1. ELA 7 – 8
Q3, Week 3, Ms. Szilage

2. Evaluate the advantages or disadvantages of using different mediums (e
Evaluate the advantages or disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g. print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.
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3. LAFS Book: Evaluating Presentation Mediums
Quick Write: Try to recall a memorable event in American history that you’ve read about in school or on your own. What details do you remember?
List some examples of recent news events you’ve seen on TV or watched video of online. What do you remember most about the event?
The way we learn about events affects how we understand the information being conveyed. The various mediums we rely on for information have unique characteristics, and each has distinct advantages and disadvantages.
LAFS Book: Evaluating Presentation Mediums

4. Where do you go to get information on something that interests you
Where do you go to get information on something that interests you? Do you watch video presentations? Do you read articles?
When you watch a video about something that interests you, you get less information than when you read an article (online or print) about something.
Survey

5. A Tribute Something that is done to show respect or appreciation.
A tribute to a band or artist can be done in many ways. For example, tributes are seen on television shows or a CD of artists covering the band’s songs.
Read the lines above the chart on page 215.
Think about how each medium may or may not work to create your tribute.
A Tribute

6. Pros/ Cons: Print, Internet, or Multi-media
Make notes on the chart about your responses to choose a medium.
Choose a tribute to a local hero, favorite author, or a subject that you group members can agree upon.
Set your purpose: to inform, entertain, or persuade. Who is your specific audience? Brainstorm all content to be included.
Which medium did your group choose? Why?
Create a poster that includes all of the information above. Be prepared to share out to the whole group.
Pros/ Cons: Print, Internet, or Multi-media

7. 1) How well did you and your group mates understand the assignment?
2) What would you do differently?
3) If you had the opportunity to create a tribute again, how would you incorporate the use of medium to convey an idea?
4) Give some examples of how a medium can alter the way a person understand an idea/ topic.
Reflection/ Debrief

8. In- Class Assignment (Due F)
Analyze A Website Homepage
Visit an entertainment, news, or political Web site (it must be appropriate for class and cannot repeat what another student partnered pair is doing) and analyze the media elements used on the homepage. Is there video? How is the homepage organized? Is it easy for the first time visitor to figure out where and how to find information on the site?
Make notes as you examine the homepage to identify the media elements employed.
Write a two paragraph analysis of the homepage where paragraph one describes the media elements used and paragraph two evaluates the reasons or motives for using those elements.
In- Class Assignment (Due F)

9. Homework: Due Friday Research In A Hurry - >
Select a topic from the box to research.
Write one or two paragraph response to your topic. Use at least two media sources to find the answer, and list the media sources you used.
Be prepared to share with whole group.
Homework: Due Friday

10. Compare or contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium’s portrayal of the subject (e.g. how the delivery of a speech affects the impact of the words).
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11. LAFS Ready Book: Comparing Text to Other Media
Would you rather read about a sports event in the newspaper, listen to it on the radio, or watch it live or on TV? Why?
All of these mediums would tell key moments and players from the game and who won.
LAFS Ready Book: Comparing Text to Other Media

12. “The medium is the message.”
Quick Write:
Have you ever heard the phrase? What do you think it means?
The phrase was coined by Marshall McLuhan, a professor who was considered the world’s foremost expert in media theory.
The phrase meant that the medium through which information (the message) was delivered so strongly influenced the perception of the message that the medium and the message became the same thing.
“The medium is the message.”

13. Reading Under the Stars
Read a non-fiction text. Your options are from our classroom collection of public library books or from NEWSELA. You may use both options for your BINGO board. Be prepared for a student stamper on TH. Please remember that your BINGO boards MUST be completed by the end of the quarter for full points.
Reading Under the Stars

14. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address
Kennedy-Nixon debates marked the first time TV played a major role in American politics, and the first time voters were able to see candidates compete. 70 million people tuned in to watch, and voting time, half the voters said that the debates had influenced their opinion.
First, let’s read the chart. Consider the differences between reading a speech and seeing it presented.
At age 43, Kennedy was the youngest man ever elected president. To Americans, he represented a new, more youthful generation to lead the country. A hero in World War II, Kennedy was elected when both world politics and American culture were changing rapidly.
Kennedy’s Inaugural Address

15. BELL WORK: Paragraph Correction
Please write your paragraph corrections on a single sheet of paper. Re-write the paragraph with the corrections. Make sure to have all of the corrections accurate before turning in so that you can earn full points. We will review the answers as a whole group. All work to be graded goes into our file tray above the file cabinet. Thank you.
BELL WORK: Paragraph Correction

16. Benefits of Reading vs. Listening
Read page 198.
Examine the word choice and writing structure
Underline/ Write any phrases or ideas that make an impact on you as you read the excerpt.
Go to: to view the inaugural address.
- > Is the tone and volume and emotion what you expected?
- > Listen as if you were in the crowd.
- > Take notes on Kennedy’s facial expressions, his gestures, and how the crowd responded.
Benefits of Reading vs. Listening

17. What are the limitations? What would you suggest first?
How did Kennedy’s delivery affect the impact of the words? Did he emphasize the same things with his voice or with gestures that you felt were important when reading it? Did his delivery make you feel differently about what you were hearing?
Kennedy’s use of alliteration - > ”Same high standards of strength and sacrifice: and “lead the land we love:
“I do not shrink from this responsibility, I welcome it
Whether you are citizens of America or citizens fo the world
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge
What are the limitations? What would you suggest first?

18. In-Class Assignment – Due TH
Write a short (3-4 paragraph) speech about an issue you feel strongly about (the environment, school lunches, animal cruelty, etc.). Write the speech with the intent of delivering it to the class, and mark the speech to show what you would emphasize with your voice or gestures.
I will make copies of your speeches. We will read then on Friday.
In-Class Assignment – Due TH

19. Notes/ Rubric 1) What is the central idea of the speech?
2) What words/ phrases impact you as you listen/ read the speech? Why?
3) What suggestions would you make to the speech writer that may help to improve the speech?
4) How does this reading/ listening activity help you to understand our learning goal?
Notes/ Rubric