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Identifying and Organizing Information / Media Messages

CURRICULUM

Identifying and Organizing Information / Media Messages

Unit Overview

IDENTIFYING AND ORGANIZING INFORMATION / MEDIA MESSAGES

11th grade
4 lessons

Students learn and apply reading strategies.  Students analyze, evaluate and synthesize messages in various media.  Students select and use an appropriate note-taking strategy to summarize a variety of information.
Specific strategies:  Problem-solve unknown words through context clues and affixes; summarize information with note-taking strategies
Handouts including graphic organizers
Formative and Summative Assessment
Glossary

Unit Plan: Lessons

The unit consists of ten 50-minute class sessions. 

Analyzing Unknown Words Word HTML (with links to documents)
Using Pre-Reading Strategies: Infer Word HTML (with links to documents)
Studying the Use and Effect of Media Word HTML (with links to documents)
Note-Taking Skills Word HTML (with links to documents)

 Essential Questions:

How can we determine the meanings of unfamiliar words?
What is inference and how does it help us to comprehend while reading?
What are elements of media?
What are some note-taking methods?

Summative Assessment and Scoring Guides:

 

PREVIOUS LEARNING

TARGETED LEARNING

FUTURE LEARNING

 

Students will be able to read and apply reading strategies and should have a working knowledge of affixes, roots, and context clues.

 

 

      R1C, R1E    Students will be able to develop and apply strategies to problem solve unknown words such as:

§         roots

§         affixes

§         context clues

R1G   The student will be able to utilize reading comprehension strategies such as:

§         videos

§         pictures

§         websites

§         artwork

§         plays

§         news programs

 

 

Students must be able to quickly comprehend the message of a text in order to be successful in post-secondary endeavors

 

Students will have knowledge of various media and will be able to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize messages in them.

 

 

  IL2A   Students will be able to analyze and evaluate the elements of messages projected in various media such as:

§         videos

§         pictures

§         websites

§         artwork

§         plays

§         news programs

 

 

Students should be better informed viewers and readers in order to be successful in post-secondary endeavors.

 

 

Students will be able to select and use an appropriate note-taking method to summarize information from a variety of sources.

 

 

W3B, W3D      Students will be able to summarize information clearly and concisely in a multi-paragraph text routinely using appropriate methods for note-taking

 

 

Students must be able to utilize note-taking and summarizing skills for post-secondary endeavors.