IB MYP Language and Literature - Year 1 (Grade 6)

Unit 1 - Character Study in Short Stories

Characters may form identity through culture.

Time frame to complete: Criteria in this assessment are: ATL skills you will use:

Due Date: Criterion A: Analysing Ai,ii,iii,iv Thinking skills: Draw reasonable

conclusions and generalizations.
Criterion D: Using Language/Speaking
Di,ii, iii, iv

Task Directions: Readers, you may review your assigned short story and video. After you view
the story and the video, you will be asked to stop and answer a few questions. Write your
answers below.

GOAL - To demonstrate how characters may form identity through culture

ROLE - You are a content creator
AUDIENCE - Middle school students, peers from G6 student body
SITUATION - You have been asked to write/create an illustration about the theme or message of
the two stories and to compare and contrast the theme OR conflict.
PRODUCT - A written response about the chosen element of the story.

These are the links to the story and the video:

STORY OF MEGAN

THE PRESENT (Video)

Criterion A: Analyzing
Achievement Task-specific clarification of level descriptor
Level

0 The student does not reach a standard described by any of the descriptors below.

1-2 In your analysis you:

i. provide minimal identification and comment upon how the theme, conflict, setting and
character are all affected by one another
ii. provide minimal identification and comment upon the creator’s choices
iii. rarely justify opinions and ideas with examples or explanations; uses little or no terminology
iv. identify few similarities and differences in features within and between texts.

3-4 In your analysis you:

i. provide adequate identification and comment upon how the theme, conflict, setting and
 character are all affected by one another
ii. provide adequate identification and comment upon the creator’s choices
iii. justify opinions and ideas with some examples or explanations, though this may not be
consistent; uses some terminology
iv. Identify some similarities and differences in features within and between texts.

5-6 In your analysis you:

i. provide substantial identification and comment upon how the theme, conflict, setting and
character are all affected by one another
ii. provide substantial identification and comment upon the creator’s choices
iii. sufficiently justify opinions and ideas with examples and explanations; uses accurate
terminology
iv. describe some similarities and differences in features within and between texts.

7-8 In your analysis you:

i. provide perceptive identification and comment upon how the theme, conflict, setting and
character are all affected by one another
ii. provide perceptive identification and comment upon the creator’s choices
iii. give detailed justification of opinions and ideas with a range of examples, and thorough
explanations; uses accurate terminology
iv. compare and contrast features within and between texts.

Student Self
Assessment

Criteria D: Using language

Achievement Task-specific clarification of level descriptor

Level

0 The student does not reach a standard described by any of the descriptors below.

1-2 The student:

i. uses a limited range of topic-specific vocabulary, sentence structures and transition

words
ii. writes in a language that does not appropriately describe the characters
iii. uses grammar, syntax and punctuation with limited accuracy; errors often hinder
communication
iv. spells/writes with limited accuracy; errors often hinder communication

3-4 The student:

i. uses an adequate range of topic-specific vocabulary, sentence structures and

transition words
ii. sometimes writes in an appropriate language to describe the characters
 iii. uses grammar, syntax and punctuation with some degree of accuracy; errors
sometimes hinder communication
iv. spells/writes with some degree of accuracy; errors sometimes hinder
communication

5-6 The student:

i. uses a varied range of topic-specific vocabulary, sentence structures and transition

words competently
ii. writes competently in an appropriate language to describe the characters
iii. uses grammar, syntax and punctuation with a considerable degree of accuracy;
errors do not hinder effective communication
iv. spells/writes with a considerable degree of accuracy; errors do not hinder
communication

7-8 The student:

i. effectively uses a range of topic-specific vocabulary, sentence structures and

transition words
ii. writes in a consistently appropriate language to describe the characters
iii. uses grammar, syntax and punctuation with a high degree of accuracy; errors are
minor and communication is effective
iv. spells/writes with a high degree of accuracy; errors are minor and communication
is effective

Student Self
Assessment

Language and Literature Command Terms

Justification: Give valid reasons or evidence to support an answer or conclusion.

Compare and contrast: Give an account of the similarities and differences between two (or
more) items or situations, referring to both (all) of them throughout. In language and
literature, this may involve finding and evaluating the significance of similarities and
connections between texts and requires the student to make a literary analysis.

Identify: Provide an answer from a number of possibilities. Recognize and state briefly a
distinguishing fact or feature.
1. Describe the main character in your story. Use different types of character, character traits
and details from the text to support your response.

The characters in the Story of Megan are the mom, her little sister called Pam and the main
character is a girl called Megan. Megan is a protagonist in the story.

Megan is a very displeased girl who spends her summer looking after her little sister and at
the end of the story , she was being a kind person because her friends thought that Pam was
cute.

2. Which type of conflict/s does the main character face in the story? Why? Justify your
answer by using quotes from the story.

The type of conflict that the character would face in the story was Character Vs. Character
because her little sister Pam was such a nuisance and she found her sister very annoying
and would always cause trouble and not listen to anyone.
3. What is the importance of the setting? If the setting were different, how would it influence
the character?

The location of the story is at home and the importance of the location is that it tells you where
the story is taking place. If the story was to be taken place inside an airport and their family
were going for vacation, Megan could have been taken with another family and sent to watch
over their sister on the airplane instead.

4. What theme did you discover from this story? You may write or draw your answer. Provide a
detailed justification of how this theme is shown in the text using evidence from the story.

The theme that I discovered from the story is that taking care of a sibling might be really hard
even if your summer vacation is extremely busy because when Megan found out that she
must spend the whole summer taking care of Pam ,she might not have any free time to do
what she wants to.
 5. Which story element do you think is the most important in your chosen story? Discuss the
value of this element in the story using evidence from the text.

I think the most important story element is the plot because the plot tells me what is happening
in the story, The plot of the Story of Megan is that she has to spend the whole summer taking
care of her little sister and she found that she had no free time to do what she wanted to do.

6. Choose one story element- theme or conflict, to compare and contrast between two texts..
a. Using the two stories, complete the Venn Diagram to compare and contrast
(similarities and differences) of the SAME element.
 b. What is the theme OR conflict in each story?
i. What are the similarities in both stories (overlapping circles)?
ii. What are the differences in both stories (separate circles)?
You are required to write your response using the Venn diagram. This assessment needs to be
uploaded onto Managebac.