MYP: Connecting to Language and Literature
Year 7
This term the Year 7s will be unpacking the Statement of Inquiry: The structure and form of the information we present about ourselves can reveal our true identity.
Students will soon be engaging in developing confidence in public speaking and communicating information about our interests and passions!
Year 8
This term, Year 8 students will be exploring the Unit ‘Liminalities of Choice and Security in Dystopian Fiction’. This Unit investigates the Statement of Inquiry: Setting and characters in dystopian fiction communicate ideas about authority, security and freedom.
Students will read and develop understanding of common themes used in Dystopian Fiction in the novel “The Giver” as well as developing conceptual knowledge about topics such as societies of control, genetic engineering and biopolitics.
They will use this knowledge to compare “The Giver” to another Dystopian Fiction of their personal choice. In the past, students have chosen classic novels such as “Brave New World, 1984” and “The Handmaid’s Tale”, while other students have compared the book to films such as “The Hunger Games”, “Fahrenheit 451” and “Brazil”.
Year 9
This term the Year 9 students will be exploring the Statement of Inquiry: Students understand that texts are socially, politically and historically constructed and determine the extent to which they explore universal themes.
In their exploration of “Macbeth”, students develop the skills and knowledge to critique and deconstruct the positioning of universal themes within canon literature to evaluate privilege, taste and the distribution of the sensible in Eurocentric culture. They complete a range of activities in an ongoing journal and construct an analytical essay at the end of term.
Year 10
Statement of Inquiry explored across this term by the Year 10 students will be: Science fiction’s speculative view of humanity and society provides us with a greater perspective of our current context.
Students will investigate the importance of historical context in the development of literary texts (eg dystopian societies) and write an analytical response to the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" and respond to an essay prompt of their choice.
Anthony Cavagna, Matt Barker
& Veronica Fong
teachers of MYP Language and Literature
anthony.cavagna@preshil.vic.edu.au