Unit title: Structures for Success
Key Concept: Communication
Related concepts: Cooperation, Significance
Global context (exploration): Identities & Relationships, Competition & Cooperation
Statement of inquiry: An individual’s significance within a community is often determined by their ability to work cooperatively with others, even when in the context of a competitive environment.
Inquiry questions:
Factual: What are the different types of communities that an individual can belong to?
Conceptual: What characteristics and qualities are required to achieve significance?
Debatable: Is cooperation more important than independence?
Summative Assessment Task: Expository Structure I.B. Literacy Building
Criterion D: Thinking Critically
i. identify the main points of ideas
ii. use information to give an opinion and make an effective summary
iii. identify and analyze a range of sources in terms of origin and purpose
IB Learner Profile Traits: Communicator, Reflective
Key Concept: Communication
Related concepts: Cooperation, Significance
Global context (exploration): Identities & Relationships, Competition & Cooperation
Statement of inquiry: An individual’s significance within a community is often determined by their ability to work cooperatively with others, even when in the context of a competitive environment.
Inquiry questions:
Factual: What are the different types of communities that an individual can belong to?
Conceptual: What characteristics and qualities are required to achieve significance?
Debatable: Is cooperation more important than independence?
Summative Assessment Task: Expository Structure I.B. Literacy Building
- Primary versus secondary sources
- Text features
- Skim and scan/Annotating
- Determining relevant main points
- Identifying organizational structures
- Main idea
- Concise summary
- Source Credibility/Reflection: Was this source reliable? Relevant?
- I.B. Learner Profile Analysis
Criterion D: Thinking Critically
i. identify the main points of ideas
ii. use information to give an opinion and make an effective summary
iii. identify and analyze a range of sources in terms of origin and purpose
IB Learner Profile Traits: Communicator, Reflective