Unit of Inquiry (Week 4-5)

	Week 4- Comprehension: April 25th- 29th	Teacher Notes
Activities	First, I started to research and make a planning sheet on my topic. Ms.Dianne explained us to do it on the board how to construct and conduct a survey. I wanted to gather information in a survey from my friends at SWA.	Great descriptive writing and very informative
Standard and Criterion Met	Criteria C, D and E.
Completed Task	I finished making my planning sheet and survey. Then I emailed it to my friends  and I got many different answers that I didn’t expect. I appreciated my friends’ help in providing me with the opportunity to collect this important data.	Yes I enjoyed completing your survey too.
Resources	Here is the website that I found for my topic. It was really helpful and it helped me to understand further about how to write good essays.	Yes I would also like to improve my writing.
To Do List	I have to make a chart, which shows and rates my friends’ answers. If I finish making it, I will try to upload it onto my edublog.	I look forward to viewing the results of your analysis.

	Week 5- Application May 2nd- 6th	Teacher Notes
Activities	Completed a chart using the data collected from my survey. I examined the answers and patterns and illustrated my findings in a table.	Well done you are working to your plan and timeline.
Standard and Criterion Met	Criterion C,D, E
Resources	I classified the data collected from the survey to construct the table to illustrate the results.	Great use of Verbs.
To Do List	Ms Dianne has asked me to analyse my findings on a personal level. I will identify what skills are needed to improve my writing and I will write a story- same topic in both Korean and English.	Jae Jun I will use MYP Lng B and the Korean teacher will mark your work. We will then compare and contrast the skills represented in both pieces of work.

Survey Chart (ESL)

	Katty	Nini	Jaeseung
What kinds of media (Newspaper, magazine, television) can we use to improve our English skills (Grammar, essay)?	Internet, Videos, Televisions, and Reading articles	Television improves our English skills.	All of them
How do we write good essay?	By reading other people’s essay	We should have topic sentence and supporting sentence and conclusion sentences.	You may have great ideas and facts that you want to write about, but somewhere during the writing process you start mixing them up with good outlines.
How do we improve our grammar?	Read, write and speak more	Read many book to see how do they use grammar properly or you can communicate with your friend, and listen carefully how do they use the grammar.	By reading and studying.
Can we use variety English songs to improve our English?	Sometimes yes, but sometimes the English is not very proper English.	Yes	Yes, by memorizing and also, analyzing the english songs, we can improve our english.
Is it beneficial if we talk a lot with people to improve our grammar or essay?	Maybe yes	No. Don’t talk too much when you are talking to people; try to listen to them, how do they use grammar.	Yes
Is reading book helps us to improve our English on grammar or essay?	Yes, I think so	Yes	Yes
Is mental attitude important when we write good essay?	I don’t know	Yes	Yes
Can you tell me the way that we can develop a lot English?	Read books and articles	I don’t know.	Private lesson
What kinds of structure do I need to use to improve my writing skills?	Depend on the topic and things you are writing about.	I don’t know.	Introduction, body, and conclusion

Summary of my project (Video)

Reflection On Weeks 1 - 5 (ESL)

During the past 5 weeks I have created 2 tasks on my topic “How can I use my learning style to develop strategies to improve my writing?”

First I researched using the net and found an article that provided background information to help my understanding of the issues related to how I write good essay and use good grammar in right place.

With this information I created a summary in the topic and posted this on my blog page. This helped my understanding and provided me with more information to move to the next stage on Blooms.

During the “comprehension” stage I created my second task. I create a survey on how people learn and sent it to all my friends at SWA. I then embeded a visual snapshot to show audience my understanding of the topic. We were asked to record our summaries as a video and embed the file into our blog page to demonstrate our oral language skills and ability to mast intonation and expression. I found this difficult to do at first but Nini, Jaeseung, Fransisca and Katty were able to assist me and I really appreciated with their cooperation. I was pleased with the final product.

Now I am preparing for the next stage of Blooms “Application” and I am deciding how I will design my next task that could include: an interview, a simulation, a presentation using IT tools and illustration.

It’s time for me now to plan my next task so please check my blog on Friday and post a comment.