MYP5 August – October 2023 Overview

Homeroom

MYP5A & MYP5B

Teachers:

Sky Du/Sunil

Jane Feng/Chandra

ATL skills:

Self-Management—

• Plan (by properly using student diary)
• Manage Material (by properly using their notebooks and homework books)
• Be on punctual on deadlines

Help your child by:

• Checking his or her diary frequently
• Communicating with him or her if he or she has completed all homework and Personal Project progress.

English Language and Literature

Teacher: Mr. Mark

Unit Title: Things Fall Apart

Concepts:

Key Concept: Perspective

Related Concepts: Character

ATL skills: Thinking

Help your child by:

• Encouraging them to practice reading skills on IXL.
• Providing quiet time for them to read their novel.

English Language Acquisition:

Teachers:

Phase 3/4: Ms. Cathy

Phase 5/6: Mr. Welch

Unit Title:

Why Twenty-first century skills?

Concepts:

Key Concepts: Communication

Related Concepts: Context

ATL skills:

Communication skills

• Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interaction
  • Negotiate ideas and knowledge with peers and teachers
• Reading, writing and using language to gather and communicate information
  • Read critically and for comprehension
  • Make inferences and draw conclusions

Collaboration skills:

• Give and receive meaningful feedback

Help your child by:

• Encouraging them to read everyday
• Checking their diary weekly for homework
• Encourage them to ask questions in class to develop natural inquisitive skills

Individuals & Societies

Teachers: Ms.Na Meng

Unit Title: Revolutions

Concepts:

Key Concept: Change

Related Concepts: Causality (cause and consequence), Innovation and revolution, Processes

ATL skills: Communication & Social

Communication:

• Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interaction
• Reading, writing and using language to gather and communicate information

Social:

• Working effectively with others

Help your child by:

• Encouraging them to share what they’re learning about revolutions in class. Engage in discussions with them about the causes, effects, and significance of these historical events. Ask open-ended questions to stimulate critical thinking.

Encourage your kids to read topic related books, or watch movies and documentaries. Reading or watching these together can be an engaging way to learn about the subject.

Science

Teachers: Chandra Sekhar Mogilisetti

Unit Title: Climate Change – A hopeful future

Concepts:

Key Concept: Change

Related Concepts: Energy, Environment

ATL skills: Research & Thinking

VI . Information Literacy Skills:

• Collect, record and verify data
• Make connections between various sources of information
• Present information in a variety of formats and platforms

VIII. Critical Thinking Skills:

• Interpret data
• Evaluate evidence and arguments

Help your child by:

• Encouraging to investigate climate change, interpret data and analyze evidences.
• Encouraging to make models and understand how climate change works.
• Allowing predictions about the future based on scientific findings

Mathematics

Teachers: Sky Du (EL), Jane Feng(SL), Tanapat(SL)

Unit Title:
Introduction to functions

Concepts:

Key Concept: Form

Related Concept:

Representation, Systems

ATL skills:

• Managing time and tasks effectively
• Plan short- and long-term assignments; meet deadlines
• Make connections between various sources of information
• Create references and citations, use footnotes/endnotes and construct abibliography according to recognised conventions
• Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations
• Create original works and ideas; use existing works and ideas in new ways

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: PH12

Teacher: Momo Li

Unit Title: Occupations

Concepts:

Key Concept: Community

Related Concepts: Message, Pronunciation

ATL skills:

Communication skills

Social skills

Help your child by:

• Building up vocabulary through reading, speaking practice and dictation.
• Engaging students to reflect their learning outcomes and goals with different types of activities including role-playing in their community, creating self-profiles and resumes for choosing ideal jobs in the future.
• Providing students with texts with different length and reading strategies to understand and organize information for different purpose.
• Explore the cultural difference from different perspectives related to job in the world to broaden their view and exercise their communication skills.

Chinese Language Acquisition:

Teacher: Matthew Lu

Phase 5/6

Unit Title: Occupations

Concepts:

Key Concept: Community

Related concepts: purpose，point of view

ATL skills:

Communication skills

Social skills

Help your child by:

Promote social skills such as empathy, teamwork, and cooperation, which are essential when exploring the concept of community.

Encourage your child to participate in group activities and projects related to the unit.

Chinese Language Acquisition:

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Chinese Language and Literature

Teacher ： Carrie Quan, Sophia Suo

Unit Title:

Super Talker-Exploring Global Cultures Through Speech 超级演说家

Concepts:

Key Concept: Connections

Related Concepts: Audience imperatives, Purpose

• ATL skills: Communication skills
• Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interaction
• Use a variety of speaking techniques to communicate with a variety of audiences
• Use appropriate forms of writing for different purposes and audiences
• Organization skills
• Managing time and tasks effectively
• Create plans to prepare for summative assessments (examinations and performances)
• Plan strategies and take action to achieve personal and academic goals
• Keep an organized and logical system of information files/notebooks
• Information literacy skills
• Finding, interpreting, judging and creating information
• Understand the benefits and limitations of personal sensory learning preferences when accessing, processing and recalling information
• Media literacy skills
• Interacting with media to use and create ideas and information
• Locate, organize, analyse, evaluate, synthesise and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media (including digital social media and online networks)

Help your child by:

• Form a good reading habit and keep organized reading notes regularly
• Purchase and read books from the reading lists

Korean language and Literature

Teacher: Keon Yang

Unit Title: Understanding community

Concepts

Key Concept: Perspectives

Related Concepts: point of view, self-ex

ATL skills:

Thinking skill-creative thinking 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: Music in History

Concepts:

Key Concept: Change

Related Concepts: Role

ATL skills:

Research

1. Information literacy skills

Finding, interpreting, judging and creating information

• Make connections between various sources of information
• Identify primary and secondary sources

VII. Media literacy skills

Interacting with media to use and create ideas and information

• Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats

Help your child by:

Encourage your children to listen to various styles of music such as: Renaissance, Baroques, Classical, Romantic, Modern, Jazz, Pop (which will be covered in class) and various other sub-genres. Discuss why you think different eras brought forth different styles of music in human history.  You might also like to share your favourite music with your children and try to find out more about their favourite music too.

For instruments, ask them about what they are learning and doing in class. Encourage them to keep trying their best and practice at home.

Design

Teachers:

Unit Title: Promoting Productivity through Creative Design

Concepts:

Key Concepts: Systems

Related Concepts: Function

ATL skills:

Social

1. Collaboration skills

Working effectively with others

• Listen actively to other perspectives and ideas

Self-management

III. Organization skills

Managing time and tasks effectively

• Set goals that are challenging and realistic

Thinking

VIII. Critical thinking skills

Analysing and evaluating issues and ideas

• Revise understanding based on new information and evidence
• Identify trends and forecast possibilities

Help your child by:

• During this unit, students have chosen to promote productivity through creative design. Based on the product of their choice, they will be learning a new set of skills. All the resources will be provided based on the requirement. Please have a talk with them and support them in research and acquiring the skills.
• Please go through the lesson plans on a timely basis and make sure the student will complete the tasks on time.

Visual Art

Teachers:  Leena Nothoo

Unit Title:  Stop-Motion Animation

Concepts:

Key Concept: Communication

Related Concepts: Audience

 ATL Skills: Self-management; research

Help your child by: Checking work done, ask them to read the lesson plan and be prepared for the coming lesson.

Physical and Health Education

Teacher: Hakim Halim

Unit Title: Health and Fitness Management: Sports Coaching

Concepts:

Key Concepts: Development

Related Concepts: Interaction

ATL skills:

Self-management (Organization skills)

Managing time and tasks effectively

• Plan short- and long-term assignments; meet deadlines
• Keep and use a weekly planner for assignments
• Set goals that are challenging and realistic

Research (Information literacy skills, Media literacy skills)

Finding, interpreting, judging and creating information

• Make connections between various sources of information
• Create references and citations, use footnotes/endnotes and construct abibliography according to recognised conventions

Interacting with media to use and create ideas and information

• Make informed choices about personal viewing experiences
• Seek a range of perspectives from multiple and varied sources

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

Theatre

Teacher: Engela Potgieter

Unit Title: Poor Theatre Practices – Voice and Movement

Concepts:

Key Concepts: Aesthetics

Related Concepts: Innovation, Presentation

ATL skills:

Social

• Collaboration skills
• Working effectively with others
• Manage and resolve conflict and work collaboratively in teams

Self-management

• Organization skills
• Managing time and tasks effectively
• Keep an organized and logical system of information files/notebooks

Research

• Information literacy skills
• Finding, interpreting, judging and creating information
• Access information to be informed and inform others
• Make connections between various sources of information

Thinking

• Creative thinking skills
• Generating novel ideas and considering new perspectives
• Make unexpected or unusual connections between objects and/or ideas

Help your child by: Practicing their lines at home.