MYP Language Acquisition
Course: Chinese I
Unit Title | Concepts | Global Context | Statement of Inquiry |
Nice to Meet You | Communication, patterns, meaning | Identities and relationships | How do you greet others and identify yourself in Chinese? |
What Time is It? | Communication; time, place and space | Orientation in time and space | Numbers and Dates in Chinese are more than a quantity or time, they are deeply tied to cultural stories and history. |
My Family | Communities, audience, conventions | Identities and relationships | Visiting friends and family in the Chinese-speaking world requires you to understand the audience to apply appropriate conventions of the language. |
Course: Chinese II
Unit Title | Concepts | Global Context | Statement of Inquiry |
Starting a New School Year | Communication, conventions, patterns | Identities and relationships | Learning to what identifies and defines us to others allows one to maintain previous relationships and develop new ones. |
Moving to a New School | Communities, audience, conventions | Identities and relationships | Visiting friends and family in the Chinese-speaking world requires you to understand the audience to apply appropriate conventions of the language. |
Settling Into a New Home | Time, place and space; convention, purpose | Orientation in time and space | Knowing Chinese opens doors to opportunities to meet more people and see another side of the world Purpose and conventions of Chinese shape space and time. The way something is said and the grammar is used shapes space and time in Chinese. |
Course: Spanish I
Unit Title | Concepts | Global Context | Statement of Inquiry |
Who Am I? | Identity, function, patterns | Identities and relationships | Patterns in language can help us communicate about our identities and enables us to build relationships with others based on common likes/dislikes, hobbies and pastimes. |
Family Structure | Culture, patterns | Personal and cultural expression | We all have biases that come from our families and friends, but ultimately we all belong to a larger community that shares commonalities. |
Travel and Leisure | Culture, word choice, empathy | Identities and relationships | Exploring cultures other than our own with an open mind can open our eyes to new relationships and deeper understanding of ourselves and others. |
Natural Phenomena | Global interaction, communication, word choice | Scientific and technical innovation | The significance of weather and how it is communicated impacts our lifestyle. |
Fashion & Design | Identity, purpose, meaning | Identities and relationships | Style is a reflection of ones identity, which is tied to culture. |
Social Conscience | Global interaction, meaning, audience | Scientific and technical innovation | Audience and meaning can impact global interaction. |
?A Donde Vas? | Connections, bias, inference, POV | Identities and relationships | We can better understand others and make inferences about their preferences or identity based on their bias or point of view (perspective). |
Course: Spanish II
Unit Title | Concepts | Global Context | Statement of Inquiry |
Self Image | Identity, context, word choice | Identities and relationships | How I perceive myself and how others perceive me is influenced by my culture and the society that I live in. |
La Cultura de Una Familia | Culture, functions, pattern | Identities and relationships | Family connections and culture shape both identities and relationships. |
En la Cocino de Miabuela | Communication, conventions | Personal and cultural expression | Perspectives on relationships are shaped by culture. |
Un Viaje al Extranjero | Global interaction, message, purpose | Orientation in time and space | Message and purpose of language affect human impact on the environment |