Imagery Assessment
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Objective(s):
The students will culminate their imagery unit with a comic strip. Utilizing all the skills they have honed to demonstrate an imagery heavy story about an important subject.
Overview:
Creativity replicating an image through shapes and composition.
Expected Lesson Duration:
Lesson is expected to last 2 days.
Interdisciplinary Connection(s) to Common Core
Preparing to Teach this Lesson:
- Comic strip creator app that students will download and use to create comic strips.
Student Handouts:
If desired, students may be given handouts for feedback during peer review.
Lesson Procedure:
Introduction/Gain Attention
- Daily Meme: The class will begin with an activity that will require students to write a brief story using an image displayed by the instructor.
Project
After the daily meme the students will add the comic strip creator app to their laptops
Each student will be assigned a topic to illustrate their opinion about making sure to include a catchy headline and tagline
Upon completion of the comic the students will submit their illustrations in for peer review
After the files have been reviewed all comic strips will be entered into a comic book for that class and will be archived for later use
Make sure peer review has been signed off by more than two peers:
Diversity
POV
Composition
Responsibility
Outcomes:
Combining all of the skills honed in the imagery unit into a polished final project which effectively displays the required components/skills, such as diversity, composition, etc.
Development of peer review skills
Identifying the major concepts present in multiple works (peer reviewing 2 peer’s comic strips and identifying necessary concepts)
Demonstrating the ability to give and receive constructive criticism
Content of Lesson
Acquiring Key Concepts: incorporating and utilizing all skills acquired during the imagery unit to produce an imagery heavy story.
Engaging in Experiential Learning: peer reviewing comic strips created by classmates, providing constructive criticism, and identifying concepts that were emphasized in class discussion within the work being peer reviewed.
Building Proficiencies: using skills developed thus far to create a unique imagery heavy story and reviewing classmates’ work while paying special attention to emphasized concepts such as diversity, POV, composition, and responsibility.
Connecting with STEM Professionals: view a video of a professional artist, filmer, producer, etc. working with comic strips or comics and discussing their work.
Assessing Learning: have students explain how they utilized individual skills gained throughout the unit in the creation of their comic strip. Students can also identify these skills being implemented or the presence of important concepts such as diversity, POV, composition, etc. in their classmates’ work.
Closure and Review
Reiterate the importance of storytelling in media
Explain the importance of diversity in the storytellers and writers due to experiences and how it shapes our stories.
Higher Level Thinking Skills Noted
Empathy
Creativity vs Catharsis “be soft on the people hard on the problem”
Relevance/Rationale:
The art and skill of storytelling that will be practiced in this class will help the students reasoning skills, cognitive constructive capabilities, and develop character. The creation of a narrative requires the student to develop a logical order from a sequence of events. In order for the student to develop a meaningful arrangement of events the student must begin to grow their narrative reasoning skills. These skills can evolve through the consumption and dissection of narrative literature, of a mixed medium. While developing their narrative reasoning skills the students should/ will become more empathetic to others, wise to deciphering the true purpose of the story, and become comprehensive thinkers of their own circumstances. The students are finally at the age in which they are beginning to construct their own narratives. We, as educators, want them to be exposed to a great diversity of narratives in order mature those narrative reasoning skills. The more developed their narrative reasoning skills are the more they get from a story (deeper perspective). The more advanced their skills, the more likely they are to rationalize why this character chose a particular path, place themselves in the characters shoes, and develop their own character.
Explorations and Extensions:
Ask the owner of the image about the subject and try to write a passage that honestly represents the subject.
Assessment Criteria for Success:
Content knowledge, student knowledge, and appropriate resources are aligned to instructional outcomes. Student learning will be assessed throughout the lesson via question responses and correlation to the project.
Students will have successfully met the outcomes when fundamental questions about the importance of storytelling and its role in imagery can be observed through their writing and reflections of their peers work. Also questions about their current disposition are taken into consideration when they see media should begin to arise. Also a fluid and respectful use of time, along with an essay that is fluid, easy to follow, and retains its essentials as an ELA.
Modifications/Accommodations and Access for All:
A simpler version of Imagery and storytelling is already prepared if there are students that need to re-review the information. Also, if students need an alternate assignment due to their personal disposition to the material, alterations will be easily made.
Implementation Feedback:
Students will receive feedback from their peers and instructor during peer review. Students can then share what they felt about the project with their instructor; as well as what they gained from it, how it could have better benefited them, etc.
Reflections:
To be completed upon the end of lesson.