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
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.
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