MYP Unit 2--Nothing of me is original, but I am!

4th Form, Phase 6 2022-2023

Key Concept: Related Concepts: Global Context:

Culture Point of view, Context Orientation in space and time

Statement of Inquiry:

Historical context and cultural background influence people’s point of view.

Factual Questions Conceptual Questions Debatable Questions

How does a person’s culture

affect their point of view?
What is point-of-view?
How does point of view Do people from similar cultural
With what techniques can a change across time? contexts share similar points of
writer/speaker express his/her view?
point of view? Why are different points of
view essential to Can we escape our cultural
What language expresses point of understanding a cultural context?
view? history? 

What elements comprise culture? How can literary and non-

literary texts affect how we
view our own culture?

Materials:

Keynote Proficient 4th Form Anthology

Unit 7 “Same but different” Poetry:

• p. 74—Background info on TED “I, Too, Sing America” Langston Hughes

Talk “The Danger of a Single Story”
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
MYP Unit 2--Nothing of me is original, but I am!
4th Form, Phase 6 2022-2023
• p. 75—Key words

• 7.1 (pp. 76-77) Short story:

• 7.2 (pp. 78-79)— Grammar “Cora Unashamed” Langston Hughes

Comparative forms/Expressing
preferences

● 7.3 Book review: “The Paradox of

Choice” (pp. 80-81)