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Getting The Message [7th Grade], Vanessa Sanchez
Getting The Message [7th Grade], Vanessa Sanchez
Understanding by Design: Complete Collection
This unit will serve as an introduction to Advanced Contemporary Literacy in the seventh grade. ACL is centered on the forms of media and media’s purpose, message, and construction. Through the use of real world examples, students will begin to gain an understanding of media, what it represents and how they can interpret it beyond the surface.
Media Forms In Use [7th Grade], Salena Gonzales
Media Forms In Use [7th Grade], Salena Gonzales
Understanding by Design: Complete Collection
Advanced Contemporary Literacy is a new course at NEISD where each grade level's curriculum is designed around a different focus for the year to meet the needs of students who require or desire a challenge and change of pace from the traditional reading class. In seventh grade, the focus is Media Literacy, the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms-from print to video to the Internet. Media Literacy is essential to today's adolescents because, according the the Center for Media Literacy, it "builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well …