TOK connections
CAS connections
Check the boxes for any explicit TOK connections made during the unit
Check the boxes for any explicit CAS connections. If you check any of
the boxes, provide a brief note in the “details” section explaining how
students engaged in CAS for this unit.
Personal and shared knowledge
Creativity
Ways of knowing
Activity
Areas of knowledge
Service
The knowledge framework
Explicit connections to Ways of knowing and areas of knowledge; The study
of significant global issues through the study of the poems of Carol Ann
Duffy’s poems and the bodies of non-literary work make the students
ponder over the following knowledge issues:
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How does language implicate our thoughts and expressions?
To what extent is the existing societal beliefs validated by written
expression?
How are our values and attitudes concretized through linguistic
choices in a written expression?
Under what circumstances social justice becomes relative?
What roles do emotion and sense perception play in accepting new
knowledge?
What role does language in written expression play in undermining
our confidence in the shared knowledge?
What implications does the written expression have in the
formation of our perceptions?
To what extent does language limit or widen our perspectives?
Creativity and service are the explicit CAS connections.
Through this unit, they understand the plights of the subaltern; hence
when they do service activities with the underprivileged or with the
physically / mentally challenged, they are motivated to listen to their
perspectives to apply and reflect on what they have learned in the
poems and in the Non-literary texts about culture and identity.
Their learner portfolios afford them opportunities for creative
expressions as a form of their application of knowledge acquired from
the poems – in terms of creation of magazine articles / blogs / diary
entries / website content etc.