MYP5 November – January 2023 Overview

English Language and Literature

Teacher: Mr. Ridolfo

Unit Title:
Through the Eyes of Maus:
The Past & Present Intertwined

Concepts:
KC: Perspective
RC: Character, Intertextuality, Point of view, Structure

ATL skills:
Communication, 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:

Ms. Cathy Ph 3 /4
Mr. Welch Ph 5 /6

Unit Title: eAssessments and Good Health

Concepts:
KC: Development
RC: Purpose, Argument and Context

ATL skills: Communication and Thinking

Help your child by: Encouraging them to read every night along with checking their homework. Allow them to be mindful of different perspectives when having discussions in class.

Individuals & Societies

Teacher: Na Meng

Unit Title: Development: How can developing countries successfully increase standards of living?

Concepts:
KC: Development
RC: Equity; Resources

ATL skills:
Communication skills:
· Make effective summary notes for studying
· Read critically and for comprehension
· Make inferences and draw conclusions
· Read a variety of sources for information and for pleasure
· Find information for disciplinary and interdisciplinary inquiries, using a variety of media
Information literacy skills:
· Access information to be informed and inform others
Media literacy skills:
· Compare, contrast and draw connections among (multi)media resources
Critical-thinking skills:
· Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues
· Consider ideas from multiple perspectives

Help your child by:
Encourage your kids to discuss the current world events with you from different perspectives.

Check their notebooks and make sure they take notes of unfamiliar words and review what they have learned regularly

Mathematics

Teacher:

Tanapat (Ice) Treyanurak

Unit Title:
Lets Move It: Transformational Geometry
Concepts:
KC: Form
RC: Representation, Space

ATL skills:
Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations Use brainstorming and visual diagrams to generate new ideas and inquiries

Help your child by:
Ask them to explain the digit transformation project to you.
Encourage daily IXL use (15-45 minutes)

Chinese Language and Literature

Teacher :

Sophia Suo and Matthew Lu

Unit Title: The way novels create characters-Bel-Ami
Concepts
KC: Perspective
RC: Character, Setting
ATL skills: Communication skills

Help your child by reading, writing and analyzing the book Bel-Ami, to improve understanding on how setting and characters work in novels and help the author conveys his perspective to the reader.

Art

Teacher: Scott Ramon

Unit Title:
Thought and Actions (Performance & Conceptual Art)

Concepts
KC:
Aesthetics, Communication, & Development

RC:
Boundaries, Expression, Interpretation, Visual culture

ATL skills:
Research

Help your child by:
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.

Design

Teacher:

Tracy Shi

Unit Title:
Designing for Vulnerable Communities

Concepts:
KC:
Communities

RC:
Resources

ATL skills:
Communication, Research, and Thinking

Help your child by:
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.

Physical and Health Education

Teacher:

Kevin McGarry

Unit Title: Aesthetic Movement: The Secret to Becoming Better at All Sports?

Concepts:
KC: Development
RC: Refinement, Movement

ATL skills: Social Skills
Working effectively with others
Help others to succeed
Make fair and equitable decisions

Chinese Language and Acquisition
Teachers:

Emma Yang – Phase 1

Unit Title: Nature unity

Concepts:
KC: Communication
RC: Audience, Context

ATL skills: Communication, Organization skills, Critical thinking skills

Help your child by:
1.Check the completion of homework
2.Ask what he was learnt today
3.Check the notebook regarding class notes

Chinese Language and Acquisition

Teacher:
Momo Li – Phase 3

Unit Title: Nature unity

Concepts:
KC: Connection
RC: Audience, Purpose

ATL skills: Communication, Organization skills, Critical thinking skills

Help your child by:
1.Practicing listening, reading and writing to show their concern for our environment. Help them to understand and get main information from oral speech or news.
2.Enlarging vocabulary about the nature such as seasons, weather and nature, and encourage them to be involved in community service and take actions to protect environment and our planet.
3.Supporting them to illustrate their ideas and concerns about global issues and can understand sentences and short passages related to this topic. (Link with SDG)