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.

Standard 3.5  Viewing and Media Literacy

All students will access, view, evaluate, and respond to print, nonprint, and electronic texts and resources.

Big Idea:  A media literate person can evaluate how words, images, and sounds influence a message.

3.5 A. Constructing Meaning

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

- What’s the media message - .People experience the same media message differently.

Cumulative Progress Indicators

Comments and Examples

By the end of Grade 7:  
1.         Analyze aspects of print and electronic texts that support the author's point of view, opinion, or attitude.  
2.         Analyze the use of elements (e.g., setting plot, theme, characters) to understand media presentations, such as film, video, television, and theatrical productions.  
3.         Analyze and respond to visual and print messages (e.g., humor, irony, metaphor) and recognize how words, sounds, and still or moving images are used in each medium to convey the intended messages.  
4.         Compare and contrast how the various forms of media (e.g. newspapers, radio, television, internet news outlets) cover the same topic.  

3.5 B. Visual and Verbal Messages

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

- What values, lifestyles, and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, media messages? - Media have embedded values and points of view.

Cumulative Progress Indicators

Comments and Examples

By the end of Grade 7:  
1.         Analyze and compare the pros and cons of visual and verbal advertising.  
2.         Evaluate various media messages for credibility.  
3.         Develop criteria/rubric to judge the effectiveness of visual and verbal presentations.  
4.         Make inferences based upon the content of still images.  
5.         Compare and contrast media sources, such as film and book versions of a story.  

3.5 C. Living with Media

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

- What affects media choice? - Media choice is affected by personal experience and sense of need.

Cumulative Progress Indicators

Comments and Examples

By the end of Grade 7:  
1.         Evaluate media forms, such as television, video, games, music, and film for content appropriateness (e.g. rating systems, rubric).  
 2.         Analyze media content for emotional effect on audience.  
3.     Create media presentations and written reports, using multi-media resources such as an overhead projector, computer, and/or a tape recorder to communicate information.  

 

 

 

 

 

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