IBDP Unit 1 Overview English B

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  1. Hello everyone welcome to unit one identities for life. This as our first unit in I.
  2. B. D. P. English be higher level.
  3. Now today we will be looking at a quick overview of the unit.
  4. This unit is based off of our oxford textbook.
  5. Inside the textbook you'll find the name of this unit along with
  6. the subtitles of the smaller sections that we will be going over
  7. throughout this unit.
  8. We'll be looking at the following topics lifestyle, health and well being.
  9. The main research question that we will be
  10. focusing on and discussing throughout our lessons in
  11. this unit will be what ideas and images do we associate with a healthy lifestyle.
  12. This brings us in
  13. to really consider how a healthy lifestyle defines us and our identities?
  14. What aspects of a healthy lifestyle matter to us? What do we choose on a daily basis?
  15. Both physically and mentally to embrace.
  16. This is a picture again about the textbook that you should have and be using
  17. throughout our course sessions and at home before you review for the external exam.
  18. It's crucial that you have this textbook.
  19. Some of the additional questions that will be exploring in this unit
  20. will be how can physical exercise contribute to our well being?
  21. How do young adults deal with the stress in their lives?
  22. How do we become healthy adults
  23. forming and reflecting on these questions will be relating them to our theory
  24. of knowledge classes and different subjects across the spectrum that we take?
  25. Um through our high school years
  26. throughout the unit will be creating and looking at a
  27. photo gallery of what kind of constitutes a healthy lifestyles.
  28. Um sometimes we might have a different,
  29. different opinion on certain aspects of a healthy lifestyle um
  30. or what we choose to do on a daily basis.
  31. Some of us may do it, some of us may not, some of us may be striving to vial of,
  32. I have tried it and replaced it with
  33. something else that can still constitute as healthy,
  34. but something that kind of fits their own schedules and own needs um and interests.
  35. So we'll be looking at that both in the
  36. textbook and creating our own along with people bringing
  37. um certain posters or certain ads that you see
  38. that we can also analyze and take a look at
  39. here are some examples.
  40. I just want to bring attention to the
  41. fact that a healthy lifestyle isn't only physical,
  42. it's also mental.
  43. We'll be talking about mental health and looking
  44. at the texts that discuss it as well.
  45. So throughout this unit we'll be working a lot on our communication skills.
  46. Under these communication skills fall categories
  47. um called listening skills for instance,
  48. we're gonna be working on our receptive and productive listening skills.
  49. Second is oral and interactive skills will be working on this
  50. through the presentations in the class discussions that will be conducting.
  51. Um you'll be engaging in writing of course in this unit. Right?
  52. So that will be in the form of journal entries, personal letters, emails.
  53. Some of us may even want to challenge ourselves and create our own advertisements
  54. or flyers or different ways of expressing non of writing nonfiction texts right?
  55. Um to present the theme of healthy lifestyles. So
  56. there will be different ways and categories and genres
  57. that fit this underlying theme of a healthy lifestyle.
  58. You will also use research skills for your practice presentations.
  59. For instance in the first couple of lessons will actually be reading a part of a
  60. newspaper article and using that as a basis
  61. to research more articles that are credible.
  62. Um And we'll be talking about credibility to create a power
  63. point presentation about healthy lifestyles and work on our presentation skills
  64. right through that creation that we are showing our classmates and
  65. teacher templates will also be provided for drafting and planning stages.
  66. So you'll find that in your textbook in on B. C.
  67. And throughout our class sessions I'll be showing you those in those frameworks.
  68. So this unit really requires you to think outside the box
  69. since you are considering things about your own daily life.
  70. Looking at texts that present opinions where they justify their claims and
  71. you're being really creative especially when
  72. you're practicing these paper one responses.
  73. So when we're creating emails um for a certain theme
  74. or under a certain prompt or writing the letter.
  75. All of these are paper one practices for your external exam.
  76. You need to be creative because you put in your own thoughts and your own details to
  77. create something in this genre or in this framework
  78. that they're requiring you to become proficient in.
  79. Um, I also want to encourage you to really um come out, you know,
  80. read a lot of a lot of material that has to do with these things so that you can be
  81. able to um include and incorporate a lot of facts
  82. in details in your presentations and in your written responses.
  83. Um,
  84. one of the biggest things to remember in this unit is to always justify your claims.
  85. Um, this is just the first step into later on developing, you know,
  86. bigger arguments and literary arguments where you always
  87. have to find evidence for your claims in the text and even in your, you know,
  88. even in in in the emails and letters that you might
  89. kind of find to be simple and straight to the point,
  90. there always has to be a justification.
  91. It always has to your reason if you're, you know,
  92. arguing or trying to convince someone to do something
  93. or kind of educate them about a matter.
  94. So that's what I encourage you guys to do a lot is to always be, you know,
  95. um kind of aware of the fact that
  96. you not only also have to justify your claims,
  97. but when it comes to literary evidence later on, you have to say how it functions,
  98. why it's important why certain authors make those choices.
  99. So you look at the bigger picture and you really think outside
  100. the box rather than being so limited and kind of constricted to,
  101. you know, a certain way.
  102. Um
  103. that's pretty much it for what will be kind of doing in unit one.
  104. Just a quick synopsis of it, of course, will be going into greater detail again.
  105. Again,
  106. please make sure you have your textbook and you're making um
  107. use of the BC lessons that are posted along with the videos
  108. that are also posted for you guys to review um after class
  109. or before class if you want to get a head start,
  110. thank you. And I look forward to having a good time as we engage in this unit.