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Under the Influence: Language Fluency to Understand Propaganda

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Under the Influence: Language Fluency to Understand Propaganda

Unit Overview

UNDER THE INFLUENCE: LANGUAGE FLUENCY TO UNDERSTAND PROPAGANDA

  7th grade
  7 lessons
  Using a theme of understanding propaganda, students demonstrate active and critical listening behaviors, use an organized note-taking system, and effectively use visual and audio media to demonstrate and present their understanding of key concepts within a designated time limit.
  Specific strategies:  Note-taking, active and critical listening
  This unit consists of seven lessons.
  Handouts including graphic organizers
  Formative and Summative Assessment
  Glossary

Unit Plan: Lessons

Each session represents one 50-minute class period.  The entire unit should take about 10 days.

  What is the influence? Word HTML (with links to documents)
Are we under the influence?  A first look Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Are we under the influence?  A second look Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Script reading Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Creating the goods Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Ready, set, action Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Roll 'em Word HTML (with links to documents)

Summative Assessment and Scoring Guides:

The summative assessment(s) includes: 1. student performance event (creation and presentation of a commercial demonstrating fluency and using one or more propaganda techniques), 2. the teacher observation of listening behavior, and 3. a student written paragraph evaluating the success of a propaganda technique and justifying individual listening enjoyment of a peer commercial.           

Summative Assessment Commercial Evaluation Score Key
  Listening Behavior Score Key
  Exit Paragraph Score Key
 

PREVIOUS LEARNING

TARGETED LEARNING

FUTURE LEARNING

 

Demonstrates phonemic awareness

 

      R1D    Students will read grade-level instructional texts with accuracy, fluency and expression.

 

 

Students will read instructional texts at the next grade level with accuracy, fluency and expression.

 

Read 6th grade-level instructional text with accuracy and fluency.

 

LS1A   Students will justify their level of enjoyment.

 

 

Students will justify their level of enjoyment.

 

Identify and evaluate tone, mood, and emotion.

 

LS1A, LS2A      In discussions and presentations students will actively listen and record key words and concepts in an organized note-taking system.

 

 

Students will use clarifying strategies for understanding (e.g., questioning, summarizing and paraphrasing)

 

Demonstrate active listening behaviors.

 

LS1A    Students will listen critically to identify and evaluate propaganda techniques.

 

 

Students will recognize how colloquialisms and jargon reflect context, regions and cultures

 

Present using appropriate volume, tone, rate, fluency, and eye contact.

 

LS1B    Students will use active listening behaviors to accurately evaluate effectiveness of propaganda and level of enjoyment.

 

 

Students will continue to use active listening behaviors to respond to questions.

 

Explain various propaganda techniques.

 

LS2A    Students will use visual and audio media to present a commercial using one or more propaganda techniques within a designated time limit.

 

 

In discussions and presentations, students will use appropriate body language and incorporate media or