2nd MYP Assessment - Journal of a Child in an LEDC

Everyone who completed their letter to the newspaper did an amazing job - I am very impressed!

Our second MYP assessment, due Thursday the 17th of March, will be on the following:

Research an LEDC and write a journal as a child (ages 3-18) living in an LEDC.  Please select one of your LEDC's from the following list, obtained from the UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States.

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democractic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea, Buinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nepal, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Yemen and Haiti.


Things you may want to inculde are:

1. What type of dwelling do you live in?
2. Do you reside in a rural or urban area?
1. What types of shops/places are located in your town?  Do you have hospitals and lots of doctors - if not, what do you do if you get sick?  Are you somewhere that people from MEDC's come for travel, i.e., living somewhere with mostly foreign owned restaurants and hotels?
3. What sort of food do you eat?
4. Do you go to school?  If so, what kind?  What sort of supplies do you have?
5. Do you or your parents work?  If so, what type of work do you/they do?
6. Do you have a lot of siblings  If so, what is life like living with them?
7. What are your dreams and aspirations for when you grow up?
8. Do you feel safe where you live?
9. What are the demographics like in your area?

Depending on if you have A, B or C you will write the following:
A:  a week's worth of entries
B:  5 days worth of entries
C:  3 days worth of entries

But feel free to write more if you wish!



This assignment is due at the beginning of class by the 17th of March. No late papers will be accepted.

Unit 3 - World Development!

Today was the beginning of our new unit on World Development!  Already we've had some agruments over which countries to consider "rich" and "poor".  As one could say, that's debatable!

We will be learning a lot during this unit, including how one can measure development.  We'll be looking at what development is, how to measure development (there are many, many ways), which countries are considered developed, what patterns o development exist (if any), what life is like in an LEDC, how people are connected in LEDC and MEDCs, and how people can help others in developing countries.

Some fun activities during this unit to look forward to:

1.  Discussion with a former NGO worker
2.  Mock trial
3.  NGO marketing campaign
3.  Mock international assembly to discuss the rights to water
4.  -Possible- discussion with an insider to water purifications in developing nations (stay tuned!)



!!!!!!!!   Tonight's homework:  Development Matrix

Students have been given a matrix of five countries (Japan, Brazil, Italy, Kenya and the UK) along with 10 criteria for measuring development.  They have been asked to go to CIA's World Factbook to find out information pertaining to each country.  We will discuss our findings tomorrow and analyse if this criteria really can determine (or help us determine) whether or not a country is developed.

Unit 2 Summative Assessment

Please note that all students will be given a handout of the following information, as well as information on the MLA format.  I will also e-mail the students' NLIS e-mail addresses with the information, in case they misplace the handouts.

Due Date:  Tuesday, 1 February 2011

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Unit Two Summative Assessment

You are required to compose your own personal response to this question:

How revolutionary was the Industrial Revolution?

You will be assessed against all four criteria:

• Criterion A:  knowledge:  This will be assessed by looking at proper usage of Industrial Revolution-related terminology, facts and examples used to describe impacts of the Industrial Revolution, and accurate and detailed explanations of those impacts.
• Criterion B:  concepts:  This will be assessed by looking at how you analyse the changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution and how it affected people around the world.
• Criterion C:   skills:   This will be assessed by looking at how well you research your project and how you analyse information. 
• Criterion D:   organization and presentation:        This will be assessed by how well your write your project.  This project should be completed in MLA style.  

!!  For more information about MLA style format, consult the MLA handout or the following web address from Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab:  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

As you work through your response, you are advised to follow this route:

1. Define “revolution”
• Layout your own criteria by which something can earn the designation “revolution”
• Be careful though – things need to do far more than “change” to be described as being a revolution!

2. Measure the various aspects of the industrial revolution against these criteria
• Do all criteria need to be met to earn the designation?
• What method of measurement are you going to use?

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Your finished article should look something like this:

• HEADLINE
• Introduction – your thesis
• Revolution – your criteria of measurement
• Aspects – which aspects of the Industrial Revolution do, and do not, meet your criteria.  This section must include full explanations and evidence.
• Conclusion
• You MUST support your article with at last two charts of figures/statistics and two relevant illustrations.

Inventors and Inventions Project: Who was Britain's BEST Inventor During the Industrial Revolution?

The last week and half before winter break, 9G worked on a very intense research project.  After researching a British inventor, the students had to write a campaign speech, as well as create a campaign poster for their inventor.  After all the students completed their speeches, the students voted for the inventor they thought was the most important during the Industrial Revolution.

Everyone who presented did a wonderful job!  Overall, the speeches were really good and I was doubly impressed with how well everyone focused and paid attention to their fellow classmates.  Great job!  Even the English B students, who are learning English, participated in some of the research project by completing a written speech and campaign poster.  I hope everyone enjoyed the project as much as I did.

Below are two campaign posters by 9G students.  I will be hanging them all in room D6 on Tuesday.

British Inventors of the Industrial Revolution Project!

Introduction:

Who was the best inventor during the Industrial Revolution?  What is a campaign?  How can you use a campaign to persuade your classmates to think your candidate is the best?

For this assignment you will create a campaign and debate as one of the following inventors:

Richard Arkwright, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Henry Bessemer, Michael Faraday, George Stephenson, James Watt, Samuel Crompton, James Brindley, Abraham Darby I,  Thomas Telford, John McAdam, Alexander Graham Bell and Humphry David.

Your overall goal is convince the class that your candidate is the best patriot and should therefore be voted the "Best British Inventor" in the Global Inventor Hall of Fame Museum.  The best way to accomplish this goal is to create an attractive campaign poster and recite a convincing campaign speech which highlights your candidate's accomplishments!!

 

Please note that WIKIPEDIA is not a viable, legitimate source for this assignment.  You must use other sources.  

To get you started, please find the following links helpful:*

1. Richard Arkwright
2. Isambard Kindgom Brunel
3. Henry Bessemer
4. Michael Faraday 
5. George Stephenson
6. James Watt
7. Samuel Crompton
8. James Brindley
9. Abraham Darby I
10. Thomas Telford
11. John McAdam
12. Alexander Graham Bell
13. Humphry Davy

*This list is not meant to be exclusive nor exhaustive!