Water, Water

Unit A.O.I ATL: Discuss and report back to class. HI: How do I use Water? How do others use Water?

Significant Concept/s

Objectives to be met A-1

Students will consider the different uses the world has for water and that we cannot live without it.

A-3 A-5 B-2 C-2

Visuals: Beach scene by Degas Extension reading: Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

C-5

Climate

C-6

Env: How does the climate change affect the way we all live?

A-1 A-4

Discuss in pairs and small groups and report back to class.

B-3

Write a journal entry, poem, news story and weather forecast.

C-3 C-4 C-5 C-6

Illustration of poem Review of new grammar points.

Fact file Journal entry

Create a fact file and make predictions.

C-2

A composition: Shabanu u & I

The simple past tense, basic etymology, paragraphs, the passive voice, direct and indirect speech, relevant vocabulary.

B-1 C-1

Assessment

Read various text types including: prose fiction, travel writing, a postcard and a poem. Create: a composition, a leaflet and an account.

C-4

Students will gain an understanding of how the climate changes affect both animals and humans and the impacts this has/ will have.

Experience: Pakistan, Isle of Wight, Syria and Bangladesh.

C-1 C-3

ATL:

Skills/ Content

Poem

Discuss how animals are affected by the changes in the climate and read related texts. Discuss how climate change is affecting the way people live and study related media. Creating a dramatic headline, making a pie chart, using the first conditional, practising similes,

Air

Unit A.O.I

Significant Concept/s

ATL H&SE: How does the air we breathe affect our health?

Objectives to be met A-2

Students will consider the importance of breathing clean air if we want to lead healthy lives.

A-4 A-6 B-2

Describe paintings.

Catastrophe

C-6

Env: What happenes under the earth’s plates?

A-1 A-2 A-5 B-1 B-2 C-1 C-2 C-3 C-4 C-5 C-6

Descriptive paragraph Grammar review

C-2

C-5

Assessment

Discuss: Who owns the air? What is fresh air like? What problems come from polluted air? Perform a class recital of a poem.

C-4

To understand the meaning of the word catastrophe, and how catastrophic events impact the natural world and human life.

Opening quotation: excerpt from ‘To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent’ by John Keats

C-1 C-3

ATL

Skills/ Content

A Ghost Story Write a descriptive paragraph, an audio guide and a ghost story. Alliteration, specific vocabulary to create mood and atmosphere, noun phrases, multiple sentences, comparatives and superlatives. Opening quotation: excerpt from ‘Darkness’ by Lord Byron.

Reconstruction of text

Discuss and report: What happens under the earth’s Grammar review plates? What is a volcano? What is a volcano like? What causes earthquakes and tsunamis? Radio Report Gathering information from a website: www.howstuffworks.com Note taking and reconstructing a text after listening to it: Pliny the Younger. Interpreting paintings and other images. Write a radio report directly from the site of Mount Vesuvius as it erupts. Practise tenses, adverbials and verbal phrases, the second conditional and the use of synonyms and metaphor. Develop writing and reporting techniques

Feeding the World Unit Wildlife

A.O.I

Significant Concept/s

ATL C&S:

Objectives to be met A-1

Students will consider what it is not to have food readily available, and how we can help people who face starvation.

A-4 A-6 B-1

How do people try and help others?

B-2 B-3 C-1 – C-6

ATL ENV: How do humans and animals live together?

A-3 Students will explore the relationship between humans and animals and how we both need to respect each other in order to survive.

A-5 A-6 B-1 C-1 – C-6

Skills/ Content

Assessment

Opening quotation: Chinese proverb Experience: Korea, Brazil, Malawi and French, Italian and Dutch paintings. Read: a Portrait of the Week focusing on the artwork ‘Summer’ by Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

Portrait of the Week

Write your own Portrait of the Week piece, using an artwork as inspiration.

Grammar review

Poem

Read a prose fiction, a web advertisement (The Abandoned Street Kids of Brazil Trust), a travel diary and a poem. Create a diary entries and a poem. Proverbs, context clues, noun phrases and the simple present tense. Opening quotation: excerpt from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.

A dialogue

Non-Fiction: description of the Colosseum in Rome. A story Prose non-fiction: Whatever You Do, Don’t Run! Comic Strip: ‘Mark Trail’ A letter Prose Fiction: excerpt from Watching by Judy Allen. Letter to a wildlife magazine: saving the Siberian Grammar review tiger. Prose Non-fiction – story about a man-eating tiger. Discuss: How do humans and animals live together? Why is it important to learn about animals? Why is it difficult to protect animals? What happens if animals are a threat? Sentence types, writing dialogue, the use of prefixes and specific vocabulary.

Living Together

Unit A.O.I ATL ENV: How do we manage scarce resources?

Significant Concept/s

Objectives to be met

A-3 Understanding that the world’s resources A-4 are limited and in order to live B-1 peacefully, we need to share them carefully. B-3 C-1 – C-6

Skills/ Content Opening quotation: Thomas Malthus, 1798 Information text: about creating land in the Netherlands and Dubai. Folk Tale: The Red Rooster from Ethiopia Poetry: ‘I’d like to squeeze’ by John Agard Classic fiction: excerpt from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

Assessment Create a design for an island, describe in writing and give oral presentation. A Folk Tale

Discuss: How do we manage scarce resources? Can we create more land? How do we share resources fairly?

Changing Places

Practise direct speech, modal verbs, using the imperative, negating sentences, rhyme sentences, and homophones. ATL H&SE: What is an alien? How can we help others who have just moved to a new place?

A-1 Students will discuss the reasons for A-2 leaving one place for another, the effects B-1 this may have and what we can do to ease the transition. B-2 B-3 C-1 – C-6

Opening Quotation: excerpt from ‘The New Colossus’ by Emma Lazarus Visuals: photographs on the theme of changing places Prose fiction: Mud City by Deborah Ellis, Dear Olly by Michael Morpurgo. Poetry: ‘Alien Abduction’ by Mariya Aziz Informal letter, Poster: advertising new life in Australia Autobiographical essay: from The Relative Advantages of Learning My Language by Amy Choi Practise prefixes, possessives, relative clauses, comparatives and superlatives, present and past participles, and slogans.

Design a poster Write journal entries Interpret pictures. Autobiographical essay

Identity

Unit A.O.I

Significant Concept/s

ATL H&SE: How do we see ourselves and others?

Objectives to be met A-1

Students will consider what forms an identity, and what it is to have more than one identity.

A-2 A-5 A-6 B-1

Community

C-1 – C-6

ATL C&SE: How can we make a difference in our communities?

A-1 Through learning about others making a difference in their communities, students will consider how they may be able to take action.

A-4 B-1 B-2 B-3 C-1 – C-6

Skills/ Content Opening quotation: ‘Human Family’ by Maya Angelou Fables: The Obvious Elephant, a Quechan fable and a fable from Aesop. Prose Fiction: excerpt from Sing Down the Moon by Scott O’Dell Autobiography: Introduction to 19 Varieties of Gazelel: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye. Poetry: ‘Citizen of the World’ by David Calder Editorial – excerpt from article ‘Vanishing Languages’ by David Crystal. Practise: affixes, prepositions, phrasal verbs, sentence Opening quotation: excerpt from a poem by Khunying Chumnongsri Rutnin

Assessment A Fable A Composition Perform a poetry reading

A recipe An essay

Poetry: ‘Finding a Friend’ by Jane Clarke Interview: about a community project Prose fiction: extract from Red Sky In The Morning ´by Elizabeth Laird Visuals: comics. Discuss: How can we make a difference in out communities? Why is friendship so important? What are community projects? The family as a community and how can we best work together? Practise verb phrases, conjunctive adverbs and homographs.

A letter