Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Family Oral History Interview

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

8

Overview

Students will listen to high-quality oral history recordings.  They will brainstorm open-ended questions to ask a family member.  They will record their interview with a family member and submit to the teacher.      

    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 8 - Media Arts

    AE17.MED.8.3

    Implement production processes to integrate content and stylistic conventions for determined meaning in media arts productions, demonstrating understanding of associated principles.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.MED.8.3

    Vocabulary

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

    Essential Questions

    EU: The forming, integration, and refinement of aesthetic components, principles and processes creates purpose, meaning and artistic quality in media artwork.
    EQ: What is required to produce a media artwork that conveys purpose, meaning, and artistic quality? How do media artists improve/refine their work?

    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 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
    Link to Resource

    CR Resource Type

    Learning Activity

    Resource Provider

    Casady Digital and Media Literacy
    Accessibility

    Accessibility

    Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles
    License

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