Investigative Journalists Bear Witness, Report on Issues That Matter – 实地记者见证报道与自己息息相关的问题
As pictured below, MYP 4 & 5 students in Mr. McCarthy’s Language and Literature class have been hard at work, interviewing, researching and writing about issues that speak to their concerns as QAIS students, Qingdao residents and global citizens. How much homework is the right amount? What happens to the food waste from our cafeteria? Why do teens smoke and choose other reckless behaviors? These and other issues were investigated through primary and secondary research as students honed their narrative, informational and argumentative communication skills. Students learned how to stir reader empathy while writing authoritatively on subjects that mattered to them and their classmates. Said one student, “I want my article to make people talk more, so the school is like one big classroom.” Click here to read a selection of these articles.
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