Terminologies (Ai)
Identify the missing unit concept:
Global interactions
Power
?
Responsibility
True or false- There is about 5 million UXO remaining in Laos today.
False- More than 80 million UXO remains.
In one word, identify the main skill for Criterion C.
Communicating
Identify the full term: explosive weapons that have not detonated
UXO (unexploded ordnance)
Describe one thing you learned from the COPE center.
Answers may vary but should include two details.
State what PEEL stands for.
Point
Evidence
Explanations
Link
Identify the term: weapons consisting of a container that explodes to release smaller submunitions (bomblets)
Cluster munitions (or cluster bombs)
State three types of impact felt by Lao society, according to Ms. Noi's presentation at the COPE Visitor Center. Give an example of each.
Physical- blindness or lost limbs
Psychological- constant fear and anxiety of an accident happening
Economic- loss of agricultural production due to contaminated land
List the three requirements to be successful for Ci in this unit's tasks.
Addressing the audience (FORM= Ms. Roosevelt)
Responding to the purpose of the task (formal letter AND to persuade)
Usually an MYP command term is used. For this unit, 'persuade' has been chosen.
100 for audience, purpose (letter style), and command term (persuade)
Identify the international treaty signed in 2008 that strives to hold countries responsible for the use of cluster bombs by prohibiting the use, transfer, production, and stockpiling of this type of explosive weapon.
Convention on Cluster Munitions
Explain why the US decided to bomb Laos.
The US identified as capitalist in the postwar global ideology alignment, therefore, to defeat communism in Vietnam, the US wanted to disrupt supply chain routes feeding through eastern Laos in the Ho Chi Minh trail, where North Vietnamese could link with the Viet Cong in southern Vietnam.
Outline the structure for the formal letter.
Salutation
Introduction
Emotion paragraph (pathos)
Call to action paragraph (logos)
Identify the 1997 treaty that banned the manufacture, stockpiling and use of anti-personnel mines by the 162 countries that have signed the act.
Mine Ban Treaty
Explain the concept of responsibility by focusing on the significance of unexploded cluster bombs for children.
"They look attractive to children; anything shaped like a ball is fun for a child in a country as poor as Laos to play with. Many people in Lao are poor and children don’t have many toys to play with" (Convery). This source makes the argument from the perspective of children which shows the negative impacts of UXO from our local context. When so many children are affected from the actions of our previous generations, it is time to do something about it, even just creating awareness or educating people would be effective goals. There is a responsibility from all of us- MYP students, NGOs, to systems of power, to solve this issue.