Content Area: Language Arts Literacy

 

Index: 3.5B Grade 12 CPI 2

 

Standard: 3.5 - Viewing and Media Literacy

 

Strand: B - Visual & Verbal Messages

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 -  The student will compare and contrast three or more media sources.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       After identifying one or more of their postsecondary goals, students select three key words to use for initiating an on-line search for information about attaining those goals. Students then pursue their search on-line, noting educational, vocational, and personal routes to goals. Afterwards, they write an essay concerning how they could achieve their dreams.

 

·       During a study of the Transcendental Literary Movement in the United States, students enter names of key figures, such as Emerson and Thoreau, into an on-line search of the Internet. They research the influence of these individuals on other noted figures, such as Ghandi, and report their findings to the class.

 

·       While studying one work such as Milton’s Paradise Lost or Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, students browse the Internet for relevant material. Students use their research to write a report on current opinion of the work.

 

Inspiration Templates:

 

·        Book Comparison

·        Literary Comparison

·        Comparison

·        Comparative Analysis

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