On Government, love, and time
Imagine reading a story that will help you and your students discuss how we experience time; what it means to us; how we’re responsible for the misuse of it; how it shapes how we relate to others; and how we experience love and justice.
Imagine the variety of inquiries that we could design to explore love, time, government, and the outcome of our decisions… good and bad.
Andri Snær Magnason’s The Casket of Time takes readers on a fantastic journey. While most appropriate for English language and literature studies, in MYP, students at the end of phase 3 in Language Acquisition should be able to access this book.
The following generalizations are examples of the statements that may guide the design of units of inquiry.
SOK:
Governments demonstrate power through the decisions they make.
Decision-making in politics reflects the practice/essence of different philosophies.
SOP:
Writers use characters to voice relevant ideas.
Writers use different narrative modes to tell stories.
Readers explore narrative points of view to link the narrator to the unfolding story.
A few generalizations to carry out Interdisciplinary Units (IDU) between Language and Literature and Humanities can be:
- Democratic societies should balance the rights and responsibilities of individuals with the common good.
- Government decisions determine the well-being, opportunities, and integration of a society.
- Access to political resources determines the extent of power and influence in politics.
- Narrative modes could encompass storytelling elements, narrative point of view, narrative tense, and narrative voice.
Accents & Voices 