MYP3 Lesson 14

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MYP3 Lesson 14

Have our attitudes to education changed over time?

You will be watching a video. Answer the following questions:

Video

Have our attitudes to education changed over time?

Video

What is the significance of the masks the children are wearing?

Have our attitudes to education changed over time?

Video

Some Theory

Paralinguistic features

Prosodic features

Lyrics

Have our attitudes to education changed over time?

Compare and contrast the presentation of the teacher in the video and that of Mrs Obinchu in The First Grader.

Unit 4

Can we guess what the future holds?

Unit 4

Writers of the genre of science fiction subvert our notions of space and time and creatively use futuristic settings to explore anxieties about our immediate and future contexts.

Can we guess what the future holds?

In this chapter, we will....

- Find out what the conventions of science fiction are.

- Explore how science fiction can be used to critique aspects of our own societies.

- Take action to help raise awareness about the plight of child soldiers.

Activity: En L'an 2000

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france-in-the-year-2000-1899-1910

1. What do the images predict about the future?

2. What do the images all have in common?

3. Do any of the ideas correspond with what life is like now?

4. Which is your favourite innovation and why?

5. What do these images suggest about how people perceive the future?

6. What do you think the world will be like in the future? Make some predictions!

7. What are the predictions inspired by or based on?

What do you know about science fiction?

Have you ever read science fiction books?

1. yes
2. no

What science fiction books/films/series do you know?

Why should we care about the future?

Let's read the following text.

"We are made wise not by the recollections of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

What is science fiction?

What are the conventions of science fiction?

part 1

part 2

Introducing our novel study

Ender's Game