MYP Command Terms for Individuals and Societies

If you want to see the relationships between things, you need to...

• Analyze

• Think

• Justify

• List

Your footnotes and works cited page are examples of...

(a)  

You're like Indiana Jones, you are making systematic discovery. (So actually not like him at all.)

(a)  

You're a detective, you need to observe and study.

• investigate

• check

• identify

• search

Mirrors also do this.

• reflect

• think

• describe

• recognize

Prove, using evidence. Show how it works.

• synthesize

• demonstrate

• detail

• illustrate

Make a decision if it is good or not, based on specific criteria.

• grade

• decide

• evaluate

• analyze

Often considered the most difficult, you need to be able to target the information you need to answer the question.

(a)  

But, tell me WHY you are right?

(a)  

Tell me just the essential details and nothing else.

• describe

• list

• summarize

• show