Teaching & Learning English
Hiii again🫠 From Wednesday to Friday we had the seminar When in Rome…, which focused on whether we should “do as the Romans do when we are in Rome”. I am one of the leaders in this seminar. We had four questions with four extension questions: first, how do you define local? Second, is there … Read more
Content that we discussed: This seminar’s topic was “The Mega Reflection on One’s ELL Journey.” Dr. Terrett had already prepared various questions in the English workbook, yet ELLA students chose to discuss more on the questions they brainstormed themselves, which were connected to the topic. The questions focused on the students’ favorite units, one book … Read more
Content that we discussed: In Seminar 4, ELLA discussed topics related to “whether immigrants should fully adopt their new culture” and “what are your reactions when facing a culture that you can’t understand.” We also talked about religion, rights, and how to define whether a culture is “correct” (benefits people and society) or not—for example, … Read more
Our final MYP ELL seminar was an enjoyable ELLmmy Awards ceremony. With a mix of meaningful and fun award categories, we nominated classmates, shared our thoughts and voted for winners, looking back on three years of ELL learning. The atmosphere was relaxed and cheerful. We celebrated each other’s strengths and growth, and references to our … Read more
1. Your performance in the seminar This concluding seminar of the unit focused on personal reflecting of our overall MYP learning journey, and I got a 7. I clearly shared my personal views targeting all discussion questions, including my recommended course reading materials, core gains from the Literature course. 2. The leaders’ way of managing … Read more
Seminar reflection 5 The ELL mmys In this seminar, we looked back at our past being inside ELL and the things we went through by an award ceremony from the leaders. Such as the most likely to fall asleep during SA, the person that has the most hidden talent etc. All these leads us back … Read more
Another seminar has happened, this one about a “Meta Reflection”. Me and Anna were the leaders for this seminar. I think this seminar turned out to be pretty good, because everyone got 6+ for B We were assessed on B, so everyone didn’t need that much analysis, which did make things easier. The first question: … Read more
The topic of the fourth seminar was about different cultures. I forgot many details, I remembered we first started with our own definition over what is foreign and what is local. Some people believed that how people identified themselves as is more important, others thought that you cannot define yourself arbitrarily how people think you … Read more
4th Seminar Reflection Foreigners and locals, culture etc. This seminar was mainly about if we should follow “when in Rome, do as the Romans do”. We discussed upon the questions “how do you define local or foreign ?” “ How can somebody be local or foreign ?” “ Are there cultures that only insiders could … Read more
3rd Seminar Reflection Ad posters In this seminar, we mainly discussed about 4 ad posters that we made ourself, to interpret the concepts and functions the poster must gain to act as an engaging ad. We discussed about the color choices, space taking, text (including font, colors price), necessary information, connections between objects and the … Read more
The topic of the second seminar was Travel Ads. This seminar mainly used the travel advertisements made by our classmates (from ELLBs) and analyzed their pros and cons. I found a funny phenomenon that people tend to defend their work by telling their own intentions even though the feedback and criticisms were usually based on … Read more
“Supa Spectacular Seminar of the Ultimate Reflection” Our last seminar of the unit was about reflecting on our MYP journey. The first question asked about our favorite or most memorable unit. We all held differing opinions; however, our choices all centered around the same core reasons, such as pleasant learning experiences, opportunities to acquire new … Read more