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Volusia County Schools Curriculum Map K-12 Curriculum and Program Accountability April, 2007 Map to be revised to CCSS Spring of 2013
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ENGLISH IV*
Curriculum MapsVolusia County Schools
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Volusia County Schools Curriculum Map Terminology
Unit/Organizing Principle: The overarching organizational structure used to group content and concepts within the curriculum map Pacing: The recommended time period within the year for instruction related to the essential questions to occur Essential Questions: The overarching question(s) that will serve to guide instruction and to push students to higher levels of thinking. Essential questions should guide students to the heart of the big idea or content and should meet the following characteristics:
A. Endurance: important for the long term B. Leverage: applicable to or connected with many academic disciplines or concepts C. Readiness for the next level of learning: prepares stu dents for success in the next grade/course D. Clarity: provides clear and common understanding E. Measurable: able to be assessed
Concepts/Content: A list of the big ideas, broad topics and subtopics, or major underlying concepts covered in the development o f the essential questions Learning Targets/Skills : The content knowledge, processes, and enabling skills that will ensure successful mastery of the essential questions Benchmarks: The Sunshine State Standards aligned with the learning targets and skills Key Terminology: The content vocabulary and other key terms and phrases with which students should be familiar and that support mastery of the learning targets, skills and essential questions Activities and Resources: A suggested listing of high qualit y, appropriate materials, strategies, lessons, textbooks, videos and other media sources that are aligned with the learning targets, skills and essential questions Assessment : A list of district-required and optional classroom assessments at are aligned with the learning targets, skills and essential questions. Assessments should include formative assessments to monitor progress and inform instruction as well as summative assessments for grading and reporting purposes.
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ENGLISH IV CURRICULUM MAP READING
UNIT/ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE:
READING - The student reads grade level text; demonstrates consistent and effective use of vocabulary; and locates, gathers, analyzes, and evaluates information from print and electronic sources
PACING: YEAR LONG
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
• Does the student use a variety of before, during, and after reading strategies and reading tools?
• Does the student locate, gather, read, analyze, and evaluate a variety of texts according to the required task?
• Does the student read text orally adjusting delivery according to purpose?
• Does the student demonstrate consistent and effective use of vocabulary and use strategies to broaden knowledge of academic and interpersonal vocabularies?
• Does the student determine main idea, analyze organizational patterns, and use background knowledge to aid comprehension?
• Does the student analyze the validity and reliability of information?
• Does the student analyze author’s purpose to determine meaning?
• Does the student make inferences and confirm those inferences with textual support and background knowledge?
• Does the student select age appropriate material to read for pleasure?
CONCEPTS /CONTENT
LEARNING TARGETS/SKILLS BENCHMARKS KEY TERMINOLOGY
Students will gain an understanding of how to read, evaluate, and analyze written information for a variety of purposes using various reading strategies and tools.
1. Vocabulary Development • Use interpersonal and academic vocabularies. • Increase vocabulary using a variety of strategies. •
LA. 1112.1.6.1 LA. 1112.1.6.2 LA. 1112.1.6.3 LA. 1112.1.6.4 LA. 1112.1.6.5 LA. 1112.1.6.6
Review previous terminology as appropriate.
• Analysis • Annotation/Markin
g the text
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2. Reading Fluency
• Read text ora lly and naturally. • Adjust reading rate based on purpose, text difficulty, form, and
style. 3. Comprehension
• Comprehend graphic representations. • Use pre-reading strategies. • Make and confirm predictions and inferences. • Determine main idea or essential message in text. • Analyze organizational patterns in text. • Make competent and informed decisions on gathering and
evaluating written information from print and electronic sources for personal and academic purposes.
• Determine validity and reliability of text. Select materials to read for pleasure
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LA. 1112.1.5.1
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• Attitude • Audience • Author’s purpose • Cause-effect • Chunking • Clarifying • Comparison-
contrast • Context clues • Drawing
conclusions • Evaluation • Evidence • Fact-opinion • Fluency • Inference • Inflection • Interpretation • Main idea • Message • Paraphrase • Personal
connections • Prediction • Pre-reading • Previewing • Prior knowledge • Reflection • Retelling • Reviewing the text • Skimming/scannin
g • Summarizing • Supporting details • Synthesis • Tone • Visualizing
Note: See links to
comprehensive lists of all terminology.
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
• Does the student use a variety of before, during, and after reading strategies and reading tools? • Does the student locate, gather, read, analyze, and evaluate a variety of texts according to the required task? • Does the student read text orally adjusting delivery according to purpose? • Does the student demonstrate consistent and effective use of vocabulary and use strategies to broaden knowledge of
academic and interpersonal vocabularies? • Does the student determine main idea, analyze organizational patterns, and use background knowledge to aid
comprehension? • Does the student analyze the validity and reliability of information? • Does the student analyze author’s purpose to determine meaning? • Does the student make inferences and confirm those inferences with textual support and background knowledge? • Does the student select age appropriate material to read for pleasure?
Activities and Resources
Assessment
Activities/Strategies 1. Reading Fluency
• Choral reading • Oral interpretation • Drama games (role playing)
2. Vocabulary Development
• Visual representation (graphic organizers, role playing) • Context -based instruction (prepared vocabulary resources) • Vocabulary games (baseball, Millionaire, Jeopardy)
3. Comprehension • Annotation/Marking the test • Anticipation guides • Chunking the text • Close reading • Dialectical journal • Graphic organizer • Guided reading • Interactive reading guide • KWL chart • Predicting • Questioning the text
Suggested Assessments
FORF (Florida Oral Reading Fluency) Prentice Hall Oral Reading Fluency Tests DAR/ Teacher and/or student generated rubrics Teacher and/or student generated rubrics School-based vocabulary resources Completed graphic organizer (KWL) PSAT/SAT Teacher generated tests Class discussion SpringBoard Embedded Assessments SpringBoard Diagnostic Assessments
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• Quick Writes • SOAPStone • Summarizing/paraphrasing/retelling • Think Aloud • TP-CASTT • Visualizing • Activate prior knowledge • RAFT • Socratic seminar
Suggested Resources
SpringBoard Level Senior • “Perception is Everything” Unit 1 • “Othello: Bringing the Plot to Life” Unit 4
Prentice Hall • “Reading stanzas as units of meaning p. 917, 920, 925 • “ Context Clues” p. 118, 120, 122, 124
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ENGLISH IV CURRICULUM MAP LITERARY ANALYSIS
UNIT/ORGANIZING LITERARY ANALYSIS - PRINCIPLE:
• The student identifies, analyzes and applies knowledge of the elements of a variety of fiction and literary text to develop a thoughtful response to a literary selection.
• The student identifies, analyzes and applies knowledge of the elements of a variety of non-fiction informational and expository texts to demonstrate an understanding of the information presented.
PACING: YEAR LONG
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
• Does the student understand and apply the use of literary devices and techniques as they read and react to a variety of texts?
• Does the student identify and explain universal themes in classic and multicultural literature from various time periods?
• Does the student understand and apply in writing the technical and stylistic elements of classic and multicultural literature from various time periods?
• Does the student identify the characteristics of various texts, genres, and subgenres?
CONCEPTS /CONTENT
LEARNING TARGETS/SKILLS BENCHMARKS KEY TERMINOLOGY
Students will read, critically analyze, and examine literary devices and elements in various genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama while recognizing and explaining textual connections.
• Define and identify appropriate grade-level terminology in various texts.
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Review previous terminology as appropriate. Allegory Anaphora Apostrophe Black humor Caesura
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Students will gain an understanding of the thematic, stylistic, and technical qualities that characterize various genres and texts in a variety of cultures and time periods
• Interpret text of various genres for intended meaning and
purpose.
• Evaluate and analyze the effective uses of literary devices unique to each genre.
• Compare characteristics of genres including those that overlap
or cut across lines of genre classifications. • Compare and contrast texts to convey a specific purpose or
argument pertaining to a variety of literary elements or devices.
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LA.1112.2.2.1 LA.1112.2.2.2 LA.1112.2.2.3 LA.1112.2.2.4 LA.1112.2.2.5
Chiasmus Consonance Elegy Epic Epiphany Gothic Interior Monologue Intertextuality Kenning Literary Criticisms
• Archetypal • Cultural • Feminist • Historical • Marxist • Reader-Response
Literary Movements • Naturalism • Neoclassicism • Realism • Romanticism
Litotes Magical Realism Medieval Romance Miracle Play Metaphysical poetry Metonymy Mock Epic Mock-heroic style Morality Play Ode Synecdoche
Note: See links to
comprehensive lists of all terminology.
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
• Does the student understand and apply the use of literary devices and techniques as they read and react to a variety of texts? • Does the student identify and explain universal themes in classic and multicultural literature from various time periods? • Does the student understand and apply in writing the technical and stylistic elements of classic and multicultural literature from
various time periods? • Does the student identify the characteristics of various texts, genres, and subgenres
Activities and Resources
Assessment
Activities/Strategies
1. Define and identify appropriate grade-level terminology in various texts. • Explicate a poem. • Identify film techniques and terminology. • Annotate text for literary terminology.
2. Interpret text in various genres for intended meaning and purpose.
• Read a text (poem, film, short story, essay, etc.) and write a GIST statement that includes message and purpose of the text.
• Write a reaction to a text that includes commentary on characters, setting, and plot.
3. Evaluate and analyze the effective use of literary devices unique to each genre.
• Close read text to focus on a specific literary device (diction, syntax, figurative language) to discover how these devices influence meaning and purpose.
• Use specific annotations and organize information to reexamine a text. 4. Compare characteristics of genres, including those that overlap or cut across lines of genre classifications.
• Read a variety of genres on a given theme and brainstorm the characteristics of the genres.
5. Compare and contrast texts to convey a specific purpose or argument pertaining to a variety of literary elements or devices.
• Analyze various prompts that include specific literary elements or devices.
Suggested Assessments • Teacher generated tests • Teacher and/or student generated rubrics • Lexile/SRI evaluations • Accelerated Reader • SpringBoard Diagnostic Assessments • SpringBoard Embedded Assessments • Class discussion • Literature circles
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• Use graphic organizers to show relationships between texts. • Write a compare/contrast essay demonstrating knowledge of basic literary
elements.
Suggested Resources • SpringBoard Level Senior
Unit 3 “We Didn’t Start the Fire” Unit 3 “ Tracin g a Character”
• Prentice Hall: The British Tradition Analysis of literary theme p. 29, 265, 271, 997, 999 Satire p. 513, 515, 518, 520
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ENGLISH IV CURRICULUM MAP WRITING PROCESS
UNIT/ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE:
Writing Process - • The student will use pre-writing strategies to
generate ideas and formulate a plan. • The student will write a draft appropriate to the
topic, audience, and purpose. • The student will revise and refine the draft for
clarity and effectiveness. • The student will edit and correct the draft for
standard language conventions. • The student will write a final product for the
intended audience.
PACING: Year Long
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
• Does the student clearly demonstrate effective use of each of the steps of the writing process? • Does the student formulate a thesis in order to create an effective argument based on his/her own experience and/or outside sources? • Does the student revise appropriately for convention errors in mechanics, usage, punctuation, and spelling demonstrating a mature command of language
and writing with support that is substantial, specific, relevant, and concrete? • Does the student produce a text that is focused, organized, well-supported, and grammatically correct?
CONCEPTS /CONTENT
LEARNING TARGETS/SKILLS BENCHMARKS KEY TERMINOLOGY
Students will use a multi-step process including prewriting, drafting, revision, and editing in order to produce an effective, precise, an aesthetically appropriate text according to purpose, audience, and occasion. Students will understand that writing is a process anyone
• Generate topics. • Prewrite information for a selected topic.
• Draft ideas from prewrite.
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LA.1112.3.3.1
Review previous terminology as appropriate.
• Authority • Capitalization • Ethos (Ethical
appeal) • Imperative mood
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can learn. Students will understand that drafts can be improved through revision.
• Revise draft for content specific information.
• Edit draft for writing conventions.
• Publish a polished document fluently.
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LA.1112.3.4.1 LA.1112.3.4.2 LA.1112.3.4.3 LA.1112.3.4.4 LA.1112..3.4.5
LA.1112.3.5.1
LA.1112.3.5.2 LA.1112.3.5.3
• Letter format • Logos (Logical
appeal) • Order of
importance • Paraphrase • Pathos
(Emotional appeal)
• Plagiarism • Primary source • Punctuation • Rhetoric • Secondary
source • Specificity of
support • Subjunctive
mood Note: See links to comprehensive lists of all terminology.
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
• Does the student clearly demonstrate effective use of each of the steps of the writing process? • Does the student formulate a thesis in order to create an effective argument based on his/her own experience and/or outside sources? • Does the student revise appropriately for convention errors in mechanics, usage, punctuation, and spelling demonstrating a mature command of language and
writing with support that is substantial, specific, relevant, and concrete? • Does the student produce a text that is focused, organized, well-supported, and grammatically correct?
Activities and Resources
Assessment
Activities/Strategies 1. Generate topic.
• Classroom discussion • Partnering • Personal experience • Research: newspaper, internet, etc. • Video idea generation • Journal writing • Quick Writes
2. Prewrite information for a selected topic. • Webs • Outlines • Clusters • Lists • Charts • Diagrams • Timelines • Story maps • Prompt analysis • Formulate thesis • Consideration of audience, purpose, message, voice, and genre
3. Draft ideas from prewrite.
• Write/word process with consideration to sentences and paragraphs. • Use teacher/student models .
Suggested Assessments • SAT • PSAT • In-class writing assignments • Timed writings • Grading on FCA’s (Focus Correction Areas - organization, support,
conventions) • SAT-like writing prompts • Class discussion • Peer conferences • SpringBoard Embedded Assessments • SpringBoard Diagnostic Assessments
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• Consider stylistic elements (syntax, diction, figurative language, etc.).
4. Revise draft for content specific information. • Guided revision – peers, groups, class, self-reflection charts • Focus Correction Areas (FCAs) • Organization strategies • Word choice (diction) • Sentence structure (syntax) • Elaboration strategies – FIRES, SIR, Snack-Meal-Feast, PIE • Stylistic elements (extended metaphor, analogy, symbolism, etc.) • Voice • Prompt analysis review
5. Edit draft for writing conventions. • Daily language practice (spelling, grammar, and mechanics) • Teacher modeling • Peer conferences • Student/teacher conferences • Focus Correction Areas (FCAs) • Textual formatting (graphics, tables, documentation)
Suggested Resources
• SpringBoard Level Senior Unit 4: “First Draft Peer Review” Unit 3: “Narrative Reliability”
• Prentice Hall: The British Tradition Prewriting p. 212, 214, 398, 400 Teaching Resources: Writing Models and Graphic Organizers on Transparencies Revising: “to create clear and logical organization” p. 1041
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ENGLISH IV CURRICULUM MAP WRITING APPLICATION
UNIT/ORGANIZING WRITING APPLICATION - PRINCIPLE:
• The student develops and demonstrates creative writing.
• The student develops and demonstrates technical writing that provides information related to real world tasks.
• The student develops and demonstrates persuasive writing that is used for the purpose of influencing the reader.
PACING: Year Long
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
• Does the student write in a variety of expressive and reflective form that incorporates a variety of literary and stylistic devices and rhetorical techniques? • Does the student synthesize information from a variety of sources to produce informational and expository text? • Does the student accurately and coherently assess the validity and reliability of a variety of sources? • Does the student properly attribute sources in an informational and or expository text? • Does the student write an essay using persuasive techniques to support an effective argument?
CONCEPTS /CONTENT
LEARNING TARGETS/SKILLS BENCHMARKS KEY TERMINOLOGY
Students will be able to write expository and reflective text Students will be able to write informational and expository text. Students will be able to write persuasive text.
• Write a narrative essay • Write an expressive text to purpose and audience. • Write in a variety of expository forms, • Record information from a variety of texts. • Write well-developed expository paragraphs. • Write a conventional business letter. • Write functional text for real world situations. • Complete work related documents. • Write a well-supported persuasive text. • Properly attribute sources in written text.
Creative LA.1112.4.1.1 LA.1112.4.1.2 Informative LA.1112.4.2.1 LA.1112.4.2.2 LA.1112.4.2.3 LA.1112.4.2.4 LA.1112.4.2.5
Grade 12 Review previous terminology as appropriate. Introduce new twelfth grade terms:
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Students will be able to literary, stylistic and rhetorical elements.
LA.1112.4.2.6 Persuasive LA.1112.4.3.1 LA.1112.4.3.2
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
• Does the student write in a variety of expressive and reflective form that incorporates a variety of literary and stylistic devices and rhetorical techniques? • Does the student synthesize information from a variety of sources to produce informational and expository text? • Does the student accurately and coherently assess the validity and reliability of a variety of sources? • Does the student properly attribute sources in an informational and or expository text? • Does the student write an essay using persuasive techniques to support an effective argument?
Activities and Resources
Assessment
Activities/Strategies
5. Produce a polished document. • Hand write or word process • Documents may include narrative, informative, technical report,
expository, persuasive, and critical analysis
6. Write fluently and legibly. • Quick Writes • Journal writing • Timed writing • Polished documents
Suggested Resources
• Write a Shakespearean sonnet on a contemporary theme. • Write an interior monologue from the perspective of a character in a text. • Write a creative piece (poem, short story, play) focusing on a period in
British literature. • SpringBoard “Preparing for the Show: The Writing Plan” Unit 6 • SpringBoard “Turning Facts into Narrative” Unit 5
Suggested Assessments
• SAT • PSAT • In-class writing assignments • Timed writings • Grading on FCA’s (Focus Correction Areas - organization, support,
conventions) • SAT-like writing prompts • Class discussion • Peer conferences • SpringBoard Embedded Assessments • SpringBoard Diagnostic Assessments
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ENGLISH IV CURRICULUM MAP COMMUNICATION
UNIT/ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE:
COMMUNICATION - • The student engages in the writing process and
writes to communicate ideas and experiences. • The student effectively applies listening and
speaking strategies.
PACING: Year Long
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
• Does the student use listening strategies to describe and evaluate fiction, drama, literary non-fiction, and informational presentations? • Does the student use fluent and legible handwriting skills? • Does the student effectively identify main idea and supporting details in order to analyze and evaluate non-print media messages and the effect on
individuals and society • Does the student articulate how factors such as content, bias, and the viewer’s past experiences influence his or her understanding of non-print media? • Does the student use volume, stress, pacing, enunciation, eye contact, and gestures in a formal or informal presentation to meet the needs of the audience
and topic? • Does the student use audience questions and comments to adjust needs based on the topic? • Does the student use details, illustrations, analogies, and visual aids to make oral presentations that inform, persuade, or entertain?
CONCEPTS /CONTENT
LEARNING TARGETS/SKILLS
BENCHMARKS KEY TERMINOLOGY
Students will improve their use of fluent and legible handwriting skills Students will gain an understanding of how to use listening, and viewing strategies effectively to determine purpose, audience, occasion, and message of the speaker. Students will gain an understanding of how to use
• Handwrite fluently and legibly
• Demonstrate effective listening skills and behaviors for a variety of purposes, and critically evaluate and analyze oral presentations.
• Understand the impact of volume, stress, pacing, articulation,
diction, and nonverbal behaviors in conversation and/or a presentation.
• Research and organize information to sustain a line of argument. • Use details, illustrations, analogies, and visual aids to create
effective oral presentations.
LA.1112.5.1.1
LA.1112.5.2.1 LA.1112.5.2.2 LA.1112.5.2.3 LA.1112.5.2.4
LA.1112.5.2.5
Review previous terminology as appropriate Viewing/Speaking
• Analogy • Articulation • Attitude • Audience • Bias • Diction • Impromptu • Main idea
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speaking strategies effectively in individual or group settings that are either formal or info rmal.
• Non-verbal clues • Occasion • Pacing • Persuasion
techniques • Prejudice • Propaganda • Purpose • Stereotype • Stress • Tone • Volume
Note: See links to comprehensive lists of all terminology.
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
• Does the student use listening strategies to describe and evaluate fiction, drama, literary non-fiction, and informational presentations? • Does the student use fluent and legible handwriting skills? • Does the student effectively identify main idea and supporting details in order to analyze and evaluate non-print media messages and the effect on individuals and
society • Does the student articulate how factors such as content, bias, and the viewer’s past experiences influence his or her understanding of non-print media? • Does the student use volume, stress, pacing, enunciation, eye contact, and gestures in a formal or informal presentation to meet the needs of the audience and
topic? • Does the student use audience questions and comments to adjust needs based on the topic? • Does the student use details, illustrations, analogies, and visual aids to make oral presentations that inform, persuade, or entertain?
Activities and Resources
Assessment
Activities/Strategies
1. Listening • Demonstrate effective listening skills and behaviors for a variety of
purposes, and critically evaluate and analyze oral presentations.
2. Viewing • Understand the impact of volume, stress, pacing, articulation, diction, and
nonverbal behaviors in conversation and/or a presentation.
3. Speaking • Research and organize information to sustain a line of argument.
• Use details, illustrations, analogies, and visual aids to create effective oral
presentations. 4. Technology Tools
• Use software applications incorporating clipart, charts, and tables. • Use sounds, images, and text to communicate information in a multi-media
presentation. Suggested Specific Activities:
• Oral reading of some class assignments • Drama games/role-playing related to literature assignments
Suggested Assessments
• Teacher-generated tests • Teacher and/or student generated rubrics • Class discussion • SpringBoard Embedded Assessments • SpringBoard Diagnostic Assessments
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• Participate in structured class discussion techniques, such as Fishbowl, Literature Circles and Socratic Seminars.
• Perform individual or group oral interpretation of poetry, fiction or drama. • Assess the presentations of peers using rubrics. • Listen to an informational presentation and take appropriate notes. • Create and deliver oral presentations using appropriate media. • View examples of mass media to analyze how film techniques are used to
shape the message (bias, prejudice, and propaganda).
Suggested Resources
• Springboard Level Senior “This Should Be in a Museum”: Unit 1 “Presenting the Show”: Unit 6
• Prentice Hall: The British Tradition “Analyzing Bias in News Media” p. 1304
“Slide Show” p. 1235
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ENGLISH IV CURRICULUM MAP INFORMATION AND MEDIA LITERARY
UNIT/ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE:
Information and Media Literacy –
• The student comprehends the wide array of informational text that is part of our day to day experiences.
• The student uses a sys tematic process for the collection, processing, and presentation of information.
• The student develops and demonstrates and understanding of media literacy as a life skill that is integral to informed decision making.
• The student develops the essential technology skills for using and understanding conventional and current tools, material, and processes.
PACING: Year Long
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
• Does the student research and organize information to develop and sustain a line of argument in a speaking situation? • Does the student use software and hardware to manipulate digital data to communicate information? • Does the student choose appropriate reference materials for a research task and evaluate them for validity and reliability? • Does the student organize, classify, and synthesize research information effectively? • Does the student communicate the results of research in a clear, well-supported and ethically documented product? •
CONCEPTS /CONTENT
LEARNING TARGETS/SKILLS BENCHMARKS KEY TERMINOLOGY
Students will gain an understanding of how to use software and hardware effectively to manipulate digital data to communicate information
• Use software applications incorporating clipart, charts, and tables. • Identify the issue or problem. • Develop a comprehensive, but flexible search plan and record
findings.
LA.1112.6.4.1
LA.1112.6.2.1
LA.1112.2.2
Review previous terminology as appropriate. Film
• Camera Angles
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Students will use a systematic and ethical research process for the collection, processing, and presentation of information.
• Evaluate the validity and reliability of primary and secondary
sources. • Organize, classify, interpret, and synthesize research information. • Communicate information clearly using an appropriate delivery
method considering purpose, audience, occasion and message. • Integrate a variety of oral, written, and technological skills. • Use correct internal and final documentation to avoid plagiarism
and understand the consequences of unethical research practices.
LA.1112.6.3.3
LA.1112.6.4.1
LA.1112.6.2.4
• Camera movements
• Editing techniques
• Lighting • Shots • Sound • Use sounds,
images, and text to communicate information in a multi-media presentation.
• Abstract • Authority • Citation • Ethos (Ethical
appeal) • Full text • Logos (Logical
appeal) • Parenthetical
documentation • Pathos
(Emotional appeal)
• Primary source • Secondary
source • Works cited page
Note: See links to comprehensive lists of all terminology
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
• Does the student research and organize information to develop and sustain a line of argument in a speaking situation? • Does the student use software and hardware to manipulate digital data to communicate information? • Does the student choose appropriate reference materials for a research task and evaluate them for validity and reliability? • Does the student organize, classify, and synthesize research information effectively? • Does the student communicate the results of research in a clear, well-supported and ethically documented product?
Activities and Resources
Assessment
Activities/Strategies
1. Identify the issue or problem. • Class brainstorm • Newspapers • Current events • Interviews • Video clips • Documentaries • Surveys • Books
2. Develop a comprehensive, but flexible search plan and record findings. • Generate questions. • Develop outline and choose a method of organization. • Develop a controlling statement (thesis) based on purpose. • Take notes. • Document sources.
3. Evaluate the validity and reliability of primary and secondary sources.
• Consider timeliness of source. • Examine source for ethos (credibility, trustworthiness), pathos (emotional
effect), and logos (logical presentation of information).
Suggested Assessments
• Teacher and/or student generated rubrics for documented papers and projects
• Teacher generated tests on terminology and techniques • WebQuest rubrics • SpringBoard Embedded Assessments • SpringBoard Diagnostic Assessments • Class discussions
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4. Interpret and synthesize research information. • Develop a GIST statement. • Use SOAPSTone organizer. • Use or create an appropriate graphic organizer. • Mark (annotate) the text. • Paraphrase information. • Write a summary.
6. Integrate a variety of oral, written, and technological skills to communicate information appropriately and effectively.
• Create a PowerPoint presentation. • Develop charts, graphs, and posters appropriate for purpose and audience. • Create commercials. • Write an advertising campaign. • Develop a first-person historical speech. • Create a photo essay. • Develop a documentary.
7. Use correct internal and final documentation to avoid plagiarism and understand the consequences of unethical research practices.
• Use a reputable resource for documentation. • Practice documentation techniques in groups. • Model (teacher) documentation. • Demonstrate types of plagiarism and other unethical research practices. • Utilize outside experts to clarify unethical practices and explain associated
consequences. Suggested Resources
• SpringBoard Level Senior Unit 5 Transforming Perspective from Novel to Film”: Unit 3 • Prentice Hall l Reading Informational Materials: “Position Statements” p. 246-249 Multimedia Report p. 1300-1303 • Brochure on an author
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