plan format of CAS Project

ATL skills:

Communication
Critical and Creative Thinking
Research – MISO Method
Self Management (Organization & Reflection) Social (Collaboration)

Help your child by:

• Participate and support your child’s CAS experiences. You can ask them what help they need to be able to attend to their service experiences or do they need materials for their creativity activities.

• Ask them how they have achieved their learning outcomes through their experiences.

ESS

Teacher: Sunny Si

Unit Title:

Soil systems and terrestrial food production systems and societies

Concepts:
KC: Relationship
RC: Interaction and consequences

ATL skills:

Communication

− Reading, writing and using language to gather and communicate information

• Make inferences and draw conclusions
• Use and interpret a range of discipline-specific terms and symbols.
• Research− Information literacy skills
  Finding interpreting, judging and creating

  information

  • Collect, record and verify data
  • Present information in a variety of formatsand platforms

    Self-management

  − Organization skills: managing time and tasks effectively

  • Plan short- and long-term assignments ; meet deadlines

  Help your child by:

  • Check their homework and online learning platform “Kognity” regularly to help them increase their self-management skills.
  • Discuss some case study with them to enhance their understanding of soil system and terrestrial food production systems.