Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Digital texts, such as online academic journals, social media, and blogs, have various subjects, appropriate occasions, intended audiences, purposes, and tones.
- A credible source is free from bias and supported with relevant evidence.
- Strategies to evaluate digital text based on a set of identified criteria.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify and analyze digital texts' subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of a digital text's subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- It is important to evaluate the credibility of digital text.
- Digital texts will focus on different subjects, be used on different occasions, are created with different intended audiences, have different purposes, and a variety of tones.
- The effectiveness of a digital text can be assessed by identifying its subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
Vocabulary
- Analyze
- Digital texts
- Evaluate
- Effectiveness
- Subject
- Occasion
- Audience
- Purpose
- Tone
- Credibility
