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Unit 3: How we express ourselves
Unit 3: How we express ourselves
December 7th - January 29th
Central Idea: People create different ways to express and represent their reflections, feelings, ideas, and appreciation of the world.
Central Idea: People create different ways to express and represent their reflections, feelings, ideas, and appreciation of the world.
By the end of the unit my student will:
By the end of the unit my student will:
Create a VLOG to influence a change they want to see in their community or the world.
Student Agency
Student Agency
Voice: Acknowledging the responsibility to stick to their goal.
Choice: Being more organized in the classroom and station rotation.
Ownership: Holding each other accountable reflects on their subject goals and their plans to accomplish them.
Student Action
Student Action
Choose: A media topic/informational topic that the student believes has been manipulated to target specific audiences.
Act: Acknowledging the responsibility of being critical thinkers and identifying manipulated messages for a specific purpose.
Reflect: Making sure that the information they are researching about is reliable and not biased. Their final reflection shouldn’t be biased and should be well supported.
Key Concepts
Key Concepts
Function: The understanding that everything has a purpose, a role or way of behaving that can be investigated.
How does a VLOG or BLOG work?
How do the pictures and the text work together?
How have people adapted to living here?
How does the music you listen to or movies you watch affect your behavior?
Causation: The understanding that things do not just happen, that there are causal relationships at work, and that actions have consequences.
How do conflict and resolution shape society?
How has our society targeted you as an audience?
How do you respond to what you see or hear in the media?
Responsibility: The understanding that people make choices based on their understandings, and the actions they take as a result do make a difference.
What is our responsibility to the planet?
What is our responsibility to each other?
How do we know if our research is reliable information?
Why should we care about the past?
Related Concepts
Related Concepts
Cause and Effect, central idea, text features, organizational patterns of text, Problem/Solution, figurative language
Data (information), charts and graphs, fractions
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Summative Assessment Student Work
Summative Assessment Student Work
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