Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Skillful evaluation and critique are critical components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artworks.
EQ: How and why do media artists value and judge media artworks? When and how should we evaluate and critique media artworks to improve them?
EQ: How and why do media artists value and judge media artworks? When and how should we evaluate and critique media artworks to improve them?
Skills Examples
- Listen to a podcast or radio drama and tell the parts of the recording and the main idea of the program.
- Listen to a recording of a story and watch a video of the story. With help, make a Venn Diagram that compares how the two create different experiences for the audience.
- Watch and/or listen to a series of media arts productions, tell what is seen and heard. Share opinions of the productions by responding to teacher questions.
- Watch and/or listen to a series of media arts productions, tell what is appealing/ pleasing in each by responding to teacher questions. With prompting, tell changes that could be made.
Vocabulary
Components
- parts to whole
- message
- entertainment
- inform
- humor
- feelings
- reaction
- time
- audience
- place
- purpose
- information
- intent
- audience
- pleasing
- interesting
- not distracting
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
