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 8: |
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1.
Analyze aspects of
print and electronic texts that support the author's point of view, opinion, or
attitude. |
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2.
Analyze the use of
elements (e.g., setting plot, theme, characters) to understand media
presentations, such as film, video, television, and theatrical productions. |
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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. |
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4.
Compare and contrast
how the various forms of media (e.g. newspapers, radio, television, internet
news outlets) cover the same topic. |
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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 8: |
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1.
Analyze and
compare the pros and cons of visual and verbal advertising. |
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2.
Evaluate various media messages for credibility. |
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3.
Develop criteria/rubric to judge the effectiveness of
visual and verbal presentations. |
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4.
Make inferences based upon the content of still images |
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5.
Compare and contrast
media sources, such as film and book versions of a story. |
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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 8: |
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1.
Evaluate media forms, such as television, video, games, music, and
film for content appropriateness (e.g., rating systems, rubric). |
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2. Analyze media content
for emotional effect on audience. |
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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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3.
Recognize that creators of media
and performances use a number of forms, techniques, and technologies to convey
their messages. |
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Link to Standard
3.5 Grade 7
Link to Standard
3.5 High School
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