Language
Arts Literacy
Mission:
Learning to read, write, speak, listen, and view critically, strategically and
creatively enables students to discover personal and shared meaning throughout
their lives.
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Standard 3.5 Viewing and Media Literacy
All students will access, view, evaluate, and respond to print,
nonprint, and electronic texts and resources. |
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Big Idea:
A media literate person can evaluate how words, images, and
sounds influence a message. |
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3.5 A. Constructing Meaning |
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Essential Questions |
Enduring Understandings |
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- What’s the media message |
- .People experience the same media message differently. |
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Cumulative Progress
Indicators |
Comments and Examples |
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By the end of
Grade 12: |
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1.
Understand that
messages are representations of social reality and vary by historic time periods
and parts of the world. |
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2.
Identify and evaluate how a
media product expresses the values of the culture that produced it. |
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3.
Identify and select
media forms appropriate for the viewer’s purpose. |
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4.
Examine the commonalities and conflicts between the visual and print messages
(e.g., humor, irony, or metaphor) and recognize how words, sounds, and images
are used to convey the intended messages. |
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3.5 B. Visual and Verbal Messages |
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Essential Questions |
Enduring Understandings |
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- What values, lifestyles, and points of view are represented in, or
omitted from, media messages? |
- Media have embedded values and points of view. |
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Cumulative Progress
Indicators |
Comments and Examples |
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By the end of
Grade 12: |
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Analyze media for
stereotyping (e.g., gender, ethnicity). |
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2.
Analyze visual techniques used in a media message for
a particular audience and evaluate their effectiveness. |
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3.
Analyze the effects of media presentations and the
techniques to create them. |
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4.
Compare and contrast how the techniques of three or more media sources affect
the message. |
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3.5 C. Living with Media |
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Essential Questions |
Enduring Understandings |
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- What affects media choice? |
- Media choice is affected by personal experience and sense of need. |
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Cumulative Progress
Indicators |
Comments and Examples |
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By the end of
Grade 12: |
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1.
Use print and electronic media texts to explore human relationships,
new ideas, and aspects of culture (e.g., racial prejudice, dating,
marriage, family, and social institutions). |
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2.
Identify and discuss the political, economic, and social influences
on news media. |
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3.
Identify and critique the forms, techniques (e.g., propaganda) |
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4.
Create media presentations and written reports using multi-media
resources using effective images, text, graphics, music and/or sound effects
that present a distinctive point of view on a topic. |
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Link to Standard
3.5 Grade 8
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