MYP4 November 2023 – January 2024 Overview

Homeroom

MYP4A & MYP4B

Teachers:

M4A Ms. Eunice, Mr. Welch

M4B Ms. Eva and Mr. Keon

ATL skills:

Self-Management—

Help your child by: developing self-management skills by encouraging them to set realistic goals and deadlines. Additionally, open communication and collaborative problem-solving can empower teenagers to navigate challenges and make informed decisions, promoting self-efficacy and resilience.

English Language and Literature

Teacher:  Rowan Marr

Unit Title: Maus: An exploration of trauma and the dark side of humanity.

Concepts: creativity

Key Concept: creativity

Related Concepts: context, structure

ATL skills: communication, self-management

1. Help your child by: Ensuring that your child is completing the homework at home and that they are completing it to the best of their ability without the use of AI.
2. Reading the text at home and making accurate summaries of the specific chapters.
3. Researching and preparing for formative and summative assessments at home.

Understanding the historical context of the text and approaching it in a mature manner.

English Language Acquisition

Teachers:

Mr. Roman Alokhin Phase 3

Ms. Cathy Qiang Phase 4

Mr. Randy Welch Phase 5 /6

Unit Title: What Determines Health?

Concepts:

Key Concepts: Connections

Related Concepts: Conventions, Point of View, Purpose

ATL skills: Communication, Self-Management

Help your child by:

Reading aloud with your child. Take turns reading paragraphs or pages, followed by discussing the text as you go along. It will improve her/his listening and speaking skills simultaneously.

Individuals & Societies

Teachers:

Kyle Jooste

David Roe

Unit Title: Population

Concepts:

Key Concept: Change

Related Concepts: Causality

ATL skills: Communication, research, thinking.

Help your child by: having a discussion about different population sizes in different cities that your family lives in or has lived in. What happens to the housing prices when a city becomes more populated? Has the elderly members of your family ever lived in the countryside? Did they chose to live in the city at some point? If yes, why? These are some great conversation starters to have with your child.

Mathematics

Teachers:

Sky Du (EL), Chaslyn(SL), Tanapat(SL)

Unit Title:  Statistics

Concepts:

Key Concept:

Relationships

Related Concept: function, patterns

Representation, Quantity

ATL skills:

 Collaboration skills

Working effectively with others

• Practise empathy
• Build consensus
• Make fair and equitable decisions

 Information literacy skills

Finding, interpreting, judging and creating information

• Collect, record and verify data
• Make connections between various sources of information

Help your child by:

Constantly check their notebook and homework book status(are they being properly used and mistakes are correctly, dates or brief comments are written by teachers?), encourage them to challenge themselves by participating more math related activities such as math competitions or math clubs.

Chinese Language Acquisition: phase 1-2

Teacher:  Emma Yang

Unit Title: The teenager life

Concepts:

Key Concept: communication

Related Concepts: function, patterns

ATL skills:

Communication skills
Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interaction Give and receive meaningful feedback
Use intercultural understanding to interpret communication
Use a variety of speaking techniques to communicate with a variety of audiences Social

Collaboration skills
Working effectively with others
Take responsibility for one’s own actions
Give and receive meaningful feedback

Help your child by:

1. Ask your child to teach you how to describe someone’s appearance and hobbies.
2. Be the interviewee of the class activity
3. Help them with vocabulary memorization

Chinese Language Acquisition:

Teacher: Jasmin Sun (Phase 5)

Unit Title: Teenager life- Cool and Confused

Concepts:

Key concept: Culture

Related concepts: Bias, Empathy

ATL skills:

Social Skills: Collaboration skills
Research Skills:
Information literacy skills
Media literacy skills

Help your child by:

1. Check regularly if student is working on his plan of writing Chinese characters. (this is a daily work)
2. Chat with student about the stress they are suffering from as a teenager and how they relief themselves.

Chinese Language Acquisition:

Level:

Teacher:

Unit Title:

Concepts:

Key Concept:

Related Concepts:

ATL skills:

Help your child by:

Chinese Language and Literature

Teacher: Carrie Quan and Eunice Hou

Unit Title: A Woman’s Story

Concepts:

Key Concept: Identity

Related Concepts: Genres, Context

ATL skills: Social and Research Skills

Help your child by:

Reading the assigned autobiography and watching the documentations  and take effective reading notes

Follow the guidance of the teacher regarding the PBL Project and hand in the final project on time, further enhancing the self-management and time-management skills

Korean language and Literature

Teacher: Keon Yang

Unit Title: Literate people

Concepts

Key Concept: communication

Related Concepts: style, structure

ATL skills

communication skill- communication skill

Help your child by:

You can share your reading list with your child. Your child develops their identities with experiences engaging in story-telling

Music

Teachers:

Jonathan Lee Ching

Nathan Kim

Unit Title: Showtime

Concepts:

Key Concept: Identity

Related Concepts: Expression, Genre

ATL skills:

Self-management

1. Reflection skills

(Re-)considering the process of learning; choosing and using ATL skills

• Try new ATL skills and evaluate their effectiveness

Research

VII. Media literacy skills

Interacting with media to use and create ideas and information

• Understand the impact of media representations and modes of presentation

Thinking

1. Creative thinking skills

Generating novel ideas and considering new perspectives

• Create original works and ideas; use existing works and ideas in new ways

Help your child by:

• Encouraging them to listen to music from different styles and genres, and completing their Listening Log if required
• Ensuring that your child is practicing their instrument / singing on a daily basis
• Checking their homework diary and Managebac for homework, and ensuring that the homework is completed in a timely manner.

Design

Teachers: Sunil Kumar Pusluri

Unit Title:

Living together in a highly interconnected world

Concepts:

Key Concepts: Communities

Related Concepts: Collaboration

ATL skills:

Research

• Identify primary and secondary sources

Thinking

• Create original works and ideas; use existing works and ideas in new ways.

Transfer

• Apply skills and knowledge in unfamiliar situations

Research

• Evaluate evidence and arguments

Help your child by:

• Encourage them to research about how communities collaborate.

Encourage them to plan their assignments, short-term and long term goals.

Visual Art

Teacher: Leena Nothoo

Unit Title:  Art Inspired by Nature

Concepts:

Key Concept: Aesthetics

Related Concepts: Interpretation

 ATL Skills:
– Communication
– Subject specific skills, knowledge and understandings

Help your child by:
– Encouraging them to research on and keep a glossary notebook for Visual Arts terms and vocabulary

– Encouraging your child to complete homework on their own, when homework is set

Physical and Health Education

Teacher: Hakim Halim

Unit Title: Aesthetic Movements: The World Warrior

Concepts:

Key Concepts: Change

Related Concepts: Function, Movement

ATL skills:

Communication (Communication skills)

• Reading, writing and using language to gather and communicate information(Read a variety of sources for information and for pleasure)

Self-management (Organization skills, Reflection skills)

• Managing time and tasks effectively(Keep an organised and logical system of information files/notebooks)
• (Re-)considering the process of learning; choosing and using ATL skills(Consider ATL skills development – How can I share my skills to help peers who need more practice?)

Help your child by: Encourage your child by actively participate in various physical activities at home

Theatre

Teacher: Engela Potgieter

Unit Title: Realism Performance Unit 2

Concepts

Key concept: Change

Related Concepts: Narrative, Presentation

ATL Skills:

• Give and receive meaningful feedback
• Use a variety of speaking techniques to communicate with a variety of audiences
• Make fair and equitable decisions
• Listen actively to other perspectives and ideas
• Negotiate effectively
• Encourage others to contribute
• Exercise leadership and take on a variety of roles within groups
• Give and receive meaningful feedback
• Bring necessary equipment and supplies to class
• Practise strategies to overcome distractions
• Practise being aware of body–mind connections
• Access information to be informed and inform others
• Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats
• Make unexpected or unusual connections between objects and/or ideas
• Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products or processes

Help your child by:

Rehearsing their lines at home and ensure they have the necessary equipment for the performance.