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English I

Goal 4, Objective 4.03

Goal 4

The learner will create and use standards to critique communication.

Objective 4.03

Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print critical texts appropriate to grade level and course literary focus, by:

  • selecting, monitoring, and modifying as necessary reading strategies appropriate to readers' purpose.
  • identifying and analyzing text components (such as organizational structures, story elements, organizational features) and evaluating their impact on the text.
  • providing textual evidence to support understanding of and reader's response to text.
  • demonstrating comprehension of main idea and supporting details.
  • summarizing key events and/or points from text.
  • making inferences, predicting, and drawing conclusions based on text.
  • identifying and analyzing personal, social, historical or cultural influences, contexts, or biases.
  • making connections between works, self and related topics.
  • analyzing and evaluating the effects of author's craft and style.
  • analyzing and evaluating the connections or relationships between and among ideas, concepts, characters and/or experiences.
  • identifying and analyzing elements of critical environment found in text in light of purpose, audience, and context.

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“You're the Top!” Pop culture then and now
In an exploration of Cole Porter's song, “You're the Top!,” students write about present-day pop culture and learn about pop culture of the past. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Analyzing the purpose and meaning of political cartoons
In this lesson, students evaluate political cartoons for their meaning, message, and persuasiveness. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Analyzing the stylistic choices of political cartoonists
In this lesson, students learn terminology that describes comics and political (or editorial) cartoons and discuss how the cartoonists' choices influence the messages that they communicate. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Audio listening practices: Exploring personal experiences with audio texts
In this lesson designed to develop students’ involvement with media literacy, students keep a daily diary that records how and when they listen to radio, music (e.g., songs on MP3 players, podcasting), and other streaming media or archived broadcasts. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Blogtopia: Blogging about your own utopia
In this lesson, students study utopian literature, design a unique utopian society and publish an explanation of their ideal world on a blog. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Building Vietnam War scavenger hunts through web-based inquiry
After reading a book about the Vietnam War, students, working in small groups, adopt the perspective of members of a group involved in the war (e.g., soldier, nurse, doctor, photojournalist, TV reporter) and conduct Internet research to explore how that particular group was affected. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Computer Technology Skills)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
The comic book show and tell
In this brief authentic writing experience, students compose original comic book scripts using detailed, descriptive language and exciting dialogue. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Copyright infringement or not? The debate over downloading music
In this lesson, students investigate the controversial topic of downloading music from the Internet as part of a persuasive debate unit. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Critical reading: Two stories, two authors, same plot?
This lesson encourages students to read and respond critically to two different pieces of literature with the same title. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Decoding “The Matrix”: Exploring dystopian characteristics through film
In this lesson, students are introduced to the definition and characteristics of a dystopian work by watching video clips from The Matrix and other dystopian films. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Exploring language and identity: Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and beyond
Students examine Amy Tan's “Mother Tongue” and produce personal narratives that examine language and identity issues. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Exploring literature through letter writing groups
Working in groups, students will explore a work of literature by exchanging a series of open-ended letters. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Heroes are made of this: Studying the character of heroes
Students explore the qualities of heroic characters in various genres through small group discussion and comparative analysis of multiple works of literature. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Id, ego, and superego in Dr. Seuss's “Cat in the Hat”
In this lesson, students explore plot, theme, characterization, and psychoanalytical criticism using The Cat in the Hat. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Investigating names to explore personal history and cultural traditions
In this lesson, students investigate the meanings and origins of their own names in order to establish their own personal histories and to explore the cultural significance of naming traditions. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Literary parodies: Exploring a writer's style through imitation
In this lesson, students analyze the features of a poet's work and then create their own poems based on the original model. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Manipulating sentences to reinforce grammar skills
In this lesson, students manipulate sentences from books or magazines to learn grammar in context and review grammar rules. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Onomatopoeia: A figurative language mini-lesson
In this lesson, students are introduced to the literary device of onomatopoeia and explore how the technique adds to a writer's message. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Outside in: Finding a character's heart through art
In this lesson, students explore the idea of alienation by examining Edward Hopper's art and Raymond Carver's fiction. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Paying attention to technology: Exploring a fictional technology
This lesson asks students to complete a short survey to establish their beliefs about technology and then compare their opinions to the ideas in a novel that depicts technology (such as 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11–12 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE

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