WHAT'S HAPPENING IN IB AT WEST?
October Parent Newsletter
MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAMME NEWS
At this point, your child should have narrowed down and committed to a personal project research topic. If they have not, please encourage them to do this over the break. They will be assigned to a Personal Project supervisor (teacher in the building) as well if they have not been assigned one already. Your child will be required to meet with this supervisor/teacher to show forward progress periodically, and those meeting deadlines will be communicated to them through advisory as well as through this newsletter.
CAREER-RELATED PROGRAMME NEWS
CAREER-RELATED CANDIDACY STATEMENT
MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAMME & ADVISORY
10th graders will continue work on researching their chosen Personal Project topic. Please ask your child about their project!
FROM THE STUDENT SERVICES OFFICE
LIBRARY NEWS
TRANSFERS FOR 2019-20 SCHOOL YEAR
OCTOBER IB DIPLOMA COURSE HAPPENINGS
IB EXAM REGISTRATION!!!!!!
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Please contact teacher or course syllabus for questions about English SL October work.
ASSESSMENTS:
PROJECTS:
READINGS:
NEWS:
Please contact teacher or course syllabus for questions about English HL Year 1 October work. Year 2, see below.
HL:
ASSESSMENTS:
YEAR 1:
YEAR 2: 10/30- Assessment over Acts 1-5 Hamlet!
PROJECTS:
YEAR 1:
YEAR 2: Due 10/19- Allusions i Hamlet Project
READINGS:
YEAR 1:
YEAR 2: We will read the majority of Hamlet in class, however, a calendar of our readings is available on Canvas.
NEWS:
YEAR 1:
YEAR 2:
SPANISH
Please contact teacher or course syllabus for questions about October work.
ASSESSMENTS:
PROJECTS:
READINGS:
NEWS:
FRENCH
Please contact teacher or course syllabus for questions about October work.
ASSESSMENTS:
PROJECTS:
READINGS:
NEWS:
GERMAN
Please contact teacher or course syllabus for questions about October work.
HISTORY OF EUROPE
TEST: Unit 1 test on 10/17
PROJECTS: NONE
NEWS:
Check CANVAS for reading assignments.
PSYCHOLOGY
TEST: Cognitive Approach to Behavior on 10/23/18
NEWS:
In October the students will have their first test over the Cognitive Approach to Behavior. In November we will start working on their IA (Internal Assessment). In Psychology that means replicating an experiment and then analyzing the data and producing a paper from this. This is a huge undertaking and is 25% of their IB grade. This will be due before they leave for winter break.
WORLD RELIGIONS
Please contact teacher or course syllabus for questions about October work.
GLOBAL POLITICS
ASSESSMENTS:
Power, Sovereignty, and International Relations; Due 10/22/18
PROJECTS:
IA Proposal was due 10/05/18
BIOLOGY
NEWS:
KREBS classes: YEAR 1 AND YEAR 2: When we return from Fall Break, Krebs will be distributing an outline of topic coverage and timeline. Parents, please be on the lookout for that handout after break. It will give you insight into when each topic will be covered as well as how many days will be spent on each.
YEAR 2: You will be done covering new topics and will begin exam review at the beginning of April.
BELL: Class calendar: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hj0enKTST8JfyePN733dKbV4aaczps1VbehK8pYzQXY/edit?usp=sharing
CHEMISTRY
Please contact teacher or course syllabus for additional questions about October work.
Class calendar: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16n1q1BW75ffrrYjnlg2zA9VtV732Pkt5EPplx6I2554/edit?usp=sharing
PHYSICS
Please contact teacher or course syllabus for questions about October work.
ESS
Please contact teacher or course syllabus for questions about October work.
MATH STUDIES
Please contact teacher or course syllabus for questions about October work.
MATH SL
Please contact teacher or course syllabus for questions about October work.
MATH HL
Please contact teacher or course syllabus for questions about October work.
ASSESSMENTS:
PROJECTS:
READINGS:
NEWS:
IB ART
IB THEATRE
ASSESSMENTS:
10/30: Students at SL plan and deliver an individual presentation (15 minutes maximum) to their peers in which they outline their research and exploration of a theatre tradition they have not previously studied (selected from a prescribed list ). Students research the cultural and/or theoretical context of the selected theatre tradition and identify one performance convention from this tradition to explore practically and physically. The presentation must include a physical demonstration of the student’s practical and physical explorations of the performance convention and its application to a moment of theatre. The student then reflects on the impact this has had on them as a performer and as a learner. Students submit a continuous, unedited video recording of the live presentation (15 minutes maximum) and a list of sources, as well as any additional resources they have used in their presentation that is not clearly seen or understood within the video.
PROJECTS:
none
READINGS:
At least 8 to 10 credible sources for Research Presentation.
NEWS:
Students are researching and preparing for their first ASSESSMENT, the Research Presentation.
IB MUSIC
ASSESSMENTS:
Year 1: Triads and Seventh Chords, Secular Music in Medieval Times on 10/4/18
Year 2: Music History and Theory on 10/4/18
PROJECTS:
None
NEWS:
None
TOK
Please contact teacher or course syllabus for questions about October work.