Global Context: Personal and Cultural Expression

 

Key Concepts: Self-Expression, Theme, and Purpose

 

Statement of Inquiry: Writers use personal narratives to creatively express underlying themes within their cultures’ and their personal identities.

 

Inquiry Questions:

• Factual -How do readers/writers accumulate story details to creatively understand/convey themes?

• Conceptual -Why do we read stories? How do they impact our personal and collective experiences?

• Debatable - What are the qualities of a good personal narrative?

 

Approaches to Learning:

• Communication skills

  • Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interaction

  • Show details

  • Give and receive meaningful feedback

  • Use intercultural understanding to interpret communication

• Reading, writing and using language to gather and communicate information

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  • Read critically and for comprehension

  • Make inferences and draw conclusions