MYP5 February – April 2023 Overview

In homeroom students are busy juggling three big projects: their own Personal Project, Mental Health Day preparations, and the combined MYP5 assembly.

Students are taking a social approach to learning (ATL) with a particular focus on practicing empathy and encouraging others to contribute.

Help your child by asking them about their Personal Project, their role in Mental Health day, and their ideas for the MYP5 assembly.

English Language and Literature

Teacher:

Mr. Ridolfo

Unit Title:
From Script to Screen: Creating & Analyzing Film

Concepts:

KC: Communication

RC: Audience imperatives, Purpose

ATL skills:

Self-management, Research, Thinking

Help your child by:

Have them read a variety of texts. Support them as they choose texts 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.

English Language Acquisition:

Teachers:

Phase 3 & 4: Ms. Cathy Qiang

Phase 5 & 6: Mr. Randy Welch

Unit Title: Why does film matter?
Concepts:

KC: Culture

RC: Conventions, Point of View, Purpose, Word choice

ATL skills:

Communication skills (summarize, describe, and evaluate a film in both oral and written form)

Thinking skills (consider multiple perspectives, and apply existing knowledge to create product)

Help your child by:

• Practice conversations about film
• Encourage to read movie review
• Watch English film and practice to discuss about it

Individuals & Societies

Teachers:

Ms. Na

Unit Title: In what ways does globalization affect us?

Concepts:

KC: Global interaction

RC: Equity, Globalization, Resources

ATL skills:

Research skills(Information literacy skills; Media literacy skills)

Thinking skills (Critical thinking)

Help your child by:

Have them read news and discuss the global issues from different perspectives.

Science

Teacher:

Mr. Kelvin

Unit Title: Maintaining healthy system

Concepts: Systems

KC: balance

RC: function

ATL skills: Thinking

Critical thinking skills

Analysing and evaluating issues and ideas

• Develop contrary or opposing arguments
• Analyse complex concepts and projects into their constituent parts and synthesise them to create new understanding

Help your child by:

Checking their Science notebook and diaries regularly and remind the students to review the key concept regularly

Mathematics

Teachers:

Mr. Tanapat Treyanurak

Unit Title:
How Fast Is It Changing? Non-Linear Relationships

Key Concept – relationships

Related concepts – change, models

ATL skills:

Communication – writing for different purposes

Help your child by:

Encouraging them to spend time on “Recommended skills” on IXL. Encourage them to take notes on new skills they learn.

Chinese Language and Literature:

Teacher: Sophia Suo/ Eunice Hou

Unit Title: How are characters formed in drama?

Concepts

KC: Perspectives

RC: Character, setting

ATL skills: Thinking Skills& Communication Skills

Help your child by:

1. Learning a wide range of methods to improve literature analysis
2. Experiencing different drama scenario to enhance the understanding of texts
3. Exploring the relationships of the author, the texts and the readers.
4. Understanding how the drama created and how perspectives formed from the texts.

Visual Arts

Teacher: Scott Ramon

Unit Title:
The World Around Us (Art in the 21st Century)

Concepts:

KC: Change

RC: Presentation

ATL skills:

Research, Self Management, Thinking

Help your child by:

It is important that they practice strong self-management skills with this unit and update

Ask your student, “What is art and what can art be?” Engage in conversations about what you SEE everyday. It could be architecture, graphics on television, newspaper layout with text and image, car designs, colors that are used that affect our behaviors in advertisements, forms we  encounter, and of course art that we experience online or in a book. Also take your student to museums and galleries. Please have them practice their drawing skills in a sketchbook as much as possible. Have them take photographs with their phones. Get them to keep a diary or personal journal for ideas and feelings.

Music

Teacher: Nathan Kim

Unit Title: Art and the World

Concepts:

KC: Change

RC: Presentation

ATL skills: Create plans to prepare for summative assessments (examinations and performances)

Help your child by: Encouraging the development of skills that they will need to create music through practice and/or through meaningful feedback to their progress towards the completion of all tasks for the eportfolio

Chinese Language and Acquisition

Teachers: Emma Yang/ Momo Li

Phase 1

Unit Title: Media and Modern Communication

Concepts:

KC: Communication

RC: Conventions, Function

ATL skills:

Communication skill, research skill

Help your child by:

-Remind your kid to do regular review;

-Check your kid whether he completes the homework on time, and whether he understands the feedback from the teacher

-Talk randomly in Chinese and let him share what he learnt in this unit, new vocabulary, new grammar

Chinese Language and Acquisition

Teachers:  Momo Li

Phase 3

Unit Title: Media and Modern Communication

Concepts:

KC: Community

RC: Bias point of view

ATL skills:

Communication skill, research skill; thinking skills

Help your child by:

– Reviewing on topics which has close connection with student’s learning experience;

– Learning about how to describe different problems teenagers are facing with and how to organize sentences logically to illustrate ideas.

– Practicing reading and writing skills to check your kid’s understanding and language ability in expressing themselves.

Unit Title: Modern life

Concepts:

KC: Culture

RC: Self-expression, Structure

ATL skills: Thinking skills _ critical thinking

Help your child by:

• Encourage your kids to search out good poems and compare them with emotion of music or any other artistic genre.