Go through the given videos and think about the following questions while you are viewing the videos.

1) What is the most important part of the article or the video?
2) Why do you think it's important ?
3) Did it effect you in any way? (Did you feel happy/ irritated/ worried/ sad/ excited)

4) Which video seems real/genuine/ believable?

5) Which video seems exaggerated or sensational?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcbiGsDMmCM (Melania Trump and Michelle Obama)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFYuFdkEqfw (Barack Obama endorsing Hillary Clinton)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ8NGXZVeb0 (patanjali ayurved advertisements)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7piGe1VRNw (Ramdev advertising products)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiGXTKWmNWM (ASCI slams patanjali's false claims)

http://www.ndtv.com/video/news/the-buck-stops-here/kashmir-ground-zero-3765-cartridges-1-3-million-pellets-lack-of-vision-427893 (Kashmir Ground Zero: 3765 Cartridges, 1.3 Million Pellets - Lack Of Vision?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deVTW6ELi0c     ( Ministers Going to Olympics to Click Selfies?)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/world/americas/justin-trudeau-is-on-the-cover-of-a-marvel-comic-book.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0          (article on Justin Trudeau)

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/white-lives-matter-declared-a-hate-group-in-the-u-s-this-is-standard-white-supremacist-stuff             (white lives matter)

http://mediasmarts.ca/sites/mediasmarts/files/publication-report/full/young-canadians-electronic-bullying.pdf           (cyber bullying)

http://www.ndtv.com/video/news/news/a-ray-cured-tumour-says-woman-who-claimed-mother-teresa-s-first-miracle-429977         (miracle of mother Teresa)

http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/iits-are-slaves-of-their-own-tradition-and-orthodox-manish-sisodia-1454221          (IIT's are slaves of their own tradition and orthodox)

http://mediasmarts.ca/sites/mediasmarts/files/tutorials/facing-online-hate/html5.html          (online hatred)

You may answer or reflect on the above questions in the given link of padlet

https://padlet.com/reema_mitra/9gvyad4bu6go

Watch the videos and come up with:
3-thoughts
2-questions
1-analogy (an opinion or perspective)
You should try to analyze the role media played in developing your idea or opinion and were the facts ethically presented?
What kind of impact the news or information has or might have had on you, people in general?

A happy begining

A new academic year has begun and students were quick to settle down, make new friends and adjust to the routine of school life. They hugged and greeted their friends and teachers and heaved a sigh of relief to see known faces in the classrooms.
The first two days were spent on warm up activities and reflecting on the essential elements of PYP. Here are some photographs of the same

Students took a walk around the beautiful campus on the first day of school

In the photograph below students are engaged in an introductory game:

They reflected on the learner profile continuum on the first two days apart from understanding the meaning of them.

They reflected on AgaKhan strands by matching the sub-strands to the main strand

The rest of the week students got into the groove of the curriculum. In the photographs below students were being provoked with news articles, adverts, books, pictures and magazines for the unit on media. After going through the above they were asked to reflect on some questions.

In Maths students were asked to choose any one number among the numbers: 2, 5, 6 and 9. Thereafter they were asked to make more numbers using basic operations

In English students listened to persuasive speeches of Michele Obama and Donald Trump and reflected on them through a fish bowl activity. They reflected on the following questions:

Whose speech do you like?

What are the things you like about it? (example words used, body language, tone of voice, information given in the speeches, background music).