MYP Language and Literature Overview
Course: English I
Unit Title | Concepts | Global Context | Statement of Inquiry |
Telling the Story | Communication, self-expression, character | Identities and relationships | Self-expression is a way to communicate how moral reasoning and ethical judgment shapes a character. |
Familial & Societal Relationships | Communities, theme, context | Fairness and development | Contextual information shows how an author’s idea of power and privilege can influence a universal theme throughout cultures and communities. |
Research | Global interaction, perspective, purpose, causality | Fairness and development | Multiple perspectives can be used to understand and evaluate the response of the global community to occurrences of conflict and genocide. |
The Power of Prejudice | Connections, intertextuality, point of view, purpose | Orientation in time and space | Authors use historical events and other pieces of literature to enhance their own text and to create a universal theme. |
Course: English II
Unit Title | Concepts | Global Context | Statement of Inquiry |
Character Reveals Theme | Communities, character, theme | Personal and cultural expression | Critical readers and writers create connections within short stories and novels regarding character, structure, and literary devises such as images, symbol, motif, and tone. |
Literary Analysis | Communities, identity, theme, character | Identities and relationships | Students will be able to synthesize how multiple authors develop a common theme. |
The Power of Persuasion | Logic, purpose, structure | Fairness and development | Students understand that a structure containing logic and structured purpose help ensure fairness and development. |
Course: Journalism
Unit Title | Concepts | Global Context | Statement of Inquiry |
News Writing | Form, structure, purpose, style | Personal and cultural expression | Journalists have lots of tools that can be used to report the news in a way that engages their readers and effectively and accurately communicates information. |
Ethics in Writing | Perspective, purpose, structure | Fairness and development | Journalists must act in ethical ways in order to gain and keep the public’s trust. |