Term 1 Week 7 Blog

Year 7&8 Weekly Blog

 

Language & Literature 

This week in Language and Literature class the learners have worked on their 2nd Summative Assessment Task. The children had to create a Google Slide presentation relating to a TV programme. The learners had to analyse viewership, ratings, and investment advertisements as part of their summative assessment project. For next week the learners will begin exploring the concepts that they will be learning about in Unit 2. For Unit 2 the children will be exploring, analysing, and identifying different styles of poems and play scripts from the Elizabethan Era. They will pay special attention to the works created by William Shakespeare. 

Individuals & Society

For this week the learners have shared with the class their presentations on air pollution, wild fires and forced child labor. They have also shared their action plans on how they would intend on resolving these issues in Thailand. For next week the children will be introduced to their next unit on belief systems and will explore a little bit about each of the 5 major religious of the world. 

Maths

Students have started on their summative assessment tasks this week. The first activity involves solving equations that follow a pattern described by an unknown operation. Students apply existing knowledge to investigate what operation will produce the pattern described by each equation. The following summative assessment will involve solving problems that will be used to evaluate students' understanding of the order of numerical operations.

Science

Students received their summative assignments for the first unit last week in science and should be completing them this week. Students have recently completed a lab activity which inquired into the rate of heating during changes of state. Students set up the experiment, collected data and graphed the results. Evaluation of the data will involve understanding how energy is transferred during a change of state. The new science lab will enable students to actively explore concepts in science on a regular basis.

Homework 

Each MYP classroom teacher will be assigning their homework via Google Classroom. The children should be reading for at least 20 minutes per day. In Week 8 the learners will begin reading a new novel. The learners should continue to complete any incomplete classwork for homework and submit it via Google Classroom in order to receive teacher feedback. EAL learners will have their own reading to do from Ms. Liza.