Teacher(s)
Jonathan Delgado
Subject group and discipline
Language Acquisition English
Unit title
More Than Words♫
MYP year
IV
Unit duration (hrs)
120hrs
Inquiry: Establishing the purpose of the unit
Key concept
Related concept(s)
Global context
Connections
Theme, point of view, empathy
Identities and Relationships
Statement of inquiry
Myths, legends and folk tales connect people across the world, using universal themes that express traditions, beliefs and values.
Inquiry questions
Factual— What are some elements common to myths, legends and folk tales
Conceptual— What can I learn from a myth? How can contexts change the meaning of words? How does culture evolve through the years?
Debatable— Are myths universally true?
Which of the followings has a deeper impact in culture change and why? Music, Social Networks, Technology, Fashion, Globalization, others…
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Objectives
Criterion D: ii.Using language in spoken and written
form. Students will organize information and ideas
into a structure text, iii students will uselanguage to
suit the context.
Criterion C: Communicating in response to
spoken, written and visual text. Ii.Students
engage in rehearsed and unrehearsed exchanges
to share ideas on topics of personal and global
significance. Iv. They communicate with a sense
of audience and purpose.
Summative assessment
Outline of summative assessment task(s) including
assessment criteria:
Relationship between summative assessment task(s)
and statement of inquiry:
Students will take the role of book editor and use the
characteristics of either a folk tale (urban legend), a
myth and a legend in order to create story and present
it in a pop up book. Their work will be presented and
explained to the class (audience).10% by Tues 18th
Students will demonstrate their understanding on the
topics seen by creating their own myths, legends or
folk tales in a pop up book.
Students will research a myth from around the world
and write an alternate ending to it and adapt it to a
modern version. Students will present it to a younger
class through acting, music and a Power Point
Presentation. 30 % by Nov 25th
The students will demonstrate their receptive abilities
by viewing and responding to a folktale and reflecting
on how folktales connect cultures across the world.
Students will take the Oxford TCC Exam. 10 %
Approaches to learning (ATL)
Organization
• time and self management
Communication
Communication skills: Reading, writing and using language to gather and communicate information
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• Read critically and for comprehension
• Make inferences and draw conclusions
Social
Collaboration skills: Working effectively with others
• Listen actively to other perspectives and ideas
Self management
Organisation skills
• time and self management
Research
Information literacy skills: Finding, interpreting, judging and creating information
• Access information to be informed and inform others
• Make connections between various sources of information
Thinking
Transfer skills: Utilizing skills and knowledge in multiple contexts
• Apply skills and knowledge in unfamiliar situations
Action: Teaching and learning through inquiry
Content
Learning process
Understand the features of a myth, legend, or
Learning experiences and teaching strategies
folktale such as:
•Define a myth, legend and folktale
• Happened in the past and passed down from
•Read examples of each that reinforce the:
generation to generation
•definition of myth, legend and folktale
• Didactic
culture components within each
• Used to explain an action, event, tradition or
•Discuss and expand on the idea of myths, legends, and folktales as a way of transmitting cultural beliefs
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value
Classroom work, homework/projects, assessments
• Structured like a story with a purpose and a
Classroom work
beginning, middle and end
•Daily instruction coupled with teacher feedback
• Doesn’t necessary have a coherent chronology
•introduce lesson objects / lesson question
• Belongs to the fantasy genre
•access prior knowledge
Communicate ideas and opinions about culture and
•introduce/model new task(s)
myths, legends and folktales
•practice new concepts (application)
Identify the beliefs or values found in a myth, legend
•summarize
or folktale
•explain homework
Extend knowledge of the culture of the target
language
Reinforce vocabulary related to culture and
traditions, as well as some expressions and an
idiom for telling a story.
• review key grammar (teacher’s choice) as needed
- Inferring meaning, feelings and attitudes from
examples of personal narratives.
• Draw conclusions from examples of
personal narratives
Formative assessment
General formative written and / or speaking assessments of relevant foundational concepts that will allow
students
to respond to the unit question
• respond to a written text (myth, legend and/or folktale
• oral presentation (individual or in small groups of two or three) of a myth, legend and/or folktale that the rest
of
the class has read, that points out the structures and cultural components studied in the unit.
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Differentiation
• Provide links from students experience to key concepts by using definitions, analogies, attributes,
characteristics, morphemes, and first-hand experience depending on the amount of students' prior knowledge.
• Pre-teach vocabulary
• Collaborative group work
• Provide conceptual frameworks such as graphic organizers and unit overviews
Resources
Internet, iPads, projector, schoology, textbook, library.
Reflection: Considering the planning, process and impact of the inquiry
Prior to teaching the unit
During teaching
After teaching the unit
This unit is design to connect the global, key and
related context to student’s prior knowledge of myths,
legends and folk tales, it is excpected for students to
contribute from their personal experiences in order to
share ideas, concepts and knowledge. This unit is
intended to be linked cross-curricularily to other
subjects.
Students found interesting the connections between
the myths and legends around the world which
contributed to the impact of inquiry. The third
assessment task could be made bigger in future
years.
Students gained a sense of understanding for the
elements of folktales, myths and legends which
prepares them for the next unit.
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