Thursday, April 9, 2015

Two Quality Text Resources

CommonLit (awesome resource)

Looking for articles to structure your students' inquiries? Need some thought provoking questions to drive explorations into global contexts and IB concepts? Here are just a few links to curated resouces that are easy to access. Check out the really cool questions too that could stimulate thought provoking discussions, critical thinking or serve as evidence-based writing prompt. 

 

(6th IB Lang & Lit unit could pair with Fleischman's Seedfolks novel: Possible IB concept: Identityhttp://www.commonlit.org/themes/5

 

Possible exploration into  resilience: http://www.commonlit.org/themes/11

 

IB concept: relationships - 

Friendship: http://www.commonlit.org/themes/3

 

IB concept: Global interactions with a focus on revolution

http://www.commonlit.org/themes/12

 

http://www.commonlit.org/

 

IB Diploma Theory of Knowledge Newsletter

Although it’s a paid resource, I signed up for the free newsletter and it has a ton of great questions, summaries, and links to articles that we can farm or “pearl grow” for structured inquiries. Here’s a link to the page for “language” and it has a great question: Is the extent of our language the extent of our knowledge? Interesting stuff.

http://www.theoryofknowledge.net/ways-of-knowing/language/