Seminar: Writing and the Specificity of Place
Program: DINÉ
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Grade Level: High school
Year of Publication: 2020
Abstract
This unit will help to blend cross-curricular relationships with Navajo language and culture classes, after school cultural activities, as well as with built in school-wide experiential learning. Because the unit is designed for Freshman students in an IB World School, I will be drawing off of the IB Ways of Knowing (WOK). IB Schools utilize the Theory of Knowledge (TOK), of which, WOK make up the greater portion. The focus how we know what we claim to know. TOK is composed almost entirely of questions such as: questions include: What counts as evidence for X? How do we judge which is the best model of Y? What does theory Z mean in the real world? According to the IB website, through these inquiry-based questions, it is expected that students will gain a greater awareness of “their personal and ideological assumptions, as well as developing an appreciation of the diversity and richness of cultural perspectives” (“What is TOK”).