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.

Homework Assignment - MYP assessed

!  Homework assignment due Wednesday, March 2nd!

This homework assignment will go into your MYP folders as part of ongoing formative assessments.  You will be assessed against the following MYP humanities criteria:

1.  A (knowledge and understanding),
2.  B (global awareness) and
3.  C (organisation and presentation). 

Your assignment: 

You have been learning a lot about world development in these past few weeks.  In fact, all of this information is helping you become a better educated global citizen. 

Part of our duty as informed global citizens is to speak out when we see an injustice.  It is, therefore, your assignment to write a letter to a newspaper highlighting the problem with unfair trade practices.  (You will not really write a newspaper, but rather, turn your letter into your teacher).

Be sure to include the key terms that you have learned during this unit.  Make sure you articulate the connections between LEDCs and MEDCs that lead to an unfairness in international trade.  Use examples!


Since this is an MYP assessment, late papers will not be accepted except in the case of an excused absence.



[For more information regarding the MYP humanities criteria, please visit pgs 34-37 at http://sps.k12.mo.us/pipkin/IBMYP/MYP_Guides/Humanities.pdf]

Homework - due Monday, February 7th

The homework for this week-end, due Monday the 7th of February, is on the topic of international development measures.  Students are to pick 4 different criteria (from those listed on their matrix) and think of both advantages and disadvantages for choosing each as a measure of international development. 

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.