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1. Mya Freeman laughs at Jason Cho’ s presentation about advertisement. Students had to individually create their own advertisement and explain it to classmates. 2. Lael Lassmann works on her OPCVL exposing different websites about Civil War. OPCVL stands for Origin Purpose Value Limitations and it is used to help students explore and identify the values and limitation of the sources. 3. Timmy Lee works and corrects the mistakes that he made in grammar practice sheet. MYP English 3A / 3B is a small class for students who speak English as their second language. 4. Ethan Baek helps Junseok Kim solving math practice sheet. In Mrs. Choi’ s math class, students help one and each others, suggesting different solutions. 5. Ethan Park listens to Ms. Muss introducing to new unit, which were economics and environment. Their unit consisted of a research paper
History is a means to gain a deeper understanding about the world. The Individuals and Societies( I & S) program has empowered students with an ability to connect their knowledge to their academics, passions, and identity.
Students consider knowledge of history to be crucial to their learning.“ History allows me to improve later on as a learner. History connects with other subjects, such as English,” Jason Cho affirmed.
In areas such as Literature, having knowledge about the setting of a book enhances its value. Mrs. Amy Evans’ eighth grade literature class studied inspirations. Mrs. Evans strongly emphasized her belief in the importance of history, saying,“ I feel like we better understand literature when we understand the context in which it is set. From history and stories, we can learn about life, relationships and choices.”
For many students, history’ s significance transcends academic benefits, permeating into aspects of life as well. For Jude Joung, the I & S unit on Korean history gave him a greater appreciation for his culture.“ It just gives me a better understanding about the country that I’ m currently living in,” he said.
Ananya Santhosh saw I & S as a means to learn cautionary tales and prevent future mistakes. She said,“ It [ I & S ] helps me know how something in the past can make us know more about the future.” Perhaps Sarah Baek best summarized this passion for learning about history:“ You get to think with weapons in your hand: knowledge and the ability to think critically about an issue.”
on economic problems that is caused by the environmental issue they chose. 6. Daniel Jeon and Hanjoo Bae discuss about major events during the Civil War. The
students explored different perspectives of the Civil war, later to write an OPCVL report.
7. Mrs. Evans checks Matthew Lee’ s progress with Noredink, which is an online language-learning program for students in grade 4 through 12. Noredink is usually done as bellringer to build students grammar skills.
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