Facing Reality: Creating Documentaries About Important Social Issues
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- Aug 28 2010 4:04 PM
Matching // Celeste Higby
This resource was matched by a member of the Brokers of Expertise Standards Matching Team.
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- Original Source:ReadWriteThink
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Description
In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students explore social issues that are meaningful to them and create documentaries in which they share their information, thoughts, and impressions.
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Topics and Grades
Grade: 6 to 12
Topics: Arts, Media, & Entertainment, English-Language Arts, American Democracy, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, History-Social Science, Career & Technical Ed, Film & Video, Theatre, Reading Comprehension
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Matched Standards
ELA.11-12.LS.C.1.1 Recognize strategies used by the media to inform, persuade, entertain, and trans...
ELA.11-12.LS.C.1.3 Interpret and evaluate the various ways in which events are presented and inform...
ELA.11-12.R.CAGLAT.2.4. Make warranted and reasonable assertions about the author's arguments by using e...
ELA.9-10.LS.C.1.1 Formulate judgments about the ideas under discussion and support those judgments...
ELA.9-10.LS.ODOC.1.9 Analyze the occasion and the interests of the audience and choose effective verb...
ELA.9-10.R.CAGLAT.2.3 Generate relevant questions about readings on issues that can be researched.
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Grouping: Large Group Instruction
Teaching Method: Cooperative Learning; Brainstorming; Hands-on Learning; Discussions