Demonstrate use of language competence
Overall Expectations
Speak and Represent
Specific Expectations
Express meaning spontaneously and/or produce with guidance, a short oral presentation on a personal or familiar academic topic in a structured situation, with or without visual aids such as gestures, role-playing/acting out, pictures, realia, multimedia, or other representations
With support, produce a short prepared or spontaneous presentation on a personal or familiar academic topic in a structured or unstructured situation with or without visual aids such as gestures, role-playing/acting out, pictures, realia, multimedia, or other representations
With targeted support, present and elaborate on thoughts and ideas on a range of familiar and unfamiliar topics, demonstrating an awareness of audience, with or without the use of media
With minimal support, present prepared or spontaneous oral or multimedia presentations that elaborate on thoughts and ideas in a coherent and effective manner on familiar and unfamiliar topics
Lessons that meet senior expectations
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Buy Nothing Day
- Diversity and Media Ownership
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- First Person
- Free Speech and the Internet
- Individuality vs. Conformity
- Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
- The Citizen Reporter
- Who’s Telling My Story?
Demonstrate knowledge of how discourse is organized, structured, and sequenced
Overall Expectations
Recognize text forms
Specific Expectations
Recognize and use a variety of media text forms; analyze and identify the organizational structure of a variety of text forms (e.g., folk tale/fable, newspaper article, instructions for a game, website)
Use a variety of familiar text forms and media in their own productions (e.g., recipe, comic strip, letters, radio or television report, article, computer presentation)
Lessons that meet senior expectations
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Bias in News Sources
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Challenging Hate Online
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- First Person
- Forensic Science Crime Dramas
- Hype!
- Images of Learning
- Magazine Production
- Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Movie Heroes and the Heroic Journey
- The Blockbuster Movie
- The Privacy Dilemma: Lesson Plan for Senior Classrooms
- Scripting a Crime Drama
- The Citizen Reporter
- The Price of Happiness
- Violence on Film: The Ratings Game
- Watching the Elections