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Balanced literacy Common Core SL.9-10.2 resources
Video Analysis Toolbox
In today’s electronic environment, multimedia literacy--an essential 21st century skill-- is more important than ever before. Students need to understand, analyze, and evaluate the complex messages presented in video, television, Internet, and other media forms. This toolbox includes six handouts that help students deconstruct messages in video clips, speeches, and commercials. Furthermore, incorporating multimedia into one’s lessons sparks student interest, teaches speaking and listening ski
Grades:
7th - 11th
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Salvadore: Late or Early by Sandra Cisneros
This Socratic seminar plan for discussion is based on the text, Salvadore: Late or Early by Sandra Cisneros from her book, "Women Hollering Creek and Other Stories" Random House. 1991 and is suitable for grades 7-10. .
My seminar plans are based on the Paideia philosophy. The National Paideia Center's definition of a Socratic seminar is, "A collaborative intellectual dialogue facilitated by open ended questions about a text." www.padieia.org. The Socratic semi
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Analyzing Pixar Shorts
Students learn to notice and note rhetorical devices and intended arguments through screen grabs from popular Pixar shorts, Presto (2008) and Day and Night (2010). Students work in groups to identify techniques and make arguments.
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Common Core Political Cartoon Analysis
This complete and easy-to-follow lesson plan allows us to teach our students something new but necessary, according to the CCSS and standardized tests: political cartoons.
Common Core-aligned, this lesson plan prepares students to analyze funny, controversial, and newsworthy cartoons and teaches them to use the standards they are used to working with in a new medium.
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Podcast Graphic Organizers/Planner (activities for all podcasts)
Get your students excited about the world of podcasts and help them develop their listening comprehension. There are so many fantastic podcasts for students of all ages to explore. This guide can be used in a classroom setting or at home. This is a PDF format for easy printing and sharing. See the Google Doc version if you would like the ability to customize it.You will find ideas and extensions that can work with any podcast!This guide is designed for educators and/or parents to use as a compan
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Media Literacy: Seven Sources of Bias Information Personal Essay
Introduces students to the 7 sources of major biases of all information regardless of its form. Reinforces critical thinking skills, fallacies, and conflicts of interest that can affect the transparency, objectivity, and authenticity of any type of piece of information. Students learn to identify fake news and false narratives to avoid or perpetuate them. The Healthy Mind Express Media Literacy Series, a nonprofit effort based in Michigan features two separate writing assignments (Seven Sources
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Comparing Hunger Games with Most Dangerous Game
An Activity for comparing the Hunger Games with The Most Dangeruos Game.
Includes discussion questions, a writing activity, and a T-chart activity.
Grades:
9th - 10th
Podcast Graphic Organizers (podcast activities) - CUSTOMIZABLE
This is a CUSTOMIZABLE version of the Podcast Listening Guide (for Google Presentations).Get your students excited about the world of podcasts and help them develop their listening comprehension. There are so many fantastic podcasts for students of all ages to explore. This customizable guide can be used in a classroom setting or at home. This is a PDF & Google Presentation format for easy printing/sharing & customizing. The link is included with the PDF with directions. There is also a
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Independent Reading Assignment Sheet
This assignment sheet has two different independent reading activities; students are meant to pick their book and then complete the tasks included Part 1: Investigating Informational TextsTask & RubricPart 2: Interview with the ReaderTask & RubricThere is also a rubric for each activity; tasks are created to accommodate different types of learners and apply their understanding to their reading.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Valentine's Day English
We use Valentine’s Day as a stimulus for improving our speaking skills and our writing to argue skills. Includes differentiated activities to help students improve their arguing techniques, organization, planning, tone and more. A fantastically detailed and differentiated lesson that can be adapted for other texts and age groups. Useful particularly for Grade 6, 7 and 8 English classes but a lot of fun for Grade 9 and Grade 10 classes preparing for English assessments too!
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Media Literacy Group Activities
There are three group activities in this document. Each activity is designed to help students understand the media's effect on it's audience. Students will engage in evaluating different media sources and completing the activities.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Movie Review: Hunger Games
A visually aesthetic movie review that can easily be adapted to any movie. This one has the Hunger Games movie picture but is a generic movie review.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Movie Review
A visually aesthetic movie review that can easily be adapted to any movie. This one has the Giver movie picture but is a generic movie review.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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