Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Where They're From: A Media Arts Project

Subject Area

English Language Arts
Arts Education

Grade(s)

8

Overview

In this lesson, an arts integration specialist collaborated with an English Language Learner teacher.  The students used a cloze activity to complete a poem about themselves.  They took photographs to accompany the poem.  They edited the photos using iMovie and recorded themselves reading their poem.  

    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 8

    ELA21.8.8

    Produce clear, coherent narrative, argument, and informative/explanatory writing in which the development, organization, style, and tone are relevant to task, purpose, and audience, using an appropriate command of language.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.8.8

    Vocabulary

    • Narrative writing
    • Argument writing
    • Informative/explanatory writing
    • Writing development
    • Writing organization
    • Style
    • Tone
    • Task
    • Purpose
    • Audience
    • Command of language

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • A narrative is a piece of writing that tells a story.
    • The purpose of argumentative writing is to convince the reader to take action or adopt a particular position.
    • Informative or explanatory text is a piece of writing that provides factual information that was gathered from multiple research sources.
    • The development, organization, style, and tone of writing will change depending on the writing task, the purpose of the writing, and the intended audience.
    • Formal academic writing should demonstrate an appropriate command of language.

      Skills

      Students are able to:
      • Produce clear, coherent narrative, argument, and informative/explanatory writings.
      • Identify the writing task, the purpose of writing, and the intended audience in order to appropriately adapt the development, organization, style, and tone of the writing.
      • Demonstrate command of the written language.

      Understanding

      Students understand that:
      • There are different genres of writing that serve various purposes.
      • The writing task, purpose, and audience should be considered in the development, organization, style, and tone of the writing.
      • Formal academic writing should display their command of the English language.
      English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 8

      ELA21.8.15

      Deliver ideas in an appropriate digital format with specific attention to subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and tone.

      Unpacked Content

      UP:ELA21.8.15

      Vocabulary

      • Digital formats
      • Subject
      • Occasion
      • Audience
      • Purpose
      • Tone

      Knowledge

      Students know:
      • Methods to deliver ideas in a digital format, such as speaking to defend or explain a digital poster, multimedia presentation, or video on an area of interest.
      • Strategies to determine the subject, occasion, audience, and purpose.

      Skills

      Students are able to:
      • Deliver a particular idea in a digital format.
      • Ensure that a clear subject and occasion are evident in digital writing.
      • Appeal to a particular digital audience.
      • Achieve an intended purpose and tone in a digital text.

      Understanding

      Students understand that:
      • To effectively deliver ideas in a digital format, they should ensure that the subject and occasion are clear; that a particular audience is targeted; that a clear purpose and tone are achieved.
      Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 8 - Media Arts

      AE17.MED.8.1

      Generate various ideas, goals, and solutions for original media arts products, applying focused creative processes through divergent thinking and experimentation.

      Unpacked Content

      UP:AE17.MED.8.1

      Vocabulary

      Creativity
      • Experimentation
      Collaborate
      • Roles
      • Jobs
      • Delegation
      Aesthetics
      • Beauty
      Design process
      Stylistic conventions
      • Theme
      • Unity

      Essential Questions

      EU: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
      EQ: How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?

      Skills Examples

      • List unusual ideas generated through experimenting with combining standard ideas for a media arts product. Choose one idea to develop based on identified artistic goals and justify the choice. Use improvisation develop a script/ storyboard for production.
      • In a group, apply given criteria for intent, resources, and context to critique the entire idea-to-presentation process of the group's media arts product proposal.
      • Outline a plan for a media arts product that serves as a PSA for a community organization, choosing stylistic conventions that support unity and theme.
      • Exchange copies of media arts products with a classmate. In the spirit of exploration and experimentation, modify and refine a product to purpose and audience for a different setting. Meet and explain choices in modifications.

      Anchor Standards

      Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
      Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 8 - Media Arts

      AE17.MED.8.5

      Apply concepts from across content areas and varied arts forms to create a single media arts production.

      Unpacked Content

      UP:AE17.MED.8.5

      Essential Questions

      EU: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
      EQ: How are complex media arts experiences constructed?

      Skills Examples

      • Create a media arts product that uses at least two art forms to teach a concept that applies to at least two content areas. For example, using music and dance to teach the concept of a timeline with BCE/CE from social studies and positive and negative integers in math.
      • Conceptualize an original idea for a media arts product and list the needed positions to complete the project. With guidance, work in a group to complete the project.
      • Create an original media arts product that use a combination of tools, styles, and techniques to overcome the limitations of time, money, equipment, and experience.
      • Select, organize, and present a media arts product to educate your class on the history of media arts.
      • Make a branding plan from which to distribute your media art product to varied audiences. For example, share on Vimeo, Instagram, and in a podcast.
      • After sharing a media arts product across varied social media platforms, take comments from the audience and make revisions, reflecting on personal growth and how the product affected audiences.

      Anchor Standards

      Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
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      Informational Material

      Resource Provider

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      The Institute for Arts Integration and STEAM
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