MYP 5: (10Th Grade) Quick Overview

MYP 5: (10th grade) Quick Overview

1st Quarter: «Take care of yourself» (world health)

a. vocab = world sicknesses, symptoms, injuries, medical, hospital

b. grammar = commands, double object pronouns, transition words

c. verb review = present, passé composé, fut, cond

d. cultural = health epidemics in francophone countries

Criterion A (oral) = PSA of how to identify, treat, avoid sicknesses

Criterion B (written) = sickness in world & charities that help

Criterion C (vis.interpret) = graphique of % of sickness in world

Criterion D (reading) = Ebola outbreak in West Africa

2nd Quarter: «Take care of our World» (environment)

a. vocab= flora & fauna, endangered species, recycling, natural disasters

b. grammar = interrogative pronouns & adjectives

c. verb review = subjunctive

d. cultural = environmental problems in francophone countries

Criterion A (oral) = PSA recycling; PSA endangered animals

Criterion B (written) = cause/effect of weather due to climate change

Criterion C (vis.interpret) = graphique of environmental issues

Criterion D (reading) = Greenpeace, WHO, Médecins sans frontières

3rd Quarter: «A New World to Experience» (travel & culture)

a. vocab = food, fashion, music, art, dance, religion

b. grammar = demonstrative pronouns & adjectives

c. verb review = compound tenses

d. cultural = differences in francophone countries

Criterion A (oral) = present past trip to francophone country

Criterion B (written) = travel guide to francophone country

Criterion C (vis. interpret) = euros, clothing sizes, tableaux

Criterion D (reading) = composers, designers, chefs

4th Quarter: «An Old World to Explore» (history)

a. vocab = historical structures, monuments, historical terms

b. grammar = relative pronouns, possessive pronouns

c. verb review = passé simple (for recognition only)

d. cultural = chateaux, famous people, Asterix, Bayeux Tapestry…

Criterion A (oral) = famous character presentation in costume

Criterion B (written) = cause/effects from important hist. Event

Criterion C (vis.interpret) = lignes chronologiques

Criterion D (reading) = fables, Les Misérables (songs, film)

(can’t do all of these; I alternate each year)

la Gaule/Vercingétorix/Astérix/Julius Caesar; le Moyen Age/Jeanne d’Arc/Guillaume le Conquérant; la Renaissance/châteaux/Cyrano/La Fontaine & fables; la Révolution/Les Mis/la Terreur/Guillotine; Napoléon; WWI; WWII/D-Day/Normandy Beaches/la Résistance; Marché Commun/Union Européen

(can’t do all of these; I alternate each year)